Evidence receipt / prediction
Published · transcript-backedSam Altman: prediction
5 Nov 2025 Conversations with Tyler Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence - Live at the Progress Conference
“I was going to say, I don’t want to say GPT, whether it’s 6 or 7, but I think we will get to something where you will say, “This is not a long way to the very best, but this is like a real poet’s okay poem.”
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- Sam Altman
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- 5 Nov 2025
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…Not that good. It’s not what I want it for, so that’s not a complaint. My guess is, in a year, you’ll have some model that can write a poem as good as the median Pablo Neruda poem, but not the best. I was going to say, I don’t want to say GPT, whether it’s 6 or 7, but I think we will get to something where you will say, “This is not a long way to the very best, but this is like a real poet’s okay poem. ” In my view, there’s a big gap between a Neruda poem that’s a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10 and one that’s a 10. I’m not sure you’ll ever reach the 10. I think you’ll reach the 8.8 within a few years.…
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