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[D] Exclusive: Sam Altman's ouster at OpenAI was precipitated by letter to board about AI breakthrough (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by blabboy@alien.top to c/machinelearning@academy.garden

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According to one of the sources, long-time executive Mira Murati told employees on Wednesday that a letter about the AI breakthrough called Q* (pronounced Q-Star), precipitated the board's actions.

The maker of ChatGPT had made progress on Q*, which some internally believe could be a breakthrough in the startup's search for superintelligence, also known as artificial general intelligence (AGI), one of the people told Reuters. OpenAI defines AGI as AI systems that are smarter than humans.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altmans-ouster-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-board-about-ai-breakthrough-2023-11-22/

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[–] mwmercury@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (8 children)

What is happening with this sub? Where are all the good papers and real ML techinal discussions?

[–] fordat1@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Its worse than usual some of the explanations for ELI5 are stuff even the r/futurism folks that invade here would know

[–] rulerofthehell@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Dude, like 5 years ago I remember there were less than 20k people, now there are 2million+ subscribed unfortunately. Almost all subreddits with big numbers are normy hype trains :(

[–] DevSynth@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I've been spending the latter part of the year learning machine learning from scratch so as not to fit into that crowd

[–] otokkimi@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Did this turn into a default sub? I find it hard to believe over 2million people took the effort to find and subscribe.

[–] abbot-probability@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Kind of. I recently made a new account, and Reddit asks you for your interests, AI being one of the options.

[–] otokkimi@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! That helps me connect the dots. It's at least nice to know so many people express interest in ML.

[–] abbot-probability@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, although I'm sad we can't have both. I miss the place where I discovered and discussed ML research. Haven't found a good replacement yet.

[–] Limp_Tumbleweed1000@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yea this just popped up on my feed since I been following the OAI drama. First time seeing this sub recommended

[–] YanniBonYont@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

It was too smart for me when I joined. But yeah had no idea it was this big now

[–] PM_UR_PIZZA_JOINT@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Wow. I did not realize how fast this sub had grown. A decent amount of actual technical posts in the past too.

[–] rom-ok@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

AI is the new crypto. So you have ML bros who are clueless mouth breathers invading all of the original subs.

[–] limpbizkit4prez@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've been in this game for almost 12 years, I've never been more popular, but I hate that it's for this reason. I was listening to a talk the other day and the speaker really said something that resonated with me - Let's make ML uncool again. I feel like I just want to unclutter the airways