Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, published an article on his personal blog this week he shared his predictions about the future of artificial intelligence. Focusing on the cost, development potential and usage areas of artificial intelligence, Altman drew a very optimistic picture on this issue. According to Altman, the cost of using artificial intelligence will decrease 10 times each year. Moreover, as costs fall, the use of this technology will increase.

Sam Altman examples this prediction as follows: “The cost of using artificial intelligence at a certain level falls about 10 times every 12 months and lower prices lead to much more use. You can see this when you compare the token cost of the GPT-4 at the beginning of 2023 and the Token cost of the GPT-4O in the middle of 2024. During this time period, the cost fell 150 times per token. “

Sam Altman: As the resources increase, artificial intelligence will continue to develop

In the same article, Sam Altman also mentioned the predictions that the development of artificial intelligence will slow down. As it is understood from this blog post, Altman does not agree with this view. Because Altman says that they continue to get better results as they give more resources to artificial intelligence, and that this will continue even when they endure very big numbers.

“It seems that you can spend as much money as you want and make continuous and predictable gains in return, the scaling law confirms that this will be true even on very high scales.”

OpenAI needs to convince the sector that investments will not be unrequited

It is not a coincidence that Sam Altman published this article this week. On the one hand, Deepseek from China’s ability to compete even with the best artificial intelligence of OpenAI, on the other hand, said that the limit of the data that can be used to educate artificial intelligence is approached, and question marks about the potential of development and profit of this technology have emerged.

However, despite these question marks in the sector, not only the US, Europe and China continue to make giant investments in the field of artificial intelligence. Only more than $ 400 billion investment has been announced this week. Therefore, the names that lead this field like Sam Altman now have to convince both investors and the public that these investments are not in vain.

Because, although most of the investments come from the private sector, states now devote funds to this field. As a matter of fact, Donald Trump announced a few weeks ago that the US government would support the $ 500 billion Stargate Project. Likewise, France announced this week an investment of 110 billion dollars of artificial intelligence. In this case, there will be question marks that these investments may remain unrequited and artificial intelligence, such as OpenAI, is the last thing that companies want. This is probably the fact that Sam Altman is now writing such an article and providing everyone that artificial intelligence will continue to develop as he enlarges the resources.