Comment on CORRECTED EXCLUSIVE OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster -sources

5BC2E7@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• guitarsarereal@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  According to the article, they got an experimental LLM to reliably perform basic arithmetic, which would be a pretty substantial improvement if true. IE instead of stochastically guessing or offloading it to an interpreter, the model itself was able to reliably perform a reasoning task that LLM’s have struggled with so far.

  It’s rather exciting, tbh. it kicks open the door to a whole new universe of applications, if true. It’s only technically a step in the direction of AGI, though, since technically if AGI is possible every improvement like this counts as a step towards it.

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  • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I kina just realised that the two aspects of this. The LLM part and the basic maths part. Doesn’t this look set to destroy thousands of accounting jobs?

    Surely this isn’t far off doing a lot of the accounting work. Maybe even an app than a small business puts their info into it and that app keeps track of it for a year and then goes to an accountant that needs to look over it for an hour instead of sorting all the sit out for 10

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• Neato@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If they had a real breakthrough this circus wouldn't be necessary.

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• Benj1B@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The maker of ChatGPT had made progress on Q* (pronounced Q-Star), 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.

  Definitely seems AGI related. Has to do with acing mathematical problems - I can see why a generative AI model that can learn, solve, and then extrapolate mathematical formulae could be a big breakthrough.

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