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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Pretty cool, the outcome of a true ai is pretty binary either we all die or we get a utopia.
I'm down for the coinflip.
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The coin lands on its side and we get an neurodivergent AI that just invents new anime girls and writes edgy fanfic and refuses to do anything else
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