Open artificial intelligence Founder issues scathing response Musk’s lawsuit On Tuesday night, it was claimed that Musk seized power in 2017 to achieve “absolute control” of the artificial intelligence startup.The emails show that Musk initially intended to make the startup less open-source and less profitable, although he has now Sue OpenAI on these grounds. The key difference is that Musk is no longer in charge.
“In late 2017, Elon and we decided that the next step was to create a for-profit entity,” OpenAI’s founders said in a statement. Blog article. “Elon wanted majority ownership, initial board control and the role of CEO. During these discussions, he declined to provide funding.”
The response was filled with interesting details and several internal emails were made public. Emails show that Musk was fully aware of OpenAI’s intention to raise funds as early as 2016, and became less open about it as the startup matured. Musk got on board at the time and even tried to merge OpenAI into Tesla, noting that it would need billions of dollars to compete with Google. When OpenAI rejected the proposal, Musk left, saying OpenAI had zero chance of success and that he would create an artificial intelligence competitor within Tesla.
“Without significant changes in execution and resources, my assessment of the probability of OpenAI being related to DeepMind/Google is 0%. Not 1%. I hope that is not the case.” Musk said in an email to the founder of OpenAI Zhong said.
An internal email shows that the word “open” in OpenAI does not mean open source at all. Musk responded to an email from OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever in 2016, describing what the name really meant and noting that early open source artificial intelligence models were just a recruitment strategy.
“As we get closer to building artificial intelligence, it makes sense to start being less open,” Sutskover said in an email. “Open in openAI means that everyone should benefit from the results of artificial intelligence when it is built, but it is perfectly okay not to share the science.”
Replies were written by OpenAI founders Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, John Schulman, Wojciech Zaremba and, most notably, Ilya Sutskever.chief scientist’s His position in the company has been up in the air It was Suzkweil’s first sign of life in nearly four months, since he led the campaign to fire Sam Altman last November. Altman declined in multiple interviews to answer whether he still worked for the company.
Another detail in this article is Chat GPT There are currently more than 100 million daily active users. OpenAI reaches 100 million weekly active users Back to November 2023but now the founder of OpenAI says “hundreds of millions of people use [the free version of ChatGPT] every day. “
For at least eight years, OpenAI has been planning internally to become profitable and hide its best artificial intelligence models. Musk seems to have known about them all along. These plans have not been made public until now, which may be the purpose of Musk’s lawsuit. The emails suggest that Musk’s real complaint is that he is no longer running OpenAI.
