Did a new AI model lead to Sam Altman's dramatic firing?

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Recently, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sam Altman was suddenly fired by the board of directors of OpenAI, the company that developed ChatGPT.


A new report has now revealed the possible reason for this sudden dismissal.


According to the report, prior to Sam Altman's dismissal, several researchers had warned OpenAI's board that the company was working on a new and powerful artificial intelligence (AI) model that would replace humanity. Can be dangerous.



Sam Altman failed to inform the board of directors about this new AI model and was presumably fired.


In a letter to the board, the researchers called the AI ​​model Q-star and said the development would allow AI technology to surpass humans in a number of tasks.


It should be noted that on November 17, Sam Altman was suddenly fired by OpenAI's board of directors.


The company announced in a statement at the time that Sam Altman was being let go from his role because the board did not believe he was making wise decisions.


But it was not stated that this decision was taken on the basis of lack of confidence.


Several executives resigned in the wake of Sam Altman's firing, including Greg Brockman, the president and co-founder of OpenAI.


Later on November 20, Microsoft said that Sam Altman will lead a new team working on AI technology at Microsoft.


But on November 22, Sam Altman was reinstated as OpenAI's CEO, while the old board of directors was replaced by a new board.


What is Model Q Star?

Right now if you ask ChatGPT to solve a math problem, it has to use a huge database to decide how a human would answer the question.


This answer can be right as well as wrong.


But the Q-Star model is capable of solving math problems without the data being fed to it.


According to the researchers, QStar's math ability is still about the same as that of school students, but it has the potential to improve rapidly.


This may not seem like much, but the researchers said that this development indicates that AI systems can outperform humans in a variety of tasks.


If an AI system starts to do a job as well as humans, it raises the risk that all human jobs will be replaced by AI technology in the near future, he said.


The company has yet to respond to the report, but it appears to be the likely reason for Sam Altman's dismissal.