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

submitted 1 year 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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[–] rulerofthehell@alien.top 1 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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