It was an "Oh" moment, but on the other hand, it'd be like laughing at text-davinci-003 when you realised how basic it really was, and yet, it has led us to GPT-4 and, much as Windows 3.1 was amazing back in the day, now it's a distant memory as we carry around little glass tablets that can play 3D games and do UHD global video calls.

If Q* is the basic algorithm that is as transformative as, well, transformers/attention, then developing it to be more than just children's math could be the key to thinking - and not just latent space token generation.

They called it Q*

It’s not the first weird conspiracy I’ve heard of involving a cryptically named figure called Q…

AGI doomers can now be referred to as Q*Anon.