AI Expert Says AGI Will Arrive December 2024

Alan Thompson is an AI expert who is closely tracking progress to AGI. His definition is: Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a machine capable of understanding the world as well as—or better than—any human, in practically every field, including the ability to interact with the world via physical embodiment. And the short version: ‘AGI is …

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OpenAI Hyperrealistic AI Videos and AI Video Generation for World Simulators

OpenAI Sora is a revolutionary text-to-video AI model that is a significant advance for artificial intelligence and real-world applications. It is capable of generating up to one-minute-long videos from textual prompts, maintaining exceptional visual quality. Sora utilizes a diffusion model to evolve videos from static noise into coherent visual narratives, setting a new standard in …

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GPT5 Will Be Much Smarter and Better in All Tasks than GPT4

OpenAI GPT5 has likely started its final training run. An earlier smaller run of a test version of GPT5 gave Sam Altman one of his top 4 feelings of a leap in AI capability. GPT5 will likely include the ability to explain in plain english all of the inference steps and for about 10,000 validation …

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General Intelligence Embodied in a Humanoid Robot

Machines with human-level intelligence should be able to do most economically valuable work. This aligns a major economic incentive with the scientific grand challenge of building a human-like mind. Here Sanctuary AIs CEO Geordie Rose and CTO Suzanne Gildert describe their approach to building and testing such a system. Their approach comprises a physical humanoid …

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OpenAI CEO Asking for Multiple Sovereign Wealth Fund Assets for New AI Chips

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is trying to raise $7 trillion for a massive AI chip company. This would need to tap all of the assets of multiple Sovereign Wealth Funds. If the funds were raised to make many new semiconductor fabs and design new chips, then this would mean multiplying the capital expenditure of TSMC …

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Nextbigfuture Weekly Video – AI and Humanoid Bots Will Disrupt Everything

The biggest items in the Nextbigfuture weekly video are the clear evidence of the growth of an even larger wave of AI and the expansion of AI impact with humanoid robots over the next few years. There will soon be the selection of the company to build the 6th generation US NGAD stealth fighter and …

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Will Meta Have a Zettaflop of AI Compute in 2024?

Mark Zuckerberg plans on acquiring 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to help Meta build a next-generation AI that possesses human-like intelligence. Zuckerberg mentioned the figure today as he announced his company’s long-term effort to develop an artificial general intelligence (AGI), or an AI that can learn and be used to perform a variety of tasks. By …

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