Elon MuskElon Musk(Elon Musk) recently sued the generative artificial intelligence company he helped found ten years ago OpenAI, triggering widespread concern in the industry.
In response, OpenAI today published a lengthy blog post, OpenAI and Elon Musk,OpenAI and Elon Musk}, explaining the relationship between OpenAI and Elon Musk, and why Musk eventually left.
The blog states that OpenAI started out as a non-profit organization,In total, we've raised just under $45 million from Elon.(currently about RMB 324 million) and raised more than 90 million US dollars (currently about RMB 648 million) from other donors.
Greg Brockman and Sam Altman initially planned to raise $1 billion when they started OpenAI in late 2015. Musk, for his part, said in an email, "We need to provide more than $1 billion ...... I think we should say start with a $10 billion financial commitment.......".
In early 2017, the OpenAI team realized that building AGI will require massive amounts of computation and therefore billions of dollars per year, far more than can be raised as a non-profit organization. AGI(general-purpose AI) will require massive amounts of computation, therefore billions of dollars per year, far more than can be raised as a non-profit organization.
At the end of 2017, the OpenAI team and Musk decided that the next step in their mission was to create a for-profit entity.Musk wants a majority stake, initial board control and to be CEO. While those discussions were going on, Musk withheld company funds, and Reid Hoffman (IT House note: Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder and angel investor) made up the shortfall in payroll and operations.
The OpenAI team was unable to agree on for-profit terms with Musk, and the company says it is against the mission for any individual to have absolute control over OpenAI.
Then Musk suggested merging OpenAI into TeslaTesla.
In early February 2018, Musk forwarded an email to the OpenAI team suggesting that OpenAI should "use Tesla as its cash cow", commenting that this was "exactly right ...... Tesla is the only road to rival Google. Even then, the likelihood of becoming a counterweight to Google is small, just not zero."
Musk soon chose to leave OpenAI due to disagreementsCalls OpenAI's probability of success 0 and plans to create an AGI competitor within Tesla. When Musk left OpenAI in late February 2018, he said he would support OpenAI in finding its own multibillion-dollar funding. In December 2018, Musk sent another email to the team stating that "even raising hundreds of millions would not be enough; instead, it would need to be billions of dollars per year, or forget it."
Musk has filed claims against OpenAI including breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and unfair business practices, and has demanded that the company restore the open source..He also asked for an injunction preventing OpenAI, its president Brockman and CEO Altman (who are named as co-defendants in the case), and Microsoft from profiting from OpenAI's artificial intelligence technology.
In response, OpenAI said the company is using the technology broadly in a number of ways to empower people and improve their daily lives, including through open source contributions.
OpenAI also claims that Musk understands that this mission does not mean open-source AGI.In a 2016 email, OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever told Musk that "as we get closer to building AI, it makes sense to start being less open. OpenAI's openness means that everyone should benefit from the results of the AI once it's built, but it's also perfectly fine not to share the science ......," to which Musk replied, "yea. "yes. "