The open war between Elon Musk and OpenAI is now a reality. The owner of Grok has denounced the owners of ChatGPT for wanting to become a for-profit organization. OpenAI responds by making public emails from when Elon Musk was in the associationwhere he asked for exactly what OpenAI is going to do now.
When a revolutionary technology is born, everything is utopias and good intentions. Everything will be free, we will share everything with everyone, and the world will be a better place. This is what happened with the first years of the Internet, and the first years of artificial intelligence.
But those technologiesdue to their revolutionary nature, they can generate a lot of money, and that’s when everything goes wrong. This is how the Internet has become what it is today, and this is how AI is becoming: a race between big technology companies to see who can make the most moneyleaving security, privacy, respect for copyright, or jobs in the background.
OpenAI fights back, after Elon Musk’s complaint
When the generative artificial intelligence became a reality, in 2015, a group of experts teamed up to create a non-profit company called OpenAIwith the aim of developing a safe, open source AI that would benefit all humanity.
Among those experts were Sam Altman and Elon Musk, members of the board of directors. Three years later, Elon Musk left OpenAI, visibly displeased. And little by little we begin to know why.
OpenAI announced a few months ago that it wants to create a for-profit companyin order to raise the necessary funds to develop Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). This week Elon Musk has filed a complaint against OpenAIwhom he accuses of fail to comply with the statutes on which it was founded, that is, non-profit.
OpenAI has counterattacked today by publishing some emails from when Elon Musk was part of OpenAI, which shows that Elon Musk himself proposed creating a for-profit OpenAI company in 2017.
The board of directors agreed, so Musk went on to register the company, Open Artificial Intelligence Technologies, Inc., and demanded, according to OpenAI: “a majority stake, absolute control, and to be CEO of the company.”
OpenAI rejected his proposal, because giving him absolute power went against its mission, which was a collaboration between experts. In 2018, in another email Elon Musk claims that OpenAI would fail unless it merged with Tesla.
A month later he abandoned OpenAI, and now has an AI company called xAI, with its generative AI Grok, which competes directly with OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
What OpenAI is saying is that Elon Musk I already wanted in 2017 to create a for-profit company within OpenAI, in which he would have the majority stake and would be the CEObuilding on his successes as CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. When OpenAI refused, he left with a slam of the door. Now that it’s competition, it wants to stop OpenAI from getting more capital.
This chronology has been known for years, but now these emails seem to prove it to be true: Elon Musk left OpenAI because they did not give him absolute controlbelieving that without it, he would fail. Quite the opposite has happened.
It will be interesting to see if Elon Musk continues with the complaint against OpenAI and, if it goes to trial, What decision will the judge make?. The law allows OpenAI to do what it wants to do, make a branch of its company profitable, so Elon Musk will have a difficult time in court.
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Tags: Artificial intelligence, Industry, Elon Musk
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