{"id":185669,"date":"2024-03-21T14:39:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T19:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/sam-altman-shuts-down-q-questions"},"modified":"2024-03-21T14:39:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T19:39:43","slug":"sam-altman-shuts-down-q-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/sam-altman-shuts-down-q-questions","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman Shuts Down Q* Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sam-altman-shuts-down-q-questions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is remaining tight-lipped about the company\u2019s secretive Q* project \u2014 even after admitting that his company is something of a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/openai-hiring-investigator\" class=\"\">leaky ship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jvqFAi7vkBc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Even among those who followed along with OpenAI\u2019s November massacre that saw Altman temporarily ousted, it\u2019s easy to overlook the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/sam-altmans-ouster-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-board-about-ai-breakthrough-2023-11-22\/#:~:text=The%20maker%20of, smarter%20than%20humans\" class=\"\">Q*<\/a> (pronounced \u201cqueue-star\u201d) of it all, particularly because nobody outside the company <em>really <\/em>knows what the heck it is.<\/p>\n<p>The speculation-laden project was <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/openais-chaos-powerful-new-ai\" class=\"\">linked to the chaos<\/a> at the firm in the aftermath of that failed coup, and at the end of 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/openai-refuses-comment-secretive-q-ai\" class=\"\">OpenAI refused to answer<\/a> any questions about it \u2014 a posture Altman continued in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jvqFAi7vkBc\" class=\"\">new interview<\/a> with tech podcaster Lex Fridman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is remaining tight-lipped about the company\u2019s secretive Q* project \u2014 even after admitting that his company is something of a leaky ship. Even among those who followed along with OpenAI\u2019s November massacre that saw Altman temporarily ousted, it\u2019s easy to overlook the Q* (pronounced \u201cqueue-star\u201d) of it all, particularly because nobody [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}