{"id":1209741,"date":"2023-12-08T07:45:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T12:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1209741"},"modified":"2023-12-08T07:45:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T12:45:04","slug":"the-real-research-behind-the-wild-rumors-about-openais-q-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1209741","title":{"rendered":"The real research behind the wild rumors about OpenAI\u2019s Q* project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/openai-math-apples-800x450-1.jpg\" alt=\"The real research behind the wild rumors about OpenAI&#x2019;s Q* project\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/openai-math-apples.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1440\" data-width=\"2559\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On November 22, a few days after OpenAI fired (and then re-hired) CEO Sam Altman,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/openai-made-an-ai-breakthrough-before-altman-firing-stoking-excitement-and-concern\" rel=\"\">The Information reported<\/a>\u00a0that OpenAI had made a technical breakthrough that would allow it to \u201cdevelop far more powerful artificial intelligence models.\u201d Dubbed Q* (and pronounced \u201cQ star\u201d) the new model was \u201cable to solve math problems that it hadn\u2019t seen before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reuters\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/sam-altmans-ouster-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-board-about-ai-breakthrough-2023-11-22\/\" rel=\"\">published a similar story<\/a>, but details were vague.<\/p>\n<p>Both outlets linked this supposed breakthrough to the board\u2019s decision to fire Altman. Reuters reported that several OpenAI staffers sent the board a letter \u201cwarning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity.\u201d However, \u201cReuters was unable to review a copy of the letter,\u201d and subsequent reporting hasn\u2019t connected Altman\u2019s firing to concerns over Q*.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989517#p3\">Read 64 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989517&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The real research behind the wild rumors about OpenAI\u2019s Q* project<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) On November 22, a few days after OpenAI fired (and then re-hired) CEO Sam Altman,\u00a0The Information reported\u00a0that OpenAI had made a technical breakthrough that would allow it to \u201cdevelop far more powerful artificial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1209741\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1209742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1209741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1209741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1209742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1209741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1209741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1209741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}