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.
i almost never comment on this sub but every time someone compares Ai to crypto i am reminded of this tweet by an OAI employee.
https://twitter.com/tszzl/status/1473156331297120256
I felt like I was having a stroke reading that tweet