Will OpenAI hint at [read description] or claim to have AGI by 2025 end?
Will OpenAI hint at [read description] or claim to have AGI by 2025 end?
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Waiting for the inevitable "No company in the history of ever has announced AGI, so base rates alone say this market should be 1%"
Jun 26
From OpenAI employee: [tweet]
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Jul 3
@cloudprism This is definitely a joke but maybe a small possibility it should count as "hinting at it".
Sep 26
Last week, DeepMind came out with a new paper called Levels of AGI: Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI (arxiv link) where they attempt to make the definition more concrete. They also discuss "levels" similar to how we have levels for autonomous driving: [image][image]I have my fair share of criticisms for how vague some stuff sounds here, but still, found it interesting enough to share here.
Nov 10
Significant for the market, I must mention that the board has been reduced from 6 to 4 members today. The remaining people (i dont know how safety pilled they are) will be the ones, as things stand, to define whether AGI has been achieved,
Nov 17
With the new board and greater Microsoft influence I am expecting the bar to claim AGI and cut off Microsoft's access to be higher.
Nov 22
Ok how about this? I think will unfold in the coming weeks. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/exclusive-sam-altmans-ouster-at-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-to-board-about-ai
Nov 23

OpenAI's original definition for AGI is as follows:

"By AGI, we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work."

  • This is the definition used for the purposes of evaluating this prediction unless there's a change proposed by the board (or another governing body of OpenAI with such permissions as to modify the charter) of OpenAI to this definition.

  • By "Hint at", it is meant that instead of a direct claim, OpenAI takes actions that were otherwise reserved for the special case of having achieved AGI. Since it is not possible to define something as intuitive as "hint at" apriori, I will judge that part subjectively, and am not going to trade in this market to avoid a conflict of interest.

    • "Hint at" could be understood as a weak claim to AGI by OpenAI's official actions or statements.

Here is a diagram illustrating the governance structure of OpenAI:

The following is a quote from the original post by OpenAI, OpenAI's structure:

Fifth, the board determines when we've attained AGI. Again, by AGI we mean a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work. Such a system is excluded from IP licenses and other commercial terms with Microsoft, which only apply to pre-AGI technology.

An action that would "hint at" OpenAI achieving AGI would be the exclusion of a specific state of the art AI system from IP licenses and other commercial terms with Microsoft while their partnership with Microsoft remains more or less the same structurally (although the composition might change).

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filled a Ṁ500 NO at 25% order1mo

Stargate vaguely implies a pretty slow timeline.

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bought Ṁ10 YES1mo

Hmmm interesting. After China released deepseek, it'll push OpenAI to pursue AGI even harder. I think, we'll have AGI around May.

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@OshaPermadi do you think they will claim to have achieved agi before june? at what probability. if you think it's likely i can create a market on it. basically need something that's publicly observable though, if they achieve it internally and keep quiet ab it we can't rly make a market on it

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bought Ṁ750 NO from 32% to 31% 1mo

Would the stuff about strawberries etc have counted positively for this in 2024?

(We now know the outcome was lackluster, but the hype was significant)

1mo

It would make sense to have the @mods who will resolve this question share their current thinking here.

Right now we're betting on how some mod will interpret how the creator and/or the (majority of?) traders interpreted the market. Or would have interpreted the market, had he/they known about the change in the agreement between OpenAI and Microsoft.

My take: This was supposed to be a proxy for "Does OpenAI think it created AGI", by using their agreement with Microsoft as a proxy. That agreement changed in a substantial way and I suppose this market would not exist in the alternative world where the current OpenAI-Microsoft agreement holds.

1mo

@Primer (The below is just my reading of the market description)

This was supposed to be a proxy for "Does OpenAI think it created AGI", by using their agreement with Microsoft as a proxy.

Agreed, except that it's not just the Microsoft contract, it's also the OpenAI charter itself.

That agreement changed in a substantial way and I suppose this market would not exist in the alternative world where the current OpenAI-Microsoft agreement holds.

Since it's defined in the OpenAI charter I don't think there's an issue with the agreement changing. Furthermore, see the part of the description about changing the definition of AGI:

This is the definition used for the purposes of evaluating this prediction unless there's a change proposed by the board (or another governing body of OpenAI with such permissions as to modify the charter) of OpenAI to this definition.

So if the definition changes, the new definition is what the market references.

1mo

@jack Thanks for your input!

Probably it would be nice to know how those hypotheticals resolve:

OpenAI claims "We achieved what we would consider AGI" AND profits <100B

No claim AND profits >100B

@Primer if they literally claim AGI then that's a clear yes. It's hint at or claim.

If they make profits > 100b but still don't take any specific action related to AGI clause that seems like a NO

bought Ṁ120 YES1mo

"We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it. We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents “join the workforce” and materially change the output of companies. We continue to believe that iteratively putting great tools in the hands of people leads to great, broadly-distributed outcomes."
https://blog.samaltman.com

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@WilliamK ai agents is not agi

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What did Jimmy Carter know about OpenAI? Jimmy Carter maybe is the last of the whistleblowers they needed to be handled by Altman. Now the AGI is coming. New year, new AGI!

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@CryptoNeoLiberalist I had no idea Carter was involved with OpenAI. Can you post a link with more info? Thanks

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Who resolves this if OP deletes account?

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I think this might count! They just brought on the ARC-AGI benchmark creator to announce that their new model, o3, beats human performance on the AGI benchmark. This seems very much like "hinting" that they have AGI.

opened a Ṁ5,000 NO at 50% order2mo

I think it's incredibly impressive but imo they just say it's human level in some domains and not enough domains for it to count as hinting? but yeah it's gonna be open to interpretation. NO limit order at 50%

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@Bayesian I bet no before, but I gotta admit it’s super cool we’re at the point where it’s open to interpretation or not if we’re gonna hit AGI. Would have imagined that would have taken a few more years.

"Hint at" has a very particular meaning in this market - read the description. It's still quite unclear, but as I understand it, the intent is to capture OpenAI directly or indirectly invoking the AGI clause in their charter and/or contract with Microsoft

2mo

@jack @Simon74fe having the creator of an AGI benchmark imply that there's a CHANCE that your model is AGI seems like a borderline hint, tbh, but I agree this might not yet meet the criteria described by the creator.

I also personally do not think this is AGI by any means, lol

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