Murati: Achieving Generative AI Models in the 21st Century with Asymptotically Free Intelligence

At the WIRED event in San Francisco on Tuesday, Murati said it feels doable right now. She told WIRED that she wasn’t overly worried about the recent talk in the industry that it was hard to develop a generative AI model.

“My guess is we will hit AGI sooner than most people in the world think and it matter much less,” he said during an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin at The New York Times DealBook Summit on Wednesday. “And a lot of the safety concerns that we and others expressed actually don’t come at the AGI moment. AGI can get built, the world mostly goes on in mostly the same way, things grow faster, but then there is a long continuation from what we call AGI to what we call super intelligence.”

Current evidence shows that progress will likely continue. “There’s not a lot of evidence to the contrary. Whether we need new ideas to get to AGI-level systems, that’s uncertain. I am quite confident that the progress will continue.

She worked on the Model S and Model X at Musk’s company. She was part of the team that helped manage services at OpenAI while the board wrestled with the fate of CEO Sam.