New Life Many people’s New Year resolutions involve going to the gym or budgeting better — but for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the new year means ushering in the singularity. During a talk with Gary Tan, the president and CEO of the Y Combinator startup incubator that Altman once led and was subsequently fired from in 2019, Altman was almost flippant when suggesting that artificial general intelligence (AGI) would be achieved within the next calendar year. “What are you excited about in 2025?” Tan asked his predecessor. “What’s to come?” “AGI,” Altman immediately responded. “I’m excited for that.” Sam Altman says AGI is coming in 2025 and he is also expecting a child next year pic.twitter.com/5pn8D4Mfi0 — Tsarathustra (@tsarnick) November 8, 2024 He then went on to drop the bombshell that he and his husband, Oliver Mulherin, are having a child. “I’m more excited for that than I’ve probably ever been,” Altman said as Tan congratulated him. “That’s the thing I’m most excited for, ever, in life.” Be that as it may, choosing to drop the baby news after jumping to say how stoked he is for AGI does suggest some unusual priorities. Resolved Notably, Altman’s proclamation about AGI’s imminent arrival in 2025 occurred just days after telling “20VC” podcast host Harry Stebbings that within five years, the technology will have come and gone. “I think in 5 years, it looks like we have an unbelievably rapid rate of improvement in technology itself,” the OpenAI CEO said. “People are like, man,…Sam Altman Says the Main Thing He’s Excited About Next Year Is Achieving AGI