Worth noting that this came from DeepMind in Sep-Oct of this year, so it's not related to OpenAI's "unfortunate" leak [0] of Q*.
[0] https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/23982046/sam-altman-inte...
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I wouldn't go that far. Immediately after Q* leaked, Jimmy Apples pointed to this thread on Twitter : https://twitter.com/polynoamial/status/1676971508911198209
It's Noam Brown's (former Deep Mind) "I'm joining OpenAI" thread from Back in June, and he talks about how he wants to bring some of the work from AlphaGoZero etc into OpenAI's AGI architecture.
It looks like this Q-transformer work shares a lot of the same lineage of what Q* is supposed to be. This is Google's attempt at mushing Q-learning into transformer land, which is probably what Q* is as well. It's not the same thing, for sure, but they are at least sibling bodies of work.
Also, it is not Amazon Q, which was presented yesterday:
Also it's not Q from Star Trek, or Q stars which are an exotic form of matter immediately preceding the singularity of a black hole.
Also, it's not Android Q.
Or James Bond’s Q.
or Q.