I don't think ChatGPT does [replace Search]. But I think someday, an AI system could. More than that, though, I think people are just totally missing the opportunity if you're focused on yesterday's news. I'm much more interested in thinking about what comes way beyond search.

the stuff that I'm excited about for these models is that it's not like, “Oh, how do you replace the experience of going on the web and typing in a search query,” but, “What do we do that is totally different and way cooler?’”

I don't think we're super close to an AGI. But the question of how we would know is something I've been reflecting on a great deal recently. The one update I've had over the last five years, or however long I've been doing this — longer than that — is that it's not going to be such a crystal clear moment. It's going to be a much more gradual transition. It'll be what people call a “slow takeoff.”

I don't think any one company should own the AI universe out there. How the profits of AGI are shared, how access to is shared and how governance is distributed, those are three questions that are going to require new thinking.

I think the most important thing we do is to put these things out there so the world can start to understand what's coming. Of all the things I'm proud of OpenAI for, one of the biggest is that we have been able to push the Overton Window [Editor’s note: a model for understanding what policies are politically acceptable to the public at a given time] on AGI in a way that I think is healthy and important — even if it's sometimes uncomfortable.

Summarization has been absolutely huge for me, much more than I thought it would be.The fact that I can just have full articles or long email threads summarized has been way more useful than I would have thought. Also, the ability to ask esoteric programming questions or help debug code in a way that feels like I've got a super brilliant programmer that I can talk to.