OpenAI chief suggests AI agents will make their appearance this year. But can Europe cope?

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expects AI agents to enter the job market as early as this year. He writes that in a personal blog post. These AI systems can make independent decisions and act with purpose, making choices and performing tasks with minimal human intervention.

Since the launch of ChatGPT more than two years ago, AI has become easily accessible to everyone. Smart technology, but for now not yet able to think like a human. However, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, aims to develop technology that can eventually emulate many human tasks. While many experts believe this is still far in the future, OpenAI chief Sam Altman states in his blog post that they know exactly how to build this technology.

The technology to enable computers to think like humans is called AGI: artificial general intelligence, or artificial general intelligence. According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the first steps toward AGI have been taken. "We are now confident that we know how to build AGI as we traditionally understood it," Altman states. "We believe that by 2025, we will see the first AI agents enter the workforce and could substantially change the output of businesses."

Automation

AI is already being used in many industries today, mainly to automate processes. However, AGI will go a step further: it will be able to perform tasks and make decisions independently, without constant human guidance. These so-called AI agents will act as personal assistants to human workers, taking over administrative tasks such as calendar management or planning activities. Although they will independently perform specialized tasks, they will continue to act at the behest of humans.