Humanity could be close to successfully building an artificial super intelligence, according to Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and one of the faces of the AI boom. "In some big sense, ChatGPT is already more powerful than any human who has ever lived," Altman wrote in a blog post Wednesday. OpenAI backer Microsoft and its rivals are investing billions of dollars into AI and jockeying for users in what is becoming a more crowded landscape.
