Elon Musk, the creator of ChatGPT, said he supports turning OpenAI into a commercial enterprise and accused the artificial intelligence business of betraying its founding goal of benefiting humanity in its pursuit of profit. Attacked lawsuits from investors.
In its first response since Tesla’s chief executive was sued last week, OpenAI vows to discard its claims and publishes Mr. Musk’s emails and reports that he and the San Francisco-based company years ago The feud with the billionaire who financed the company’s creation intensified.
“OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that AGI benefits all humanity. This means both building safe and beneficial AGI and helping create broadly distributed benefits. ,” OpenAI said in a blog post late Tuesday by five company executives and computer scientists, including CEO Sam Altman. . “We intend to reject all of Mr. Elon’s claims.”
AGI refers to artificial general intelligence. It is an artificial general intelligence system that can perform as well as or better than humans at a variety of tasks.
Musk, who now runs his own artificial intelligence startup, says in his lawsuit that when he provided funding for OpenAI’s launch, the institute remains a nonprofit organization that develops technology for the public good. It is said that an agreement was reached.
His lawsuit alleges breach of contract and seeks an injunction to prevent anyone, including Microsoft, which has invested billions of dollars into OpenAI, from profiting financially from the technology.
OpenAI said both the startup and Mr. Musk recognized the need for the company to become a for-profit entity in order to gain enough resources to compete with companies like Google, and that Tesla’s CEO and He posted a screenshot of an email discussing the possibility among OpenAI leaders. I cannot agree to the terms.
As for the level of funding OpenAI needs, Musk said in an email: “This needs billions of dollars a year right now or we forget.”
Musk posted a laughing emoji on Wednesday in response to user X’s comment that OpenAI should be renamed OpenEmail.
“Change your name,” Musk also responded on his social media platform.
The law firm that brought Mr. Musk’s case to court did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.
Musk was an early investor in OpenAI when it was founded in 2015 and co-chaired the company’s board with Altman. He said in his lawsuit that he invested “tens of millions” of dollars in OpenAI.
But the company said Musk invested less than $45 million, while it raised more than $90 million from other donors.
OpenAI says that by 2017, its leaders began to realize that building artificial general intelligence would require vast amounts of computing power.
“We all understood that we needed more funding to succeed in our mission. “It’s much more profitable than it was.”
According to OpenAI, during the discussion Musk asked to become CEO and major shareholder and have control of the board, but OpenAI executives said no one person should have “absolute control.” He says he was thinking about it.
Next, Musk said OpenAI could merge with Tesla, allowing the electric car maker to serve as a “cash tree” to compete with Google’s well-funded artificial intelligence efforts. suggested.
That didn’t happen, and instead Musk left and founded his own artificial general intelligence startup, xAI, while supporting OpenAI’s plans to raise billions of dollars, the company said.
OpenAI also pushed back against Musk’s claims that he broke his promise to keep its code available to the public rather than shutting it down for private gain.
An email from lead scientist Ilya Satskeva said that open sourcing everything would allow “someone with malicious intent” to build “insecure AI” and that “there is no need to share the science at all.” There’s no problem.” Mr. Musk replied, “Yes.”
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Information for this article was contributed by Matt O’Brien of The Associated Press.