Episode 11.19: Q* = The latest speculation about what really happened at OpenAI regarding Altman.

The twitterati (exorati doesn’t quite do it) are speculating that what the board were concerned about over Altman’s alleged “lack of candour” concerned undisclosed research into an amalgamation of GPT technology with Q-learning that could give (or in some versions already has given) rise to an AI capable of cracking the top encryption algorithm in use: AES 192. Nobody knows for sure, but the speculation is rife.