Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
  • Usernamealreadyinuse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    1 year ago

    Am I the only one who starts to get more nervous after these kind of snippets?!?

    Let’s face it, nothing is said properly, but if only 10% is true, the rest might come quicker than expected

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Before his triumphant return late Tuesday, more than 700 employees had threatened to quit and join backer Microsoft (MSFT.O) in solidarity with their fired leader.

    The sources cited the letter as one factor among a longer list of grievances by the board that led to Altman’s firing.

    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.

    Given vast computing resources, the new model was able to solve certain mathematical problems, the person said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on behalf of the company.

    Though only performing math on the level of grade-school students, acing such tests made researchers very optimistic about Q*’s future success, the source said.

    The original article contains 293 words, the summary contains 169 words. Saved 42%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

      • ubermeisters@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        They still make search engines you can use to figure things out that you dont understand. Look up Viral Marketing on an internet search engine if you honestly can’t fathom wtf i said

        • geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          Are you stupid? I said that because I’m a normal person on the internet and so the idea of being accused of running some viral marketing campaign for something or another sounded ridiculous, thus the “huh?”

          What kind of stupid people do you surround yourself by that your assumption was that I didn’t understand what viral marketing was?

          • ubermeisters@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            1 year ago

            consider that i wasn’t fucking talking to you in the first place; it was a rant to OpenAI/Sam Whatshisface, why the actual fuck are you so touchy though? i treated you like a dumbass because you’re being one by assuming I was talking to you, which is a dumbass move. Do you think every comment on every post you make is intended to be a direct line of communication to you, just because you are OP? If i wanted to trash talk you, I’d say

            OP you’re a fucking moron.

            and leave it at that.