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He thinks a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/sam-altman-says-helpful-agents-are-poised-to-become-ai-s-killer-function-sa54e3dhe og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sa54E3dhe.png og:image:alt: Sam Altman says helpful agents are poised to become AI’s killer function og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Sam Altman says helpful agents are poised to become AI’s killer function **[MIT Technology Review](https://daily.dev/sources/technologyreview)** · 2 min read · 11 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Sam Altman believes the killer app for AI is a super-competent colleague that knows everything about your life but doesn't feel like an extension. He thinks a new piece of hardware might not be necessary for this future, but it could still be beneficial. Altman is optimistic about finding a solution to the scarcity of training data. He believes there will be multiple versions of AGI and is uncertain about the role of computing power. Altman did not provide a specific answer about when GPT-5 will be released. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@orcdev** · 0 upvotes > First I read it "poisoned" 😂 ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#future](https://daily.dev/tags/future), [#hardware](https://daily.dev/tags/hardware) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/sam-altman-says-helpful-agents-are-poised-to-become-ai-s-killer-function-sa54e3dhe) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Sam Altman says helpful agents are poised to become AI’s killer function","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/sam-altman-says-helpful-agents-are-poised-to-become-ai-s-killer-function-sa54e3dhe","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/sam-altman-says-helpful-agents-are-poised-to-become-ai-s-killer-function-sa54e3dhe"},"datePublished":"2024-05-01T20:24:33.553Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T08:38:19.706Z","description":"Sam Altman believes the killer app for AI is a super-competent colleague that knows everything about your life but doesn't feel like an extension. 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