OpenAI and Sam Altman have been within the information this previous week for numerous causes, together with the firing episode and the long-awaited return late Tuesday. Nonetheless, a brand new story unfolded right now after Reuters reported a letter written by researchers at OpenAI warning of a model new AI discovery, Mission Q* (or referred to as Q Star).
The newest Reuters report highlights this beforehand unreported AI breakthrough. This model new revelation additionally opens up the controversy about Altman’s intentions. It provides that the letter might be one of many elements that led to Altman’s firing.
What’s Mission Q*?
Based mostly on the restricted details about Mission Q* shared within the Reuters report, it seems Altman made a breakthrough within the firm’s lengthy quest for synthetic common intelligence (lengthy earlier than AGI). Altman’s weblog earlier this yr described AGI as “AI programs which are typically smarter than people.”
He additionally talked about how if AGI was efficiently created, it might assist uplift humanity by pushing the worldwide economic system. Nonetheless, Altman talked about the downsides of this superintelligence, “AGI would additionally include critical dangers of misuse, drastic accidents, and societal disruption.”
“As a result of the advantage of AGI is so nice, we do not assume it is doable or fascinating for society to cease its growth ceaselessly; as a substitute, society and the builders of AGI want to determine the right way to get it proper,” Altman mentioned in a weblog from February 2023.
In response to the Reuters report, Mission Q* might threaten humanity, reminding us of the Terminator motion pictures. It additional provides that the brand new mannequin that Altman labored on solved mathematical issues, and that is the place it will get fascinating.
Generative synthetic intelligence depends on mathematical fashions and is broadly a subset of machine studying. For AI to unravel a mathematical drawback is algorithmic because it follows a predefined answer path. To place some context, generative AI is presently primarily utilized in writing, whether or not it is writing emails for a selected want or how Gmail makes use of to foretell your subsequent phrase. The letter, despatched to the OpenAI board earlier than Altman was fired, highlighted the brand new AI’s capabilities and highlighted safety issues, which gave the impression to be a low precedence.
OpenAI acknowledged its workers about Mission Q* after the Reuters report. Nonetheless, the precise particulars of what this breakthrough in AI meant weren’t revealed.
To summarize this week’s episode on OpenAI, it took days for Sam Altman to be fired as CEO after which reinstated. In solidarity with the story of “OpenAI is nothing without its people”, a number of OpenAI workers threatened to stop after Altman’s sudden firing. Along with workers, Altman additionally obtained great assist from different executives resembling Greg Brockman, then president and co-founder of OpenAI. However after negotiations with the brand new board, Altman stepped again in as CEO.
Between being fired and being reinstated, Altman additionally had the chance to hitch Microsoft to steer a brand new superior AI analysis group.
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