Sam Altman says we are near the singularity, but not sure which side
haider1 · x · 2026-07-27
- Sam Altman’s six-word post — “near the singularity; unclear which side” — is being read as a signal that OpenAI sees the world as close to a singularity-like transition.
- The repost argues that Altman had already been asking which side of the singularity curve we were on before GPT-4.5 launched.
- It adds that GPT-4.5 was mocked for benchmarks, but some people viewed its Turing Test performance as a meaningful milestone.
- The overall framing is less about a product announcement and more about Altman’s public positioning on AGI progress.
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