December 14, 2012 - Elon.Muskand OpenAI A lawsuit is heating up between OpenAI, which released a blog post on Local 13 publicly defending itself and exposing some new text message transcripts involving conversations between founders Ilya Sutzkever, Greg Brockman, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and former board member Shivaughn Zillis.
The OpenAI blog wrote: "You can't achieve this through litigation AGI(Note: General Artificial Intelligence / Artificial General Intelligence).We have great respect for Elon's accomplishments and are grateful for his early contributions to OpenAI, but he should be competing in the marketplace, not in the courts!. The United States must continue to be a global leader in AI. Our mission is toEnsuring AGI for the benefit of all, we have stayed true to this mission and will continue to do so. WeI hope Elon agrees with this goal, and supports the values of innovation and free market competition that have driven his personal success."
The publicly available new information mentions that Brockman had shared his views with Zillis in July 2017, and Musk said that the initial choice of a nonprofit structure was the right one, but that may not be the case now. Brockman also wrote to Musk that same month, arguing that OpenAI's path should be as follows:
- Nonprofit AI Research (through the end of 2017);
- AI research + hardware monetization (from 2018);
- Government projects (no start date announced).
The blog mentioned that Musk had tried to change the company's structure to get into the CEO position and control the majority of the equity, although he said in a phone call that he "doesn't care about equity" but rather "to accumulate 80 billion dollars (currently about 5818.61 million yuan) to build a city on Mars". city on Mars. Musk has also proposed integrating OpenAI into Tesla, which is otherwise "doomed to fail".
The OpenAI founders rejected his proposal (Brockman and Sutcliffe feared a power struggle would break out), negotiations broke down, and Musk eventually resigned from the company.
The blog also mentions that after Musk's resignation, he held a farewell meeting with the OpenAI team, encouraging them to "follow the path we've seen of raising billions of dollars a year," saying that he'll continue to pursue advanced AI research at Tesla, which he considers to be "the only platform that has access to this kind of financial support. this kind of financial support".
Musk accused OpenAI in March of Deviation from its original nonprofit missionthat failed to develop AI for the public good. but Musk withdrew the lawsuit again in June, without explanation, and refiled it in August.
Today's OpenAI update counters Musk's narrative by providing evidence suggesting that it was actually Musk who tried to take control in the early days of the company, not Altman, in a direct response to Musk's recent lawsuit claims about Altman's centralization of power.