The evidence so far suggests that lofty proclamations about AI doubling human lifespans and attaining superintelligence before the next Olympics are blustering attempts to woo more investors, says Alix Dunn, founder and CEO of Computer Says Maybe, a technology policy organization.

As expected, OpenAI has released its first autonomous AI agent, called Operator this week. Operator can act independently from you on your computer using a web browser doing pretty much anything that can be done in a web browser.

Indeed, AGI will most likely be able to reason, learn, and innovate in any task. It will also not only match but outperform humans in its cognitive capabilities – and the milestone might even be reached this year, as the eternal AI optimist, Open AI CEO Sam Altman argues.

OpenAI Inc. CFO Sarah Friar said the company had "a big breakthrough" around reasoning models in 2024. "We do internally feel that we have a path towards AGI," Friar told Bloomberg's Shirin Ghaffary.

The World Economic Forum, colloquially called "Davos" after the location at which it's hosted in the Swiss mountains, is a yearly meeting of elites.

Talk of AI agents is everywhere in Davos. AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio warned against them.

On Tuesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted that AI models may surpass human capabilities "in almost everything" within two to three years, according to a Wall Street Journal interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

The focus at the 2024 World Economic Forum will be U.N. chief António Guterres's speech, AI risks and Trump's trade tariff plans.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, and WEF founder Klaus Schwab meet the media at the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus ...

Updates: The 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum will convene under the theme - Collaboration for the Intelligent Age.

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The World Economic Forum (WEF) has served as a platform to address global challenges, yet 83% of its original delegates were men.