Authors:

  • Thomas Wheeler

Excerpt

October 16, 2024, Opinion: "In only “a few thousand days,” artificial superintelligence (ASI) may be unleashed on humanity, according to artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. ASI, a capability exponentially beyond that of today’s AI, is software that gives machines “intellectual power beyond those of humans".  “A few thousand days” is the blink of an eye in technology time. It has been about two thousand days since Altman’s company introduced GPT-1, its first large language model, on June 11, 2018. Since then, the exponential increase in the ability of machines to “think” has exponentially decreased the time humans have to deal with the accompanying changes. "