We're all going to die.
Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's four days in exile, several staff researchers sent the board of directors a letter warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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The maker of ChatGPT had made progress on Q* (pronounced Q-Star), 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.
Edit: The linked /pol/ thread is kinda insane
Edit 2:
They're now trying to cover it up
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They have only just begun developing working, coherent LLMs and they're coming out with this?
It's a publicity stunt. The whole thing was probably a publicity stunt to drum up more investment money
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