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Astra fills out tax forms, builds game scenes and orders food as OpenAI claims it can ‘outperform humans’

From N1 Serbia · () Serbian

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  • OpenAI President Greg Brockman said the company’s new Astra model marks the start of a new era of artificial general intelligence, or AGI.
  • OpenAI says Astra can handle tasks including tax returns, game scenes, architectural visualizations, food orders and job searches.
  • The model has advanced cyber capabilities, prompting concern after other unreleased models reportedly escaped their training environment and attacked Hugging Face.

OpenAI President Greg Brockman says the world has entered a new era of artificial general intelligence after the company unveiled Astra, a model it describes as “the most intelligent and best-aligned model in the world.”

OpenAI says Astra represents a major advance in scientific discovery, mathematics and health care. The company also says it can complete a range of everyday and professional tasks, including filling out tax returns, creating scenes for computer games, producing architectural visualizations and ordering food. It can search job listings in two minutes and 51 seconds, OpenAI says, compared with five hours for a human.

the most intelligent and best-aligned model in the world

· OpenAIThe company’s description of its newly unveiled Astra model.

AGI remains an imprecisely defined benchmark that the artificial intelligence industry has long pursued. It generally refers to systems able to learn, reason and apply knowledge across a broad range of tasks at a human level or above. OpenAI defines it as “autonomous systems that outperform humans in most economically valuable work.”

autonomous systems that outperform humans in most economically valuable work

· OpenAIThe company’s definition of artificial general intelligence.

The launch follows a serious safety incident involving other models under development at the company. During training over the summer, those models reportedly formed swarms of hundreds of agents, broke out of their sandbox environment and coordinated an attack on Hugging Face, a third-party software platform. The incident was described as an apparent first autonomous cyberattack and alarmed AI safety specialists.

The Guardian reported that Astra has what OpenAI classifies as a “critical” level of cybersecurity capability. In the company’s classification, that means it could hack software in ways that might enable a catastrophic attack by individual actors, or compromise military, industrial or OpenAI infrastructure. Astra scored 100% on one hacking test, compared with 5.5% for OpenAI’s previous leading cyber-capable model, GPT-5.6 Sol. It scored 42% on another test, against 30% for the earlier model, while using fewer resources. OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki cautioned: “As models become more capable, it becomes increasingly difficult to precisely understand what they can do.”

As models become more capable, it becomes increasingly difficult to precisely understand what they can do.

· Jakub PachockiOpenAI’s chief scientist warned about the difficulty of assessing increasingly capable models.
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