The tech world is bracing for the release of Ph.D.-level artificial intelligence that will be able to do complex human tasks, Axios reported Sunday.
The superagent breakthrough could happen in a matter of weeks and speculation is that it could be coming from OpenAI, according to the report. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is set to brief U.S. government officials on Jan. 30, Axios reported, adding that OpenAI staffers are “jazzed and spooked” by their progress.
The report comes days after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that AI could replace mid-level software engineers as early as this year.
"Over time, we'll get to the point where a lot of the code in our apps, and including the AI that we generate, is actually going to be built by AI engineers instead of people engineers," Zuckerberg said.
AI superagents will be able to do tasks from building out a new payment software to planning offsite retreats, including scheduling and travel arrangements, according to Axios.
"This will have huge applications for health, science and education," one AI insider told Axios, "because of the ability to do deep research at a scale and scope we haven't seen — then the compounding effects translate into real productivity growth."
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