Exclusive: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster -sources - Reuters
( Nov 23, 2023 12:56 AM; Reuters )
Description: "Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers sent the board of directors a letter warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters."
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Given vast computing resources, the new model was able to solve certain mathematical problems, the person said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on behalf of the company. Though only performing math on the level of grade-school students, acing such tests made researchers very optimistic about Q*’s future success, the source said.
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Friday - Altman was fired from OpenAI.
Saturday & Sunday - The board was in talks to bring him back.
Monday - Altman was hired by Microsoft.
Tuesday - The board was out at OpenAI, and Altman was rehired.
Now, today, Reuters is reporting that in the runup to all this drama, OpenAI's secretive Q* ("Q star") project may have demonstrated the ability to perform mathematical learning, understanding, and reasoning; and may, therefore, be much closer to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) than anyone had suspected.
Personally, I'm skeptical that it's anything approaching AGI, but I guess anything is possible.
- h/t Elon Musk
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"The destruction of humanity," considering what’s going on in the world today, there wouldn’t be much humanity left to destroy, or, to put it another way, worth saving.
I'm always skeptical of apocalypse claims, anyway. People have been predicting the world's end for thousands of years, and so far every prediction has been wrong. I guess someone might get it right sometime, but the odds are not in their favor. 😉 (I'm always skeptical of big advances in anti-aging for the same reason... just another iteration of the "Fountain of Youth".)