Today in AI: Q-Star the secret project responsible for Altman saga, Meta shuffling responsible AI staff to other teams, Google's Bard gets smarter

What is Q-Star, the OpenAI software that may have led to Altman's ouster

Some at OpenAI think Q* — pronounced Q-Star — might represent a significant advancement in the company's quest for artificial general intelligence (AGI).

• Some at OpenAI think Q* — pronounced Q-Star — might represent a significant advancement in the company's quest for artificial
  general intelligence (AGI). AGI is defined by OpenAI as autonomous systems that outperform humans in the majority of economically significant tasks, according to an individual who spoke with Reuters.


• Math is seen by researchers as a frontier for the creation of generative AI. Answers to the same topic can differ greatly, and generative AI is now competent at writing and language translation by statistically predicting the following word.

Meta moves members of Responsible AI team to other group

In October, the social media giant started rolling out generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools that can create content like image backgrounds and variations of written text for all advertisers.

• Meta Platforms is dispersing the members of its Responsible AI team among other groups in the company where they will continue to work on preventing harms associated with artificial intelligence, the company said on Saturday.


• Most of the Responsible AI team members will move to generative AI ”and will continue to support relevant cross-Meta efforts on responsible AI development and use,” the statement said.

Google's AI chatbot Bard gets smarter, now answers questions about YouTube videos

Google is expanding Bard's YouTube Extension to understand some video content on the platform and answer specific queries on them.

• "We're taking the first steps in Bard's ability to understand YouTube videos...We’ve heard you want deeper engagement with YouTube videos. So we’re expanding the YouTube Extension to understand some video content so you can have a richer conversation with Bard about it," the company said in Bard's changelog.


• For instance, if the user is looking for videos on how to make chocolate cake, they can later ask Bard how much cocoa powder is needed in the first video.