OpenAI makes its first public comments since Elon Musk claimed in a lawsuit that the artificial intelligence giant is putting “profits above humanity,” as the tech giant merges with Tesla six years ago. The lawsuit alleges that the company sought to gain “complete control” of the company.
ChatGPT creator included this allegation on Tuesday night blog post“We move to reject all of Mr. Elon’s claims, including his claim that Sam Altman has led the company to “fundamentally depart from its original mission” by putting profit over humanity. I intend to do so.”
“When we were discussing a for-profit organization to further our mission, Elon wanted us to merge with Tesla or have full control,” Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever said OpenAI’s founding team and executives, including John Shulman and Wojciech. Zaremba — written in the post.
In early February 2018, the same month that Musk left OpenAI — reportedly due to disagreements in Altman’s contract with Microsoft, marking a shift away from the company’s purely non-commercial roots. “OpenAI forwarded us an email suggesting that we should join Tesla as a company,” Musk commented, according to an OpenAI blog post.
“Tesla is the only way to beat Google,” Musk added in the memo.
The OpenAI band also revealed that Musk has pledged $1 billion in funding to the company. The company is the most valuable AI startup, reportedly worth $80 billion as a result of a recent secondary stock sale.
But “the nonprofit has raised less than $45 million in total from Elon and more than $90 million from other donors,” OpenAI told the Superior California newspaper as its feud with Musk escalates. This was stated in the complaint filed on February 29th. The court noted that OpenAI’s certificate of incorporation states that its operations are not “organized for the private benefit of any person.”
“Upon his retirement in late February 2018, he informed our team that he supported us finding our own path to raising billions of dollars,” OpenAI claimed. .
OpenAI is still run by a nonprofit organization, but it has strengthened its for-profit arm in recent years with the backing of high-profile investors such as Microsoft, which pledged $13 billion to the company as part of a “multi-year agreement.” There is.
As part of the deal, Microsoft acquired a 49% stake in OpenAI’s commercial revenue.
Other major shareholders in OpenAI’s profitable business include LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures.
“I brought this lawsuit to force OpenAI to comply with its founding agreement and return to its mission of developing AGI,” Musk said in court documents. [artificial general intelligence] Not for the benefit of individual defendants or the world’s largest technology companies, but for the benefit of humanity. ”
The court filing seeks a jury trial and a court order requiring OpenAI to continue fulfilling its promise to serve the public’s interests, not Microsoft’s. “We seek to maximize profits.” It will benefit humanity. ”
OpenAI denied the allegations in a blog post, saying, “OpenAI’s mission is to ensure AGI.” [artificial general intelligence] This means both building safe and profitable AGI and helping create widely distributed benefits, benefiting all of humanity. ”
Recently, OpenAI added new software to its high-tech portfolio called Sora, which can generate one-minute videos in response to a few simple text queries.
This technology is currently available to selected authors and security experts who “red team” products regarding security issues. This is a process in which a group poses as an enemy and attempts physical or digital intrusion into an organization.
It wasn’t immediately clear when Sora would be available to the public or whether it would be available for free to users upon release.
