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Leopold Aschenbrenner
Leopold AschenbrennerAuthor of "Situational Awareness" (2024), which argues AGI by 2027 is strikingly plausible; former OpenAI superalignment researcher.
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AGI by 2027 is strikingly plausible. GPT-2 to GPT-4 took us from ~preschooler to ~smart high-schooler abilities in 4 years. Tracing trendlines in compute (~0.5 orders of magnitude or OOMs/year), algorithmic efficiencies (~0.5 OOMs/year), and "unhobbling" gains (from chatbot to agent), we should expect another preschooler-to-high-schooler-sized qualitative jump by 2027.

Situational Awareness · Jun 4, 2024 · source · archived snapshot

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Normalized claim
AGI will have arrived by the end of 2027.
Confidence
medium (60%)
Deadline
due Dec 31, 2027
Resolution rule
Hit if by end of 2027 major labs and academies broadly recognise an AI system as matching human experts across cognitive tasks. Miss otherwise.
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Vote to see the crowd.
Your call

Locked at the deadline. No odds, no money — just your record.

More from Leopold Aschenbrenner

I make the following claim: it is strikingly plausible that by 2027, models will be able to do the work of an AI researcher/engineer.

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We're on the path to individual training clusters costing $100s of billions by 2028, requiring power equivalent to a small/medium US state.

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