OpenAI has uncovered several emails between the company's board of directors and Elon Musk in which Musk indicates his approval of a closed source strategy. He also wanted to merge the company with Tesla. Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI last week for breach of contract.
“If it's easier to create insecure AI than secure AI, then we make it easier for people with bad intentions and access to a lot of hardware to create insecure AI if we make everything open source,” co-founder Ilya Sutskever wrote. Underneath more Elon Musk. So it would be “perfectly OK” not to share the “science” with everyone. “Yes,” co-founder Elon Musk responded. It is evident from the emails revealed by OpenAI.
The email is notable because Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI earlier this week. The company is said to have put “profit over its mission,” including not making GPT-4 fully open source. Therefore, Musk filed a lawsuit against the company for breach of contract and unfair business practices. Surprisingly, Musk is suing the company over the lack of open source, while in the January 2016 email he seemed to agree with the idea that not everything should be open source. Two years after this email, Musk withdrew from OpenAI's board of directors.
In the complaint, Musk also criticizes the close collaboration between OpenAI and Microsoft, because OpenAI “has harmed the original mission of developing AI for the benefit of humanity and not for profit.” In emails revealed by OpenAI, Musk in 2018 suggested “tying” OpenAI to Tesla. In Musk's proposal, OpenAI would power the self-driving and neural network functions of Tesla cars. Tesla is working on this itself, but OpenAI's expertise “would significantly speed this up.”
“With fully operational self-driving cars within about two to three years, we could sell a lot of vehicles,” Musk wrote in 2018. Tesla sales should grow significantly this way, which will allow OpenAI to develop artificial intelligence with this increased rotation. According to Musk, connecting OpenAI with another company was crucial because of the money required to create one Artificial general intelligence The ultimate goal of OpenAI. Musk said that he did not see any other option to compete with Google other than linking OpenAI to another company, as there would be no better option than Tesla.
Before Musk proposed linking OpenAI with Tesla, he wanted “total control of OpenAI,” OpenAI says. This is not clear in the emails shared by the company. According to OpenAI, the company decided with Musk that OpenAI should become for-profit, as Musk wants majority ownership and control of the board of directors, and become CEO. During this discussion in late 2017, Musk stopped funding OpenAI, the company claims. When these discussions didn't produce the results Musk wanted, he left OpenAI. He wanted to develop general artificial intelligence at Tesla himself, without OpenAI.
OpenAI's emails and letter, which were signed by the company's board of directors, are a response to Musk's complaint. Therefore, the company rejects Musk's claims and says it will appeal them.
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