OpenAI's Pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence Raises Hopes and Concerns of Human-Like AI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes AI like GPT-3 is bringing us closer to artificial general intelligence (AGI) that can match human cognition.

With ChatGPT, OpenAI has focused on developing AGI over narrow AI, pursuing AI that has intuitive understanding and can form opinions.

Some scientists report seeing sparks of human-like intelligence in modern AI chatbots like ChatGPT.

Altman aims for symbiosis between humans and AI, with each benefiting from the other's strengths in a post-AGI world.

Philosophical debates arise as AI advances, like whether intelligence requires consciousness and who shapes the "soul" of thinking machines.