OpenAI CEO and marketing guru Altman is tweeting like crazy again.

First, he acted as an AI "riddler", giving the audience some ambiguous words.

"Approaching the singularity; It's not clear which side."

Many people take this as a sign that AGI is coming!

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Two hours ago, Altman wrote a long article of 4 or 5 thousand words: Reflection.

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Draw the main points of the passage (full translation is available below) :

• OpenAI has grown from scratch over the past nine years, going through many twists and turns and challenges as a pioneer "crossing the river by feeling the stones."
• In 2025, expect to see the first AI agents "join the workforce" and have a material impact on company output.

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Ultraman in the long article also cannot avoid looking back on his dark "palace fighting" past. These years have been the most rewarding, interesting, beautiful, tiring, and stressful of my life, and especially the last two years, the most unpleasant.

In addition, he also tweeted that the launch of $200 a month "big members" are losing money.

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So, let's go into Altman's long post and see what he has to say:

reflection

ChatGPT's second birthday is just over a month away, and we've now moved on to the next model paradigm, models capable of complex reasoning. The New Year is always a time for reflection, and I wanted to share a few personal reflections on my progress so far and what I've learned along the way.

As we approach AGI, it feels like an important time to take a look back at our company's progress. There's still a lot to understand, there's still a lot we don't know, and it's still early days. But we know a lot more than we did when we started.

We founded OpenAI nearly nine years ago because we believed that AGI was possible and that it had the potential to be the most impactful technology in human history. We want to figure out how to build it and make it broadly beneficial to all of humanity; We are excited to leave our mark on history. Our ambitions are extraordinarily high, and we are convinced that this work can benefit society in equally extraordinary ways.

At the time, few people cared, if any, because they thought we had no chance of success.

In 2022, OpenAI is still a quiet research lab working on a project tentatively called "Talking to GPT-3.5." (We're better at naming than we are at research.) We've been watching people use the API's playground features and know that developers really enjoy the process of talking to the models. We thought building a demo around this experience would give people some important insight into the future and help us improve the model to make it more secure.

We eventually called it ChatGPT and launched it on November 30, 2022.

We always knew in the abstract that at some point we would reach a tipping point where the AI revolution would start. But we don't know what that moment is. To our surprise, this was the moment.

The launch of ChatGPT started a growth curve we had never seen before - in our company, in our industry, and on a global scale. We're finally seeing the big payoffs from AI, and we're seeing more potential on the horizon.

None of this will be easy. The path will not be easy, and the right choice is not obvious.

Over the past two years, we've built an entire company around this new technology almost from scratch. There's no other way to train people except through practice, and when the technology category is brand new, no one can tell you exactly how to do it.

Setting up a company at such a fast pace, without adequate training, was a chaotic process. It's often two steps forward, one step back (sometimes even one small step forward, two steps back). Mistakes are corrected along the way, but when doing original work, there's really no manual or guide. When traveling at high speed through uncharted waters, it is an incredible experience, but also extremely stressful for all involved. Conflicts and misunderstandings abound.

These years have been the most rewarding, interesting, beautiful, exhausting, stressful years of my life, and especially the last two years, the most unpleasant. The strongest feeling is gratitude; I know that one day, when I'm retired and I'm sitting on our ranch, watching the plants grow and getting a little bored, I'm going to look back on the job I always dreamed of doing growing up and think it was really cool. I try to remember this every Friday, even though by 1 p.m., there are already seven problems.

A little more than a year ago, on a Friday, the biggest mistake of the day was that I was accidentally fired during a video call, and then after hanging up the phone, the board posted a blog about it. I was in a hotel room in Las Vegas. The feeling is almost indescribable, like a dream gone wrong.

Being publicly fired, without warning, began a frenzied few hours, followed by days of madness. The "fog of war" is the strangest part. None of us can obtain satisfactory answers as to what happened and why it happened.

I see the whole episode as a failure of governance led by well-wishers (myself included). Looking back, I certainly wish I had done things differently, and I wish I was more mature and thoughtful today than I was a year ago.

I also learned the importance of diverse perspectives and broad experience for boards dealing with complex challenges. Good governance requires a lot of trust and credibility. I am grateful that so many people have worked together to help OpenAI build a stronger governance system that allows us to pursue our mission of ensuring AGI benefits all of humanity."

My biggest takeaway is that I have a lot of people to thank: Thank you to everyone who works at OpenAI for choosing to spend their time and energy pursuing this dream, to our friends who help us in times of crisis, to our supportive partners and customers who trust us to help them succeed, and to the people in my life who make me feel like they care.

I am proud of the fact that we are back to work in a more cohesive and positive way. Since then, we've done a lot of what is probably one of our best studies. Our weekly active users have grown from about 100 million to more than 300 million. Most importantly, we continue to deliver technologies that people love and solve real problems.

Nine years ago, we had no idea what it would end up being; Even now, we can only know something. The development of AI has gone through many twists and turns, and we expect more changes in the future.

Some twists and turns are pleasant, others are difficult. It has been interesting to watch a series of research miracles happen, and many former doubters have become true believers. We've also seen some of our colleagues break away and become competitors. As companies scale, teams often rotate, and OpenAI scales very quickly. I think it's inevitable - every startup experiences large turnover as it reaches new levels of scale, and OpenAI is growing by orders of magnitude every few months. The last two years have been like ten years of normal company growth. When any company grows and evolves at such a rapid pace, interests will naturally diverge. And when any company takes the lead in an important industry, a lot of people attack it for various reasons, especially if they're trying to compete with it.

Our vision will not change; Our strategy will continue to evolve. For example, when we started, we didn't think at all that we needed to build a product company, we thought we were just going to do great research. We did not expect that we would need such a large amount of money. Now we have to build something that we didn't understand a few years ago, and there will be something new in the future that we can barely imagine.

We are proud of the work we have done so far in research and deployment, and we are committed to continuing to advance our thinking on security and benefit-sharing. We continue to believe that the best way to make AI systems safe is by gradually and increments pushing them out into the world, giving society time to adapt and co-evolve with the technology, learning from experience, and continuing to make the technology more secure. We believe in the importance of being a world leader in safety and alignment research and guide these studies through feedback from real-world applications.

We are now confident that we know how to build AGI as traditionally understood. We believe that in 2025, we may see the first AI Agent "join the workforce" and have a material impact on company output. We continue to believe that gradually putting great tools into people's hands leads to broad and positive results.

We are now beginning to turn our attention to what is truly superintelligence. We like our current products, but we strive for a bright future. With superintelligence, we can do anything. Superintelligent tools have the potential to dramatically accelerate scientific discovery and innovation far beyond what we could do alone, dramatically increasing abundance and prosperity.

Now it sounds like science fiction, kind of crazy, and even talking about it seems impractical. That's okay - we've been there before, and we can live with it again. We're pretty confident that over the next few years, everyone will see what we've seen and will realize how important it is to be careful and careful while maximizing broad benefits and empowerment. Given the possibilities of our work, OpenAI cannot be an ordinary company.

How fortunate and humbled to be able to play a role in this work.

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