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Sam Altman revealed that he visited South Korea twice in the past six months and held fruitful talks with Samsung and SK Hynix during his most recent visit. When asked by Korean reporters at a meeting at the company's headquarters in San Francisco whether there were any plans for semiconductor cooperation with Korean chipmakers, Altman said he had visited South Korea in late February 2024 and met with executives from Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.firstAltman expressed this interest publicly to Korean journalists.firstThe public expression of interest came at an event organized by South Korea's Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises and Startups to promote collaboration between South Korean startups and OpenAI.
Altman said OpenAI's vision is to develop human-level AI, with human-like thinking, learning, reasoning and problem-solving capabilities. He noted that prominent figures in the field, including Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Jensen Huang, have predicted that the era of AI will arrive in five to 10 years. Although the company seems to prefer potential global partnerships, Altman said OpenAI is willing to reduce its efforts in developing general AI technology tolowest, and expressed its willingness to cooperate with established chipmakers such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.
Regarding GPT-5, the next version of ChatGPT, Altman expressed confidence in its performance improvements and hinted at advanced reasoning capabilities, but did not specify a release date. Industry experts expect GPT-5's reasoning capabilities to make significant advances, as shown in a recent demonstration of a humanoid robot developed in partnership with Figure AI Inc. that demonstrated accurate responses, including handing over an apple when asked to offer food and explaining the reasoning behind its choice.
In discussing the most anticipated aspects of the coming AI era, Altman mentioned scientific breakthroughs, highlighting the potential of AI models to accelerate these discoveries, which he believes is essential for continued long-term economic growth. Altman also expressed concern about the problem of AI learning faster than humans can generate data, highlighting the need for AI models with the ability to learn from limited data. But he predicted that "AI agents" that can understand human speech and perform tasks on behalf of users are still a long way off due to network capacity limitations.
OpenAI is currently the world’smaximumChatGPT is used by 100 million people a week, and its AI video generator Sora, which is expected to be released to the general public later in 2024, is expected to require more computing resources than ChatGPT.