Sam Altman, creator of ChatGPT, reveals the year in which the first major scientific discovery of AI will occur

For the CEO of OpenAI, the barrier right now lies more in reasoning capacity than in the knowledge and data needed to achieve a notable scientific accomplishment.

The emergence of artificial intelligence is reaching all areas, and of course, science is one of those where there is the greatest hope regarding an AI whose threat to different professional sectors is a daily concern.

The application of artificial intelligence in the scientific industry is the focus of companies like Google DeepMind in order to achieve the necessary tools applicable to research in the health field.

Step by step, progress is being made in a direction that, in the opinion of Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, will bear fruit with significant findings from artificial intelligence without having to wait decades for it.

Capacity for discoveries in 2027

Last Friday, August 8, Sam Altman attended the space that journalist Cleo Abram offers through her YouTube channel Huge If True, a platform for optimistic dissemination about science and technology where she seeks to show the friendlier and closer side of advances that may sound complex and distant on paper, but are being worked on to become part of the most immediate reality.

The conversation with Sam Altman, creator of the popular chatbot ChatGPT, who had launched his GPT-5 version the day before, touched on topics such as the future of work in the coming decades, the arrival of superintelligence, and when artificial intelligence will be fully capable of making its first major scientific discovery.

On this, Sam Altman first wanted to point out that there may be differences in what different people consider a significant discovery. He would say that most people agree it will happen at some point in the next two years.