5 Steps to AGI. Is your school prepared?

Yesterday, Bloomberg published a "leaked" memo/presentation of OpenAI's 5 steps to AGI.

Many seem surprised, even shocked, but if you follow the AGI discussions and the publication of the technical papers and related announcements, this is no surprise.

We already have natural language chatbots (something many people said would never work). Reasoning abilities are growing, and the very first agents are already operating, even if not autonomously. AIs as innovators and organization operators are certainly possible, even probable.

K-12 schools and many universities are just starting to adjust to more and more sophisticated chatbots. But what's the plan for the next emerging levels?

We need to *prepare students* for this future, not just one where they (and their teachers/professors) converse with single, generic bots. That was so (early) 2023.

Instead, we need to prepare them, for example, to manage teams of research bots that will collaboratively research for them and assemble output. We need to help them to develop the skills to cooperate with bots and evaluate the output of other bot producers. We need to teach them how to build the best team of bots, the same way the best managers construct the best professional sports teams. We need to help them learn to build organizations of bots. We need to teach them to integrate both bots and humans into that organization so it functions with maximum efficiency and quality.

Teachers need to learn how to integrate teams of bots into their instruction to maximize learning.

An AGI-like world is the one some of our students will graduate into. All or nearly all the students we are currently teaching will graduate into levels 1-3.

This world is getting closer and closer every day.

It's not just OpenAI that is working on this, it's Microsoft (independently and with OpenAI), Google, Meta, Amazon, Safe Superior Intelligence, Tecnet (China), Mistrial (France), and many other companies and countries.

As Max Tegmark says, it's time to "Look up."

What are you doing to prepare your school and your students for an AGI-like world?

Are you helping your teachers prepare to teach in a world where multiple (likely hundreds) of bots are supporting instruction? The initial stages of that world are already here.