OpenAI
A few staff researchers warned the board of directors in a letter before to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four-day banishment about a potent artificial intelligence finding that they believed could endanger humankind.
The two sources claimed that before Altman, the poster child of generative AI, was fired by the board, the previously undisclosed letter and the AI algorithm were significant advancements. More than 700 workers had threatened to resign in support of their ousted boss, Microsoft (MSFT.O), before his victorious comeback late on Tuesday.
The sources identified the letter as one element in a wider list of board complaints that resulted in Altman’s termination, including worries about commercializing advancements before fully realizing the ramifications. Unfortunately, No copy of the letter was available for the media to examine. Additionally, requests for response from the staff member who penned the letter were not answered.
One of the persons added that OpenAI, which declined to comment, acknowledged a project dubbed Q* in an internal memo to employees and in a letter to the board prior to the events this weekend after being contacted by the media over the aforementioned claims. A representative for OpenAI stated that the communication, which was written by seasoned executive Mira Murati, informed employees of specific media reports without addressing their veracity.
According to some anonymous sources who spoke with the media, some at OpenAI think Q*—pronounced Q-Star—might represent a significant advancement in the company’s quest for artificial general intelligence (AGI). AGI is defined by OpenAI as autonomous systems that outperform humans in the majority of economically significant tasks.
The person, who spoke under anonymity because they were not authorized to talk on behalf of the corporation, claimed that the new model was able to solve some mathematical issues given its enormous computational capacity.
Despite Q‘s rudimentary math skills, the fact that it aced these exams gave researchers great hope for Q‘s future prospects.
Stated the anonymous source
Mathematics is seen by researchers as a frontier for the creation of generative AI. Answers to the same topic can differ greatly, and generative AI is now good at writing and language translation by statistically predicting the following word. However, mastering arithmetic, where there is just one correct answer, suggests AI might be more capable of reasoning like a human. Researchers in artificial intelligence believe this may be used, for instance, in new scientific studies.
AGI is able to learn, grasp, and generalize in contrast to a calculator, which is limited in the number of operations it can perform.
The sources stated that although the researchers did not name the specific safety issues raised in the letter to the board, they did highlight AI’s potential for harm. Computer scientists have long debated the threat posed by artificial intelligence (AI), including the possibility that these computers could conclude that it would be in their best interests to wipe out humankind.
Scholars have also brought attention to the activities of a group of “AI scientists,” whose existence has been verified by several sources. According to one of the participants, the group was investigating how to optimize current AI models to enhance their reasoning and eventually carry out scientific work. It was developed by integrating previous “Code Gen” and “Math Gen” teams.
Altman spearheaded the development of ChatGPT, which is one of the fastest-growing software programs ever, and he convinced Microsoft to provide the funding and processing power required to move the program closer to artificial intelligence.
Apart from revealing an array of novel instruments during a presentation earlier this month, Altman hinted last week at a global leaders’ gathering in San Francisco that he thought significant breakthroughs were imminent.
Now this is the history of OpenAI, the last time I had the opportunity to be in the room when we sort of push the border of discovery ahead and the curtain of ignorance back was only a few weeks ago, and being able to do that is the professional honor of a lifetime.
stated Altman during the summit on Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation.
