Sam Altman, AGI & Our AI Future

OpenAI's Founder Says They Basically Have AGI & Are Heading Towards Super Intelligence

Today on AI For Humans The Newsletter!
What Sam Altman’s Blog Post Tells Us About OpenAI
CES is delivering the weird as usual
And a new $3k AI device from Nvidia?
Plus, our can’t-miss AI feature of the week!

Welcome back to the AI For Humans Newsletter!

It’s 2025 now…did you actually think we’d slow down for the new year?

Yesterday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dropped a personal blog post with a few very specific morsels in it. Mostly, it was a mini-recap of the entire history of OpenAI (which btw, I just read this book if you want a nice little history of the current AI movement, I highly recommend it) but then got to this…

OpenAI Turns Attention To… SUPERINTELLIGENCE

This is both 1) a pretty big flex if true and 2) a significant signal to the rest of the AI industry and, to be honest, the entire world.

We’ve talked quite a bit about what AGI might mean for a company who achieves it first and how quickly that could lead to market dominance. But we honestly have no idea what it means to live in a world with Super Intelligence and that’s where everything gets weird.

Super Intelligence could mean a AI that has the intellectual horsepower of 1000 geniuses working 24/7 on the worlds biggest problems. Cures for cancer, endless clean energy, etc etc. However, it could also mean the most efficient capitalism machine ever built, corralling a lot of wealth for its creators and leaving a lot of normal people out in the cold. It’s going to be an interesting next ten years.

If you’re interested in learning more about different sorts of scenarios of how the world might go, I LOVE Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark. It’s a few years old and pre-dates the entire LLM boom but it gives you a sense of the change that Super Intelligence could actually bring.

We’ll also discuss this on the show this week — back at it’s usual time on Thursday!

-Kevin & Gavin

3 Things To Know

CES Is Here!
The year’s most unapologetic celebration of technology has arrived. Call us old fashioned, but we love it. They stuck with last year’s theme of we put an LLM on it. From LG & Samsung adding Microsoft Copilot to their TVs, to generative AI grills, AI streaming cohosts, your washing machine, and a robot vacuum that’ll pick up your socks. The good people at The Verge have a running thread of announcements here.

“Listen I don’t want no trouble”

Nvidia Unveils A $3k Personal AI Device
The headline keynote of CES, that of Nvidia and leather jacket enthusiast Jensen Huang, brought a raft of new GPU announcements, and this cute little guy. Don’t call it a Mac mini - It comes packed with 128GB of unified memory and is said to be capable of running AI models up to 200B parameters. Not quite enough grunt for frontier models, but plenty to support today’s mid-sized family sedan models.

Google Assembles A Team To Build The Matrix
Capturing every front yard domestic dispute with Street View wasn’t enough - Google’s putting together a World Modeling team. It’s a collection of real people (even a past co-lead of OpenAI’s Sora), building digital worlds, to solve real-world problems. Besides the obvious benefits this could offer to generative video models, the idea is it becomes a training ground for robotics platforms.

No doubt they were as excited by CES robotics announcements as we were. Among them the news Samsung will finally release their in-home robot, TCL teasing a Furby on a Segway, a 6 legged desk lamp, a cat to blow on your coffee, and a little furry companion that’ll hang out on your purse, creeping out the people around you.

Don’t ever change, CES

We 💛 This - The Monoverse

Forgive us this brief departure from technical advice as we introduce you to one of our favorite AI creators, NeuralViz.

This week’s release of Zorgop Knows All is a 2 minutes and 29 second exploration of an alien species’ arrival in rural Wyoming, and it’s peak AI theatre cinema.

It so perfectly captures the weirdness already possible with today’s AI, and goes to show just how exciting it is that AI is already unblocking talented people with creative stories to tell.

This video was part of a series dubbed “The Monoverse”. Find the full playlist on YouTube here.

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