Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodos weekly deep dive on whats been happening in artificial intelligence.
That breakthrough allegedly happened via a little known program dubbed Q-Star or Q*.
Frankly, the story sounded pretty crazy.
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Anotherreportfrom The Information largely reiterated many of the points made by the Reuters article.
So, yeah, what is Q-learning, and how might it apply to OpenAIs secretive program?
In general, there are a couple different ways to teach an AI program to do something.
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By and large, programs like ChatGPT, OpenAIs content-generating bot, were createdusing some form of supervised learning.
Q-learning is a subcategory of reinforced learning.
In RL, researchers treat AI agents sort of like a dog that theyre trying to train.
Programs are rewarded if they take certain actions to affect certain outcomes and are penalized if they take others.
In this way, the program is effectively trained to seek the most optimized outcome in a given situation.
What does this all have to do with OpenAIs supposed math breakthrough?
The MIT Technology review reported:
Researchers have for years tried to get AI models to solve math problems.
Language models like ChatGPT and GPT-4 can do some math, but not very well or reliably.
Question of the day: Seriously, what the heck happened with Sam Altman?
I totally get why people want an answer right now.
But I also think its totally unreasonable to expect it, the rebounded CEO said.
However, this narrative is just that: a narrative.
We dont know the details of what led to Sams ousting, though we sure would like to.
Other headlines this week
Israel is using AI to identify suspected Palestinian militants.
Elon Musk waded into this contentious conversation during hisweird-ass Dealbook interviewthis week.
So, you could ask Digital God at that point.
These lawsuits wont be decided on a timeframe thats relevant.
You just keep your eyes out for that digital deity.
Cruise robotaxis continue to struggle.
Cruise, the robotaxi company owned by General Motors, has been having a really tough year.
This week,it was reportedthat GM would be scaling back its investments in the company.
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