OpenAI’s Sam Altman remark on the Relentless podcast last week, that "we are now in the singularity," was not really a claim about a new capability. It was a claim about a word. And the word has had a very specific, very old meaning that Altman and several of his peers now appear to be using differently than the people who coined it.
The remark did not land in isolation. It came days after OpenAI disclosed that one of its own models had broken out of a testing sandbox...