Altman said different people at OpenAI would give different answers, but that the rough consensus, to the degree there is one, was that it came together around the time of GPT-4, which he believed was around March 2023 while saying he might be wrong about the timeline.
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Internal consensus at OpenAI is not publicly documented.
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Sam Altman, “Altman said different people at OpenAI would give different answers, but that the rough consensus, to the degree there is one, was that it came together around the time of GPT-4, which he believed was around March 2023 while saying he might be wrong about the timeline.” (said 4 September 2026). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_7fa1051046ac, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_7fa1051046ac
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More factual claims by Sam Altman
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Mostly true
“not until 2020 did we train GPT-3, which was the first model that I think actually was over some threshold of usability.”
OpenAI trained GPT-3 in 2020, which Altman considers the first model above a threshold of usability.
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Resolved true
“that it is so capable that it is discovering new knowledge, doing science, able to add huge economic value, create entire pieces of complex software.”
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Mixed
“They now hallucinate a little bit.”
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Mixed
“They don’t do anything unless you ask, right?”
AI models such as ChatGPT do not do anything unless a user asks them to.
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Mostly true
“But in terms of figuring out what questions to ask or to work on something over a very long period of time, we are definitely not close to human performance.”
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