OpenAI says chat bots will soon be able to perform human-level reasoning – Axios

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OpenAI researchers believe the company is closing in on building AI that can perform human-level "reasoning," per reports out of Bloomberg and Reuters.
Why it matters: AI experts disagree over whether today's large language models, which excel at generating text and images, will ever be capable of broadly understanding the world and flexibly adapting to novel information and circumstances.
Driving the news: OpenAI has internally shared definitions for five levels of artificial general intelligence (AGI), according to Bloomberg. An OpenAI document Bloomberg reproduced defines the levels:
State of play: At a company meeting last week, per Bloomberg, OpenAI leaders told staff their systems currently worked at level 1 but were "on the cusp" of achieving level 2.
Between the lines: Rumors of a major breakthrough at the company had spread widely in the days leading up to the OpenAI board's failed effort to oust CEO Sam Altman in November 2023.
Yes, but: Eight months later, OpenAI's latest product is a new version of ChatGPT, GPT-4o, that combines text and visual modes in new, advanced ways. Human reasoning remains somewhere on the horizon.
Catch up quick: OpenAI's mission is to "ensure" that AGI "benefits all of humanity," but descriptions of AGI have long been vague.
Zoom out: OpenAI's five-level AI ladder resembles similar schemes for understanding progress toward fully autonomous vehicles.
Fun fact: Neither OpenAI's nor Google's five levels make reference to the possibility that AI systems might become autonomous — able to act on their own initiative without human direction.
Our thought bubble: OpenAI, along with Google, Meta, Anthropic and other key competitors, is spending billions to "get to" AGI, so it's good that the company is devoting thought and care to defining what it means by that vague term.
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