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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo and Dara Kerr

YOU WONT BELIEVE: It s missing something agi superintelligence and a race for the future - What They Never Told You

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OpenAI called its new GPT-5 model, which will power ChatGPT, a ‘significant step on the path to artificial general intelligence’. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

A significant step forward but not a leap over the finish line. That was how Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, described the latest upgrade to ChatGPT this week.

The race Altman was referring to was artificial general intelligence (AGI), a theoretical state of AI where, by OpenAI’s definition, a highly autonomous system is able to do a human’s job.

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