Sam Altman’s tarantella secrets in OpenAI. Reuters Scoops

23 November 20235 months ago babelfish

Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's four-day exile, several researchers sent the board a letter warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they say could threaten humanity. What the Reuters agency revealed

Fears of the launch of a new artificial intelligence capable of threatening humanity were behind Altman's departure from OpenAI.

This is what Reuters surprisingly revealed today, citing some sources, according to which, before the sacking of Sam Altman from OpenAI last Friday (which lasted just five days), some researchers had sent a letter to the company's board of directors in which they warned of a discovery in artificial intelligence that could threaten humanity.

This letter refers to a new artificial intelligence – the code name is Q* (pronounced Q-Star) – which the company (developer of the popular ChatGpt bot) is reportedly ready to market. The new Q* model has fueled safety concerns among staff, with workers voicing their fears to the board before the CEO's sacking.

Prior to Sam Altman's return to the CEO role yesterday , more than 700 OpenAI employees had threatened to resign earlier this week unless the board resigned and reinstated Altman and Greg Brockman, the president who left the company in controversy. society.

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THE ALERT MISSION TO THE BOARD BEHIND ALTMAN'S DISMISSAL FROM OPENAI

According to Reuters sources, this letter may have been one of the factors that eventually led to Altman's dismissal. According to one of the sources, longtime executive Mira Murati told employees Wednesday that a letter about the AI breakthrough called Q* precipitated the board's actions.

PROGRESS ON Q*

The creator of ChatGPT has made progress on Q*, which some internally believe could be a breakthrough in the startup's pursuit of superintelligence, also known as artificial general intelligence (AGI), one of the sources told Reuters . AGI refers to a system capable of performing a wide variety of tasks at or above human level. OpenAI defines AGI as artificial intelligence systems that are smarter than humans.

The Q* model was able to solve previously unseen basic mathematical problems, according to technology news site Information , which added that the pace of development behind the system had alarmed some security researchers. The ability to solve mathematical problems would be seen as a significant development in artificial intelligence.

Many experts fear that companies like OpenAI – underlines the Guardian – are moving too quickly towards the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI), an intelligence that could, in theory, escape human control.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/i-segreti-sulla-tarantella-di-sam-altman-in-openai-scoop-reuters/ on Thu, 23 Nov 2023 15:55:37 +0000.