Openai Super Bowl and Grandiose Bloge Post advertising of Sam Altman

If you have been in one of the almost 40 million American households This was set up to the NFL Super Bowl Lix this year, in addition to watching the Philadelphic eagles that go to Kansas City’s chiefs, you may have caught an advertisement for Openai.

This is the company’s first advertisement of the company and cost a reported $ 14 million – In accordance with astronomical sums commanded by ads during the big game, which some come to see instead of football. SoThe era of intelligence.“

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kihb5peo_j0

While the ad reaction was mixed – I saw more praise and protection for her than criticism in my emissions – this clearly shows that Openai arrived as a major force in American culture and quite obviously strives to connect with a long family line of invention, Discovery and technological progress that took place here.

By itself, the advertising of the Openai Super Bowl seems to me to be a completely offensive and simple message designed to please the widest possible audience – ideal for Super Bowl and its large audience within demographic data. In a sense, he is even so smooth and incompatible that he is forgetting.

But combined with the CEO of Openai Sam Altman, published on his personal website earlier on Sunday, entitled “Three observationsAnd suddenly Openai’s assessment of the present moment and the future becomes much more dramatic and great.

Altman begins the blog post with a pronouncement of artificial general intelligence (AGI), Raison d’Otre on the founding of OpenAi and his constant efforts to release increasingly powerful AI models like the the Last Series O3S This pronouncement, like the Openai Super Bowl ad, also strives to connect Openai’s work, building these models and approaches AGI’s goal with the history of human innovation.

“Systems that begin to point to AGI*are entering the sight, so we think it is important to understand the moment we are. AGI is a poorly defined term, but in general, we mean that it is a system that can cope with increasingly complex problems, at human level, in many areas.

People are tools of tools with an inherent desire to understand and create, leading to the world is improving for all of us. Each new generation builds on the discoveries of generations before creating even more capable tools – electricity, transistor, computer, internet and soon AGI.“

A few paragraphs later, he even seems to admit that AI – as many developers and technology users agree – is just another new tool. Yet he immediately rolls over to assume that this may be a much different tool than each He has ever experienced in the world so far. As it says:

“In a sense, AGI is just another instrument in this increasing skeleton of human progress we build together. In another sense, this is the beginning of something that is difficult to say “this time is different”; Economic growth in front of us seems amazing and now we can imagine a world in which to cure all diseases, to have a lot more time to enjoy our families and to fully realize our creative potential.“

The idea of ​​”cure all diseases”, although it certainly likes – reflects something that is competing of the chief of technology Mark Zuckerberg of Meta seek to deal with his Chan-Zuckerberg initiative Non -profit medical research is a co -founder with his wife Prisicilla Chan. As of two years ago, the time offered for the Chan-Zuckerberg initiative to achieve this goal was up to 2100. But now thanks to the AI ​​progress, it seems that Altman believes it is achievable earlier, writes: “In a decade, everyone on Earth may be able to achieve more than can be achieved more than it can be today.”

Altman and Zuck are hardly one two high -ranking technological billionaires who are interested in science of medicine and longevity. Google co -founders, especially Sergei Brin, have made money for similar effortsAnd in fact, at one point there were (or) so many leaders in the technology industry who were interested in the prolongation of human life and the termination of the disease that in 2017, New York Magazine launched a gaming article entitled: “The pursuit of the silicone valley to live foreverS “

This utopian idea of ​​terminating the disease, and in the end, my death seems to be hubristic on the face of this – how many folklore stories and tales are there about the dangers of trying to cheat on death? -But it is equated with the larger techno-utopic beliefs of some in the industry, which are usefully grouped by critics and researchers of AGI Timnit Gebru and Emil P. Tores below the umbrella period TescrealAn abbreviation for “transhumanism, extrapianism, singularitarism, (modern) cosmism, rationalism, effective altruism and long -term plan”, in their document of 2023.

As these authors clarify, the progress veneer sometimes masks greater beliefs, such as in the inherent racial superiority or humanity of those with higher intelligence coefficients, specific demographics and ultimately provokes racial science and phrenology of more discriminatory discriminatory discriminatory and oppressive eras.

There is nothing to suggest in Altman’s note that he shares such beliefs, keep in mind … In fact, the opposite is more recently. He writes:

“The provision that the benefits of AGI are widespread is crucial. The historical impact of technological progress suggests that most of the indicators that interest us (health results, economic prosperity, etc.) to improve on average and in the long run, but increasing equality does not seem technologically determined and obtaining this right can To require this may require this to require this right of new ideas. “

In other words: he wants to ensure that everyone’s life is improving with AGI, but it is not certain how to achieve it. This is a commendable idea and one that may help the AGI itself, but for one thing, the most native and largest OPENAI models remain closed and own, as opposed to competitors like Meta Family on Llama and R1 of Deepseek, although the latter obviously has made Altman reassess the Openai approach of an open source community as He mentioned the recent separate thread of Reddit Ama. Perhaps Openai can start with an open supply more than its technologies to ensure that it is spreading worse for more users, more one?

Meanwhile, talking about specific deadlines, Altman seems to be designed that although the next few years have not been completely reworked by AI or AGI, he is more confident in the visible impact by the end of the decade 2035. As he says:

“The world will not change all at once; He never does it. Life will continue the same the same in the short term, and people in 2025 will spend their time in the same way they did in 2024, we will still fall in love, we will create families, we will get up It beats online, hikes in nature, etc. S

But the future will come to us in a way that is impossible to ignore and long -term changes in our society and economy will be huge. We will find new things to do, new ways to be useful for each other and new ways to compete, but they may not look a lot like jobs today.

Everyone in 2035 must be able to marshal (sic) intellectual capacity equivalent to all in 2025; Everyone must have access to unlimited genius to direct, but they can imagine. At the moment, there are many talents without the resources to express myself completely, and if we change this, the resulting from the creativity of the world will lead to huge benefits for all of us. “

Where does this leave us? Openai critics would say that it is more empty super, intended to continue crying investors with large Openai pockets like Softbank and put any pressure on AGI for some time.

But when I used these tools myself, I watched and report to other users and Sen, what they were able to achieve – such as writing sophisticated software in just minutes without much background in the field – I tend to believe that Altman is serious in his predictions and Hope in his commitment to equal distribution.

But keeping all the best models closed under a subscription package is no The way to achieve equal access to AGI – so my biggest question remains about what the company does under his guidance to ensure that he is moving in this direction, he is so clearly articulated and that the Super Bowl ad also celebrates S