According to one of the sources, long-time executive Mira Murati told employees on Wednesday that a letter about the AI breakthrough called Q* (pronounced Q-Star), precipitated the board’s actions.
The maker of ChatGPT had made progress on Q*, 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.
Paywalled snippets of https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-made-an-ai-breakthrough-before-altman-firing-stoking-excitement-and-concern
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_lG1SmaEAAAYip.jpg
“A demo of the model circulated within OpenAI in recent weeks, and the pace of development alarmed some researchers focused on AI safety.”
https://manifold.markets/ZviMowshowitz/is-the-reuters-story-about-openais
Purported Q* priors: https://twitter.com/mark_riedl/status/1727482512425820200 ie just https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/textworld/
Janus (of aidungeon fame) calling it: https://twitter.com/repligate/status/1676196989833289728
AID sort of ran RL multi-agent system at a scenario world scale.
Also, this https://i.imgur.com/EHvVKBz.png Timestamp detail (UTC): https://i.imgur.com/EqfnryB.png
(more context https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/181oe7i/openai_made_an_ai_breakthrough_before_altman/kadm3uh/)