Opinion: OpenAI o3 puts humans on notice with its intelligence
India TodayOn the internet, particularly on Twitter and Reddit, where such conversations are common, there is a statement that often appears nowadays: 99 per cent of people are walking around having no idea that the world is about to turn topsy-turvy. Just a day ago he said: “AI will ultimately render money meaningless.” The trigger behind Musk’s tweet was the arrival of the OpenAI o3 model. Looking at how AI has progressed in 2024 — Google Gemini 2, Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet, OpenAI o1 and o3 — even the most hardcore sceptics now believe that AI systems already do, or will soon, match humans in routine and structured tasks. In fact, systems like o3 in a couple of years might be able to deal with even highly technical — but logical and structured — problems that are currently handled by highly-skilled humans. Ilya Sutskever, the AI wizard who until May this year was chief scientist at OpenAI, tweeted cryptically last year that mere “intelligence” is losing its importance.