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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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[–] SoCuteShibe@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Man what happened to this sub? So many replies are whacky half-baked conspiracies.

For sure, Altman created AGI behind closed doors and a secret employee organization leaked it the board who then decided to orchestrate an elaborate fake firing of Altman to gain the attention of the world in what ultimately amounts to an epic 4D-chess marketing ploy to... Sell Q* subscriptions to the masses, who will be made irrelevant by it?

Okay.