OpenAI’s boardroom drama was barely resolved on Thanksgiving Eve last week when forums and news sites exploded in speculation at the implications of a scientific breakthrough that the company was reported to have made. A Reuters report suggested this discovery could “threaten humanity,” although our article was a tad more circumspect (you can read it here).
The bottom line is that the breakthrough enabled senior OpenAI researchers to build a model dubbed Q* (pronounced “Q-Star”) that could solve math problems it hadn’t seen before, a difficult task for existing AI models. That’s a big deal, for sure. But Gary Marcus, a NYU professor of psychology and neural science and founder who spoke alongside Sam Altman during the May Senate hearing on AI regulation, argued we shouldn’t get too worked up about it.
“Glad OAI had that breakthrough, ‘cause man things over at Bing are really humming along now…” he tweeted in reply to a screenshot of Microsoft’s OpenAI-powered Bing claiming that the continent of Australia doesn’t exist.
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