What is Q-Star? OpenAI’s ‘mankind-threatening’ project that allegedly has a connection with Sam Altman’s removal

New Delhi: The unexpected removal of Sam Altman as CEO of OpenAI was one of the most shocking news of last week.

Although Sam was swiftly brought back to his position by the company just a few days later, the exact reason behind the company’s decision to sack him is still a matter of speculation.

Meanwhile, a recent report has revealed a shocking development by the company which is now being linked to Sam’s shocking layoff.

OpenAI Q-Star: A threatening technology?

The report talks about some inside sources who have claimed that OpenAI is currently working on a secret project Q Star which will provide them supremacy in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) as well as Artificial General intelligence (AGI).

It further claims that the Open AI’s under-development system (Q Star) will be so advanced that it will effortlessly outperform humans in most economically valuable tasks and might even because a threat to humanity in the coming future.

In the report, it has been mentioned that Sam Altman’s removal has something to do with the company’s revolutionary megaproject. It says that Sam was fired by OpenAI just 24 hours after a team of researchers warned the company’s board by writing them about the danger their new discovery (Q star) could cause to society.

What is Q-Star?

The sources and reports hint that Q-Star will be a next-generation AI-based system that will have the ability to perform and solve school-level mathematical problems.

However, unlike calculators, which have the limited ability to solve a selected set of mathematical operations, AGI like Q-Star will have the expertise and adeptness to learn, explore, and comprehend.

While this may appear as a minute thing to most people, the bigger picture behind this will definitely give you a shock and make you wonder about the future we are rapidly heading towards with each passing day.

 Q-Star to be more intelligent than any other AI?

The research and AI experts believe that any AI-related technology that is able to solve complicated mathematical equations will have to potential to become the next big thing in the coming future. This is because maths is the perimeter of generative Artificial intelligence development and the ability to solve mathematical problems demands much more reasoning capabilities.

Hence, any AI-based System like Q Star which will be capable of correctly answering math-related problems will be far superior to the present day’s generative AI which primarily focuses on translating and writing language by envisioning the next word with the help of statistics.

This means that Open AI’s Q-Star will resemble human intelligence and reasoning far better than other AI technologies available at the present time.

AI a threat to humans?

Although AGI tech like Q-Star might seem like a great leap in the field of AI, it also has some major drawbacks which are concerning the scientists. While informing OpenAI’s board about the potential risks and threats of systems like Q-Star, scientists also allegedly wrote a letter to the company.

While the exact points raised by the researchers in their letter are not known, there has been a long ongoing debate about how AI’s growth can become a major threat to humans.

A good example of this would be a possible error in the system of these highly intelligent machines which might make them believe that humanity’s destruction is their task.