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The movie focuses on the chaotic events of November 2023, when OpenAI’s board fired Altman and he returned as CEO just days later. The story explores the power struggle and the people behind one of the most closely watched moments in the AI industry.

Garfield said he has never met Altman and approached the role through the script, interviews, court transcripts and other research.

The film has attracted additional attention because of its unusual journey behind the scenes. Amazon MGM Studios dropped the nearly completed movie after Amazon announced a $50 billion investment and partnership with OpenAI.

The decision came shortly before the film was expected to find a new distributor. Netflix, A24 and Focus Features subsequently passed, while Mubi has been pursuing the project, according to Variety.

The cast also includes Monica Barbaro as former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, Yura Borisov as former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever and Ike Barinholtz as Elon Musk.

For the AI industry, “Artificial” is notable because it brings one of the most consequential corporate stories in modern AI into mainstream cinema while many of the people involved remain active in the industry.

The film could offer Hollywood’s interpretation of how OpenAI’s leadership crisis unfolded.

Altman told me that OpenAI was “not quite yet” there, but that by the end of the year the company would have an internal system he would call AGI."

We did it friends.

And: OpenAI has already internally built autonomous AI researchersbased on its benchmarks. It's the well-known GPT Astra.

"Pachocki says the company has already met its internal benchmark for an automated AI research intern. Given an experimental idea, he says, Astra can implement it inside OpenAI’s code base, run the experiment, and return results, or take a paper and perform work that previously occupied a human researcher for a week."

Astra will have the biggest impact on knowledgework there is

"Astra would enable “persistent agents,” he explained—virtual colleagues toiling for sustained periods on tasks. But its biggest impact, he predicted, would come from people using it to discover new knowledge. “I expect this will be the first model where the model actually invents new things in a way that matters,” Altman told the group. “That’s a very AGI-like thing.”

We did it friends. The finishing line is within sight. This year will be the turning point. Forever.

I am so damn hyped.