Source: The American Prospect
by Bryan McMahon
“Last month, the tech world turned with rapt attention to one man, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, for the launch of the company’s new AI model, GPT-5. The atmosphere resembled the scientists waiting to see the first atomic bomb test at Los Alamos. GPT-5 was supposed to be another great leap forward toward the promised godlike telos of artificial general intelligence (AGI), a machine smarter than any human and possibly smarter than the sum of human civilization itself. But the release of GPT-5 was a dud. Despite being relentlessly hyped for years, the most significant part of the announcement was the release of a model router that dynamically selects the correct ‘level’ of computation power spent toward answering questions.” (09/04/25)
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-09-04-what-if-theres-no-agi/