OpenAI was working on an advanced system which was so powerful that it led to safety concerns among the company's staff, as per reports, before CEO Sam Altman was sacked. 
 
Some OpenAI researchers were alarmed by the artificial intelligence model to such an extent that they wrote to the board of directors warning that it may threaten humanity, reported Reuters. 
 
The model, which was named Q* – and pronounced as “Q-Star” – had the ability to solve basic maths questions it had never seen before, as reported by the tech news site The Information. The report added that the speed with which the system was being developed alarmed few safety researchers.

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The ability to solve math questions will be seen as a significant development in AI. The report surfaced days after the turmoil in the boardroom of San Francisco-based OpenAI, which started with the sacking of Altman and ended with his reinstatement after almost all the 750 staff of the company threatened to resign if the CEO was not brought back. 
 
Altman was also supported by the biggest investor of OpenAI – Microsoft.

<h2>Is OpenAI moving too fast? Experts raise concern over its 'speed'</h2>

Many experts have raised concerns that companies like OpenAI have been moving too fast towards the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI), which is the term used for a system which can perform vast numbers of tasks at human or above human levels of intelligence. 
 
Speaking to The Guardian, the Institute for People-Centred AI at the University of Surrey's Andrew Rogoyski said that the maths-solving large language model's (LLM) existence will be a breakthrough.

Watch:&nbsp;OpenAI said to be considering developing its own AI chips

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“The intrinsic ability of LLMs to do maths is a major step forward, allowing AIs to offer a whole new swathe of analytical capabilities,” he stated. 
 
Speaking a day before he was sacked, Altman stated that another breakthrough had been made by the company behind ChatGPT. 
 
While speaking at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit, he stated, “Four times now in the history of OpenAI, the most recent time was just in the last couple weeks, I’ve gotten to be in the room, when we sort of push the veil of ignorance back and the frontier of discovery forward, and getting to do that is the professional honour of a lifetime.”

(With inputs from agencies)

OpenAI was working on an advanced system which was so powerful that it led to safety concerns among the company's staff, as per reports, before CEO Sam Altman was sacked.

OpenAI was working on an advanced system which was so powerful that it led to safety concerns among the company's staff, as per reports, before CEO Sam Altman was sacked. Some OpenAI researchers were alarmed by the artificial intelligence model to such an extent that they wrote to the board of directors warning that it may threaten humanity, reported Reuters. The model, which was named Q* – and pronounced as “Q-Star” – had the ability to solve basic maths questions it had never seen before, as reported by the tech news site The Information. The report added that the speed with which the system was being developed alarmed few safety researchers. Also read: Explained: How OpenAI's boardroom coup was defeated by Sam Altman, AI world's disruptor-in-chief The ability to solve math questions will be seen as a significant development in AI. The report surfaced days after the turmoil in the boardroom of San Francisco-based OpenAI, which started with the sacking of Altman and ended with his reinstatement after almost all the 750 staff of the company threatened to resign if the CEO was not brought back. Altman was also supported by the biggest investor of OpenAI – Microsoft. Is OpenAI moving too fast? Experts raise concern over its 'speed' Many experts have raised concerns that companies like OpenAI have been moving too fast towards the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI), which is the term used for a system which can perform vast numbers of tasks at human or above human levels of intelligence. Speaking to The Guardian, the Institute for People-Centred AI at the University of Surrey's Andrew Rogoyski said that the maths-solving large language model's (LLM) existence will be a breakthrough. Watch: OpenAI said to be considering developing its own AI chips “The intrinsic ability of LLMs to do maths is a major step forward, allowing AIs to offer a whole new swathe of analytical capabilities,” he stated. Speaking a day before he was sacked, Altman stated that another breakthrough had been made by the company behind ChatGPT. While speaking at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit, he stated, “Four times now in the history of OpenAI, the most recent time was just in the last couple weeks, I’ve gotten to be in the room, when we sort of push the veil of ignorance back and the frontier of discovery forward, and getting to do that is the professional honour of a lifetime.” (With inputs from agencies)

OpenAI was creating THIS powerful 'model' which left staff 'alarmed' before Altman's sacking

The 'soft-pedal coverage' of the Chinese President Xi Jinping's speech at the Communist Party centenary has left US experts sounding the alarm bells. Geopolitical experts believe that commercial motive could be behind the mellow reporting of the communist nation by American media.

According to Fox News, the mainstream media in the United States had a celebratory tone leading up to the 100-year anniversary of CCP, despite its poor human rights record.

China expert Gordon Chang believes that a lot of news organizations want to do business in China, and as a result, they are willing to mellow down their coverage.

"I think it's because a lot of news organizations want to do business in China, and so they are willing to soft-pedal coverage and they are not willing to give context where context is required," Chang told Fox. "I think there's the commercial motive there."

During the 100th founding anniversary of the CCP, Xi threatened that any nation that gets in the way of China's priorities "will find their heads bashed bloody against a great wall of steel".

According to Chang, the mainstream media didn't pick up on an "important message" that was sent to America through the communist leader's rhetoric.

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"What they should have said was that Xi Jinping has territorial designs on other countries. So really what he was saying was that he's going to wage war on the region. And that was not pointed out," Chang said, adding that most American media outlets lack context when covering China and failed to pick up on a key element of the speech.

On Thursday, former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the Chinese President is serious about his 'bashing heads bloody' remark and called on President Joe Biden's administration to strengthen its policies against Beijing.

Pompeo urged the Biden administration to take the Chinese threat seriously and that the Chinese President sees America as 'weak'. "We've seen this now for six months with this administration: unprepared to respond to Chinese aggression," he said.

Pompeo further remarked: "Xi is serious. He has confidence, he's aggressive. He thinks America is declining. He's wrong about that but it's going to take American leadership to prove him wrong."

According to Fox News, China revelled in what it views as the bedrock of the nation's global success. However, they will without a doubt fail to mention that tens of millions of people have been killed at the hands of the CCP.&nbsp;

The 'soft-pedal coverage' of the Chinese President Xi Jinping's speech at the Communist Party centenary has left US experts sounding the alarm bells. Geopolitical experts believe that commercial motive could be behind the mellow reporting of the communist nation by American media.

The 'soft-pedal coverage' of the Chinese President Xi Jinping's speech at the Communist Party centenary has left US experts sounding the alarm bells. Geopolitical experts believe that commercial motive could be behind the mellow reporting of the communist nation by American media. According to Fox News, the mainstream media in the United States had a celebratory tone leading up to the 100-year anniversary of CCP, despite its poor human rights record. China expert Gordon Chang believes that a lot of news organizations want to do business in China, and as a result, they are willing to mellow down their coverage. "I think it's because a lot of news organizations want to do business in China, and so they are willing to soft-pedal coverage and they are not willing to give context where context is required," Chang told Fox. "I think there's the commercial motive there." During the 100th founding anniversary of the CCP, Xi threatened that any nation that gets in the way of China's priorities "will find their heads bashed bloody against a great wall of steel". According to Chang, the mainstream media didn't pick up on an "important message" that was sent to America through the communist leader's rhetoric. Also read | Philippine military plane carrying 85 people crashes; 40 rescued "What they should have said was that Xi Jinping has territorial designs on other countries. So really what he was saying was that he's going to wage war on the region. And that was not pointed out," Chang said, adding that most American media outlets lack context when covering China and failed to pick up on a key element of the speech. On Thursday, former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the Chinese President is serious about his 'bashing heads bloody' remark and called on President Joe Biden's administration to strengthen its policies against Beijing. Pompeo urged the Biden administration to take the Chinese threat seriously and that the Chinese President sees America as 'weak'. "We've seen this now for six months with this administration: unprepared to respond to Chinese aggression," he said. Pompeo further remarked: "Xi is serious. He has confidence, he's aggressive. He thinks America is declining. He's wrong about that but it's going to take American leadership to prove him wrong." According to Fox News, China revelled in what it views as the bedrock of the nation's global success. However, they will without a doubt fail to mention that tens of millions of people have been killed at the hands of the CCP.

US experts raise alarm over 'soft-pedal coverage' of CCP's centenary

Doctors from major hospitals in England sounded an alarm on Wednesday over a fivefold increase in the number of young children requiring medical treatment after swallowing magnets from toys.&nbsp;

Nearly half of these kids aged four months and up required surgery to remove the magnets, often followed by complications, they reported in a research letter published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, a medical journal.&nbsp;

From 2016 through 2020, four major hospitals in southeastern England admitted 251 children, who had swallowed a foreign object. &nbsp;

Coins accounted for 37 per cent of the items ingested, ahead of magnets (21 per cent) and button batteries (17 per cent).&nbsp;

Across all categories, the number of cases increased by more than half over this period.&nbsp;

But those involving magnets, mostly brightly coloured, matchstick-like pieces found in building sets, jumped five-fold, they reported.&nbsp;

More than 40 per cent of these incidents required surgery for removal.&nbsp;

"This was either laparoscopy, also known as 'key-hole' surgery, or open abdominal surgery to retrieve the magnets from the intestine," Hemanshoo Thakkar, a paediatric surgeon at Evelina London Children's Hospital, told AFP.&nbsp;

In half of the cases, there were complications.&nbsp;

"As the children suffer from a perforation, their abdomen becomes contaminated and this can result in ongoing infections," Thakkar explained.&nbsp;

Doctors from major hospitals in England sounded an alarm on Wednesday over a fivefold increase in the number of young children requiring medical treatment after swallowing magnets from toys.

Doctors from major hospitals in England sounded an alarm on Wednesday over a fivefold increase in the number of young children requiring medical treatment after swallowing magnets from toys. Nearly half of these kids aged four months and up required surgery to remove the magnets, often followed by complications, they reported in a research letter published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, a medical journal. From 2016 through 2020, four major hospitals in southeastern England admitted 251 children, who had swallowed a foreign object. Coins accounted for 37 per cent of the items ingested, ahead of magnets (21 per cent) and button batteries (17 per cent). Across all categories, the number of cases increased by more than half over this period. But those involving magnets, mostly brightly coloured, matchstick-like pieces found in building sets, jumped five-fold, they reported. More than 40 per cent of these incidents required surgery for removal. "This was either laparoscopy, also known as 'key-hole' surgery, or open abdominal surgery to retrieve the magnets from the intestine," Hemanshoo Thakkar, a paediatric surgeon at Evelina London Children's Hospital, told AFP. In half of the cases, there were complications. "As the children suffer from a perforation, their abdomen becomes contaminated and this can result in ongoing infections," Thakkar explained.

Doctors sound alarm over 5-fold jump in kids swallowing magnets 

A <a href="https://www.wionews.com/south-asia/pakistan-lawyers-ransack-hospital-in-row-with-doctors-patient-dies-267732">Pakistani</a> court will hear final arguments on Thursday in the blasphemy trial of a liberal scholar and former university lecturer a week after a U.S. religious freedom commission placed his name on its list of global victims, his lawyer said.

Junaid Hafeez, who quit his studies at Pakistan's top medical college to pursue a passion for art and literature, secured a Fulbright scholarship and attended Jackson State University in 2009 where he majored in American literature, photography and theatre with distinction.

He has been in solitary confinement in Pakistan for fear of being attacked by fellow inmates in jail since his arrest in 2013 on blasphemy charges linked to online posts.

Insulting Islam's Prophet Mohammad carries a mandatory death penalty in Pakistan, which is about 95 per cent Muslim and has some of the harshest blasphemy laws in the world.

The US&nbsp;Commission on International Religious Freedom said Hafeez and his family had been facing murder threats.

In 2013, students at a university in central Pakistan where Hafeez taught English literature accused him of blasphemous Facebook posts.

His lawyers say he was framed by students from an extremist Islamist party for his liberal and secular views.

"Hafeez has experienced extreme trauma to his mental and physical health," the commission wrote under his biodata on the global religious freedom list updated this week.

"It is a kind of a recognition that people are being persecuted in Pakistan for their belief and freedom of expression," his lawyer, Asad Jamal, told Reuters.

He said a judge would hear final arguments both from prosecution and defence on Thursday.

Since the trial began, several judges have backed out of hearing the case due to death threats.

"The lengthy trial is now on its eighth judge and the prosecution has repeatedly failed to produce evidence of the alleged blasphemy," the commission said, adding that one defence lawyer had been murdered.

No executions for blasphemy have been <a href="https://www.wionews.com/south-asia/pakistan-court-indicts-mumbai-terror-attack-mastermind-hafiz-saeed-in-terror-financing-case-267629">carried out in Pakistan</a> but merely an allegation at times is enough for a mob to lynch someone accused of blasphemy.

The Centre for Social Justice, a rights group, says at least 1,549 people have faced blasphemy charges since 1987 and 75 of them were murdered.

A Christian woman spent eight years on death row falsely charged with blasphemy before she was acquitted and left the country. A provincial governor and a minister were killed for taking up her case.

Asia Bibi's release in October last year sparked rioting by hardline Islamists, who rejected the Supreme Court's verdict and warned Prime Minister Imran Khan's government that she must not be allowed to leave the country.

A Pakistani court will hear final arguments on Thursday in the blasphemy trial of a liberal scholar and former university lecturer a week after a U.S. religious freedom commission placed his name on its list of global victims, his lawyer said.

A Pakistani court will hear final arguments on Thursday in the blasphemy trial of a liberal scholar and former university lecturer a week after a U.S. religious freedom commission placed his name on its list of global victims, his lawyer said. Junaid Hafeez, who quit his studies at Pakistan's top medical college to pursue a passion for art and literature, secured a Fulbright scholarship and attended Jackson State University in 2009 where he majored in American literature, photography and theatre with distinction. He has been in solitary confinement in Pakistan for fear of being attacked by fellow inmates in jail since his arrest in 2013 on blasphemy charges linked to online posts. Insulting Islam's Prophet Mohammad carries a mandatory death penalty in Pakistan, which is about 95 per cent Muslim and has some of the harshest blasphemy laws in the world. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom said Hafeez and his family had been facing murder threats. In 2013, students at a university in central Pakistan where Hafeez taught English literature accused him of blasphemous Facebook posts. His lawyers say he was framed by students from an extremist Islamist party for his liberal and secular views. "Hafeez has experienced extreme trauma to his mental and physical health," the commission wrote under his biodata on the global religious freedom list updated this week. "It is a kind of a recognition that people are being persecuted in Pakistan for their belief and freedom of expression," his lawyer, Asad Jamal, told Reuters. He said a judge would hear final arguments both from prosecution and defence on Thursday. Since the trial began, several judges have backed out of hearing the case due to death threats. "The lengthy trial is now on its eighth judge and the prosecution has repeatedly failed to produce evidence of the alleged blasphemy," the commission said, adding that one defence lawyer had been murdered. No executions for blasphemy have been carried out in Pakistan but merely an allegation at times is enough for a mob to lynch someone accused of blasphemy. The Centre for Social Justice, a rights group, says at least 1,549 people have faced blasphemy charges since 1987 and 75 of them were murdered. A Christian woman spent eight years on death row falsely charged with blasphemy before she was acquitted and left the country. A provincial governor and a minister were killed for taking up her case. Asia Bibi's release in October last year sparked rioting by hardline Islamists, who rejected the Supreme Court's verdict and warned Prime Minister Imran Khan's government that she must not be allowed to leave the country.

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