{"id":87484,"date":"2023-11-24T15:21:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T13:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=87484"},"modified":"2025-09-13T12:06:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T09:06:31","slug":"media-openai-board-warned-of-a-breakthrough-ahead-of-sam-altmans-ouster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/media-openai-board-warned-of-a-breakthrough-ahead-of-sam-altmans-ouster\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: OpenAI board warned of a &#8216;breakthrough&#8217; ahead of Sam Altman&#8217;s ouster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly before <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/openai-scandal-why-sam-altman-was-fired-and-how-attempts-were-made-to-reinstate-him\">the dismissal of Sam Altman<\/a>, OpenAI researchers warned the board of a major AI breakthrough that &#8216;could threaten humanity&#8217;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/sam-altmans-ouster-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-board-about-ai-breakthrough-2023-11-22\/\">Reuters<\/a> reports, citing anonymous sources.<\/p>\n<p>Sources described the employees&#8217; letter as one item in a long list of board grievances that led to Altman&#8217;s removal as CEO. In particular, the leadership feared commercialising the technology before its risks were defined.<\/p>\n<p>In an internal memo, the OpenAI board acknowledged the so-called project Q* (pronounced Q-Star). According to many employees, the development could be a breakthrough toward creating artificial general intelligence (AGI).<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI and Altman define AGI as autonomous systems that exceed humans in most routine and computational tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Q* currently can only solve simple math problems suitable for primary-school students, albeit using a vast amount of resources. Yet the company is confident that the technology holds substantial promise.<\/p>\n<p>According to OpenAI experts, mathematics is the frontier in the development of generative AI. Currently, neural networks are able to predict the answer to a question and attempt to fit it with some probability of error.<\/p>\n<p>Mathematical tasks require exact answers, so progress in this direction implies improved AI reasoning abilities.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike a calculator, which performs a limited number of operations, AGI can generalise, learn, and understand, according to OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p>According to one source, the company also had a dedicated group formed from the Code Gen and Math Gen teams. It allegedly studied optimisation and the possibilities of AI-model &#8216;consciousness&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, four days after Altman&#8217;s ouster, OpenAI <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/openai-reaches-agreement-to-reinstate-sam-altman-as-ceo\">announced<\/a> his return to the CEO post and a reshuffle of the board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly before the dismissal of Sam Altman, OpenAI researchers warned the board about a major AI breakthrough that &#8216;could threaten humanity&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1190],"class_list":["post-87484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-openai"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87486,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87484\/revisions\/87486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}