According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, GPT-4 is by far the dumbest AI model that humans have to use compared to what's coming in the future.
During a recent appearance at Stanford University, Altman said that OpenAI's current AI models still have significant room for improvement. "ChatGPT is like mildly embarrassing at best. GPT-4 is by far the dumbest model any of you will ever ever have to use again," he said during an appearance at Stanford University.
The CEO believes that there will be much more powerful AI systems in the coming years, saying with a high degree of scientific certainty that humanity will have more advanced models every year.
"GPT-5 is going to be a lot smarter than GPT-4, GPT-6 is going to be a lot smarter than GPT-5, and we are not near the top of this curve," Altman said.
Developing such systems is expensive, but that doesn't worry Altman. "Whether we burn 500 million a year or 5 billion or 50 billion a year, I don't care. I genuinely don't, as long as we can, I think, stay on a trajectory where eventually we create way more value for society than that, and as long as we can figure out a way to pay the bills. We're making AGI, it's going to be expensive, it's totally worth it," he said.
Agents as the next evolution of AI
While Altman didn't provide a timeline for the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI), he told MIT Technology Review that he believes there will be several versions of AGI that are more or less suitable for certain tasks.
Altman sees intelligent agents as the killer application for future AI systems. These "super-competent colleagues" would know everything about a person's life, including emails and conversations, and could perform certain tasks on the fly, suggest solutions to complex problems, and ask questions when needed.
In the future, Altman believes that AI will not only generate better text, images, and video, but will also be able to perform real-world tasks, further integrating systems into people's daily lives.
According to Altman, this doesn't necessarily require new hardware, as the AI assistant could exist in the cloud - though many users would likely prefer a new device for it.
Altman is reportedly working with iPhone designer Jony Ive on new AI hardware, and OpenAI is said to be developing two agent systems that will automate entire work processes.
GPT-5 is reportedly in development and could be released as early as mid-year. It is expected to be significantly better than its predecessor, GPT-4. It is rumored that GPT-5 will support video generation in addition to text and images. If OpenAI follows the DALL-E approach with its AI video generator Sora, video generation could be integrated into ChatGPT.
