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@jamesbritt lol I might have done the same if I weren't already familiar with what is most likely its predecessor, A*.

Which tells you a little bit about what Q* probably is: A fancy search algorithm, and that's it. (That's also alluded to by Yann LeCun's tweet that's embedded in the article I linked.) Basically, they are adding lookahead instead of just generating one token at a time, to generate content that's more human-seeming because it's more tightly constrained within the probability distribution of human language usage. To even suggest this is some magical AGI breakthrough that deserves a moral panic is ludicrous, and can only be justified by the execs involved (1) not really understanding how the technology they're using even works and (2) being high on the feelings of power they get from the magical thinking this leads them to.