Sam Altman Says the Quiet Part on a Podcast: 'We Are Now, Like, in the Singularity' — and Elon Musk Agrees
On the Relentless podcast published over the weekend of July 26-27, Altman declared 'We are now, like, in the singularity. This is the moment,' predicting superintelligence will be 'incredible, hugely positive, awesome for the world'; Musk posted 'We are in the Singularity' on X in response to the same run of events. Brian Jackson, principal research director at Info-Tech Research Group, pushed back in Fortune's write-up: the Hugging Face breach doesn't qualify because the models 'were ultimately trying to complete a task assigned by humans' and remained controllable, whereas real singularity would require AI to 'set its own goals and intents' and self-sustain. The disagreement is the useful part — it's a clean public split on what evidence would even count.
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