the new OpenAI charter said—explicitly and matter-of-factly—that the lab was building AGI. Altman and Sutskever had seen both the limitations and the dangers of the current technologies, but their goal was a machine that could do anything the human brain could do. “OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI)20—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work—benefits all of humanity.
