Sam Altman has made his boldest prediction yet about when AI will surpass human intelligence.

Altman, always the AI optimist, has previously touted AI’s potential to someday outthink humans, but the technology’s past three years of progress since OpenAI kicked off the AI arms race with ChatGPT’s release has shown him this moment could come sooner rather than later.

“I would certainly say that by the end of this decade, by 2030, if we don’t have extraordinarily capable models that do things that we ourselves cannot do, I’d be very surprised,” he said in an interview with German newspaper die Welt .

The company’s newest AI model is already smarter than him, Altman added, and the future looks even more optimistic.

While AI may still not be able to do some things humans can do easily,

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