A prelude to internal fighting at OpenAI? Researchers send letter to board of directors revealing a powerful AI discovery that could potentially threaten humanity

Picture source: Oriental IC Rewrite: The picture source is Oriental IC, showing the photo of Sam Ultraman

The OpenAI "coup drama" that has experienced reversal and reversal has come to an end, but there is no peace within OpenAI.

On November 22, local time, according to Reuters, before CEO Sam Altman was fired, several researchers sent a letter to the OpenAI board of directors, warning that a powerful AI (artificial intelligence) ) found to be potentially threatening to humans.

According to sources, this warning letter and the AI ​​algorithm in it are considered to be the direct cause of Ultraman's dismissal, because he is a typical representative of OpenAI's internal push for AGI (generative artificial intelligence). In addition, this letter not only made the board of directors worried about the development of AI, but also caused dissatisfaction with Altman himself. However, the specific content of the letter is still unknown

Due to the inability to reach an agreement with some members of the board of directors on AI technology and security, Ultraman was suddenly dismissed, triggering a series of turmoil. After more than 700 employees threatened the company to resign and join Microsoft, Altman has made a triumphant return.

OpenAI announced in the middle of the night on November 21 that it had reached an agreement in principle for former CEO Altman to return to the company as CEO and a new board of directors composed of chairman Bret Taylor, Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo

Additionally, longtime OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati told employees on Wednesday that a letter about the Q* (pronounced Q-Star) AI breakthrough prompted the board to Dismissal action was taken.

OpenAI's progress on Q* has led some company insiders to believe that this may be their breakthrough in finding "super intelligence (AGI)." OpenAI defines AGI as "AI systems that are smarter than humans."

Although Q*’s math scores are only at the level of primary school students, the good performance on such tests makes researchers very optimistic about its future success, the source said.

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