Axios: OpenAI’s “generational leap”

OpenAI’s “generational leap”
 
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OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra today, a model that OpenAI President Greg Brockman says may be remembered as the arrival of artificial general intelligence, or humanlike capability.

Why it matters: Astra pushes AI agents closer to doing complex professional work on their own — while raising questions about how safely they can be deployed, Axios’ Ina Fried reports.Driving the news: During a briefing today, Brockman told reporters he believes OpenAI has reached AGI, while leaving users to decide whether Astra meets that definition.

As to whether Astra could mark the arrival of AGI, he said: “I think it might be about this model.

He ended the briefing by saying: “Welcome to the AGI era.”

⏪ Catch up quick: Astra is the first model OpenAI has designated as reaching its “critical” cybersecurity threshold under its preparedness framework.

That means the model can potentially find and exploit previously unknown vulnerabilities across well-protected systems without step-by-step human guidance.

🥊 It remains to be seen just how well Astra can take on highly advanced tasks in the real world without making errors or raising fresh safety concerns.

OpenAI acknowledged that Astra was harder to monitor in evaluations designed to test whether it could evade oversight.Go deeper … Get Axios AI+.Disclosure: Axios and OpenAI have a licensing and technology agreement that allows OpenAI to access part of Axios’ story archives while helping fund the launch of Axios into four local cities and providing some AI tools. Axios has editorial independence.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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