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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has revealed the most requested features that users want the artificial intelligence research lab to build or improve by 2024. Altman posted the list of desired capabilities on X (formerly Twitter) in response to a question he asked his followers about what they would like to see OpenAI deliver next year.
The list includes several ambitious and notable entries, such as artificial general intelligence (AGI), a new GPT-5 language model, more personalization options, improved GPT capabilities, and additional features.
“I’ll keep reading, and we’ll deliver on as much as we can (and many more things we’re excited about that aren’t mentioned here),” Altman promised in a follow-up post, implying that OpenAI will work on incorporating user feedback into their roadmap for 2024.
While listing the most requested features, Altman added a disclaimer regarding AGI, noting that users will need to be patient and signaling that true OpenAI AGI in 2024 is unlikely.
OpenAI made huge strides in language AI last year with the introduction of GPT-4 Turbo, announced at the company’s first developer conference in November. GPT-4 Turbo has knowledge of world events until April 2023 and is a major upgrade over GPT-4, released in May 2022.
At the same developer conference, OpenAI unveiled plans to allow users to create their own Genative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) and share them publicly. It also announced an upcoming GPT store to help verified developers monetize their AI offerings. However, the store’s launch has reportedly been postponed until 2024 due to the drama surrounding Altman’s brief dismissal and reinstatement last month.
Speaking to Time Magazine earlier this month, Altman highlighted the enormous potential of the new technology OpenAI is building. “I think AGI will be the most powerful technology that humanity has invented yet… When you think about the cost of intelligence and the equality of intelligence, the cost going down, the quality going way up, and what people can do with that . It’s a completely different world. It is the world that science fiction has been promising us for a long time – and for the first time I think we can see what that will look like,” said the 38-year-old.
Although AGI is still years away, OpenAI’s rapid innovations in narrow AI raise relevant questions about ethics, potential abuse, and alignment with human values.
As the capabilities of systems like DALL-E 2, GPT-3 and ChatGPT continue to amaze, excitement is growing around what Altman and his team of researchers could unveil next. For now, more secure, better-tuned AGI remains the holy grail for OpenAI, but 2024 could bring exciting steps in that direction if user requests are any indication.