The Breakthroughs Needed for AGI Have Already Been Made: OpenAI Former Research Head Bob McGrew
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A former OpenAI research head argues agents will be priced near the cost of compute and that core AGI concepts are already found, informing how you plan around AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → economics.
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pretraining — The first, biggest phase of building a model: training it on enormous amounts of text so it learns language, facts, and reasoning in general.
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
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