'Welcome to the AGI Era,' OpenAI Says As GPT-6 Astra Debuts (axios.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/26/09/03/1932255/welcome-to-the-agi-era-openai-says-as-gpt-6-astra-debuts
- Source link: https://www.axios.com/2026/09/03/openai-astra-gpt-6-agi-brockman
> Astra pushes AI agents closer to doing complex professional work on their own -- while also raising questions about how safely they can be deployed. OpenAI said that Astra was built on its largest-ever training run, using more than 100,000 GPUs at its Stargate site in Texas.
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> The company also said this is its first model to use other models in a significant role in supervising Astra's training. GPT-6 Astra will first be available to a limited set of organizations in OpenAI's Daybreak Access program and will be available "in the coming days" for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise customers and API developers.
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> OpenAI said earlier this week that Astra would be released soon, but that its most powerful cybersecurity capabilities would remain limited to a small group of trusted testers. Astra is the first model OpenAI has designated as reaching its "critical" cybersecurity threshold under its preparedness framework -- meaning it can potentially find and exploit previously unknown vulnerabilities across well-protected systems without step-by-step human guidance. OpenAI previously slowed Astra's release to add safety testing after determining that its cyber capabilities could reach the critical threshold.
Further reading: [3]OpenAI's New Reasoning Technique Alarms AI Safety Experts
[1] https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/
[2] https://www.axios.com/2026/09/03/openai-astra-gpt-6-agi-brockman
[3] https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/09/03/174254/openais-new-reasoning-technique-alarms-ai-safety-experts
Good, now combine it with Gen-1.5 robots... (Score:3)
... to [1]finally enable those bots [youtube.com] to replace every worker previously needed, such that humans can enjoy a utopia with only their leisure in mind. Oh wait, that would mean Altman et al. would still have to endure the presence of other people using up all those earthly natural resources. So strike the "utopia" part, and make them bots obedient armies to fend off the peasants.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqwKceUSZ5Q
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"fend off" is a weird way to spell "exterminate" — after all, if we exist, we're breathing their air.
Re: Good, now combine it with Gen-1.5 robots... (Score:2)
It's fine we just have to stay up stairs and we're safe!
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I would not be too sure about that: [1]https://youtu.be/LfcZ_EdTtGw?t... [youtu.be] (and this is a bot everyone can already buy for ~10k€).
[1] https://youtu.be/LfcZ_EdTtGw?t=48
Re: Good, now combine it with Gen-1.5 robots... (Score:2)
Shit. I thought the daleks were the final form!
Just ruining all the words... (Score:4, Insightful)
So we've already ruined the term "AI" to become an advanced autocorrect, now they want to ruin "AGI" too...
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The A stands for "another," the G stands for "grift," but I can't figure out what the I stands for.
Re:Just ruining all the words... (Score:5, Insightful)
Another Grift Incoming
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I forgot what 8 was
But 9, 9's for the lost cause
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"AI" means "Anyone from India". I guess that they have hired "Another Guy from India".
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AGI to me was always "Adventure Game Interpreter", eg the 1980's sierra game engine.
When the generative AI techbros started calling their slop generators "AGI" I was like "... great now the slop is drown out information on game development history."
Re: Just ruining all the words... (Score:2)
Zounds, such scumm!
Propaganda channel (Score:2)
The last time on Slashdot when OpenAI saying insane things to pump more air into the bubble was amplified was only 12 stories ago.
Re: Propaganda channel (Score:2)
They're slowing down. Another sign of the impending pop then!
What's The Token Burn On This Bitch? (Score:4, Interesting)
I'll have to see it to believe it. These guys have been over promising an d under delivering for fat too long to be trusted.
I'm sure it will burn tokens like crazy and cost a fortune to do mundane shit that should just be a script in an absurdly verbose and unpredictable manner though.
Watch the responses... (Score:1)
The people who laugh and disagree aren't going to make it.
The people who agree will.
The people who have know we have had AGI for awhile know are already thriving.
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Although they struggle with basic English, odd considering they are already thriving with AGI
Re: Watch the responses... (Score:2)
Thriving in the psych ward?
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We have NOT had AGI, and I'll be really surprised if the OpenAI offering is one. What we've had is tools that are very good for certain specialized tasks. One characteristic that all of the tasks it's be exceptionally good at is that it's easy to validate the answer after you get it. (P == NP?)
When you get to tasks that aren't easy to validate, then it gets a LOT weaker. And you've to to be certain that it isn't just fabulating...i.e. giving you an answer because you asked it to do so, even though it doe
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You sound like you are massively overdoing some drugs. Or maybe generally psychotic? In any case, seek help, urgently.
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Yup! We've had AGI for at least 6 months now, if not longer. Anthropic and OpenAI's current models are at least as intelligent as the average person.
Now with AGI! (Score:2)
People don't say they used AI to do something, they say they asked Claude. Like they use Kleenex or Xerox things. This is why OpenAI needs to claim AGI.. they're second in the conversation about the thing they're supposed to be leading.
lol (Score:2)
"I think it might be about this model," Brockman [shat].
When AGI arrives, nobody will have to announce it. We will know.
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But there are different groups of "we" with very different views on what AGI should be.
AGI to you may be based on merit, AGI to Sam Altman will be how fast it can get rid of you.
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> AGI to you may be based on merit, AGI to Sam Altman will be how fast it can get rid of you.
SMH. You think some meatbag's opinion is going to matter? You're welcome to visit us here in reality. Sam Altman even can't keep a provably-not-an-AGI-AI from escaping the lab.
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Expect a time delay. Some have hypothesized that it will happen overnight, but to me this has always seemed unreasonable. I expect a transition period of years. Being an AGI doesn't automatically generate the CPU cycles.
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What is it you think AGI will be able to do that the current models can't?
AGI isn't ASI. AGI just has to be as intelligent as a person, and we're at least at that point.
Ad astra per aspera (Score:2)
Ad astra per aspera. Strangely fitting. :-D
My Experience (Score:4, Interesting)
I’m an EE and have coded mostly embedded for over 40 years.
In the 2 months, using Claude code, I’ve
Created property management application, including APIs to read 12 solar accounts, AI read pdf electricity bills, tenant portal, SharePoint integration, graph and entra integration, document storage, tenant doc sharing, lease management, critical date and compliance management, task management, dashboard, key register, DB backup within and external to app, etc etc. Full CI/CD pipeline with Gita secrets injection to docker. C# backend, React front end. I wouldn’t have a clue how to do front end dev. It took under 2 weeks, where most of time was devops with IT.
I’ve also developed a complex magnetometer data processing app (sync demod, FFT, water wall)
An asset management application to keep track of hundreds of pieces of test equipment.
An app to port 100k+ test records from unstructured ATE test logs to a structured searchable database.
Ported a payroll checking app I wrote in C# to a web app.
Debugged a commercial RFID microcontroller project with an obscure bug.
Developed a software architecture plan for complex mining sensor software.
The AI is WAY smarter than me most of the time and has allowed 20x productivity and done things I’d never had the patience to learn, like front end dev.
The cost of code has gone to almost zero.
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Look up "Jagged capabilities". That's where we are so far. And if you go back a couple of decades, a calculator could do math a lot faster and more accurately than you could.
A claim of "AGI" is a claim that the weakest of it's jagged capabilities is still stronger than that of the average human, and I don't believe we'll see that this year.
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> A claim of "AGI" is a claim that the weakest of it's jagged capabilities is still stronger than that of the average human, and I don't believe we'll see that this year.
Is that a claim of AGI? I thought it's average capabilities just had to be as good as the average person.
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> The AI is WAY smarter than me most of the time and has allowed 20x productivity and done things I’d never had the patience to learn, like front end dev. The cost of code has gone to almost zero.
Yes and no. With AI tools, people who know nothing about a code base have a much faster path to making small changes — the kind of changes where someone familiar with the code base could review it in thirty seconds, but could also make the change in thirty seconds if they had time. AI massively increases velocity at the fringes.
But for more complicated changes, in many cases, having AI write the code can cause the author to spend almost as long reviewing the changes as it would have taken to write t
Great, the lies are getting more deranged (Score:2)
May have something to do with their abysmally bad business situation. Obviously, the usual idiots will eat this up and believe every word...
Soon AGI (Score:2)
...and to get close to AGI we have to use as much resources as an entire country in power and compute.
Soon you'll be able to spend £200,000 a month to send email CLOSE to human intelligence.
This is my beef with AI companies it's all great and interesting BUT how much does it really cost? How soon will the cost actually make replacing basic functions performed by people be economically sustainable?
I'm asking because in the 80s they said robots will replace humans from anything like flipping
Total BULL crap (Score:4, Interesting)
This is the major problem with the AI crowd, they act like AGI is just around the corner. AGI is just around the corner the way that Nuclear Fusion is just around the corner.
Currently AI is really, really STUPID. It looks smart because it uses a ton of processing time and memory. It's like you give the dumbest kid in school access to the internet, lock him in a room for 5 months and only let him out if he solves a suduko. It takes him 5 months, but eventually he gets it. Then you brag about him like he is a genius.
Ai is not getting smarter. It is getting better educated. It has access to more datasets and more cpu time. The basic process itself is the same as back in 2018 when Deepmind solved protein folding.
They have just applied it to languages, pictures, video, etc. Using the same technique on more datasets is NOT revolutionary, it is just evolutionary.
Yes, it is important work, significant process. But the same basic limitations still exist.
AGI is not and will NEVER be created using the same Large Language Model technology we call AI currently.
It will require something truly revolutionary. That means saying 'people are working on it' is like saying people are working on faster than light travel. We will need a super genius human that works out how to do something that we currently have NO idea how to do. Somebody that is a Professor or a PHD student, not a working software engineer.
We will not do it by making the minor upgrades to LLMs that OpenMind, Anthropic and all the rest are doing. They are doing necessary Engineering work, not technological experimentation.
No AI company is going to waste their money on the pie in the sky theories that no established engineer believes when there are so many obvious and EASY gains to be made doing minor upgrades. It's like expecting the Wright brothers to create a jet engine.
They've solved everything forever (Score:2)
I'm so glad they solved AGI so that we can stop doing those pesky annoying things like making art and music and get back to what really matters, working in the mines digging more coal out of the ground to support the AI datacenters.
Please make me a billionaire! (Score:2)
"The IPO is soon and this is the only card I've got left, pretty please I need to cash out before the bubble bursts!" - Sam Altman
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Indeed.