Elon Musk's History with OpenAI: He Founded It, and Has Since Criticized It
The futuristic AI chatbot ChatGPT was released to the public recently by OpenAI (the company behind generative AI tool Dall-E). Its impressive new chatbot causes a stir, inspiring enthusiasm and concern.
The company that created the AI chatbot has a history with some of Silicon Valley's biggest names, including Elon Musk.
2015:
Musk, Altman, and other prominent Silicon Valley characters, including Peter Thiel and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, pledged $1 billion to the project in 2015.
The group aimed to create a nonprofit focused on developing artificial intelligence "in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole," according to a statement on OpenAI's website from December 11, 2015.
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2018:
Musk resigned from OpenAI's board of directors in 2018, citing possible conflicts of interest due to $Tesla(TSLA.US$'s own AI work.
2019:
Musk said he quit the company because he "didn't agree with some of what [the] OpenAI team wanted to do."
In this year, OpenAI changed from a nonprofit to a "capped profit" corporation, a hybrid of a for-profit and nonprofit. Also, it received a $1 billion investment from $Microsoft(MSFT.US$.
2020:
By 2020, Musk tweeted, "I have no control & only very limited insight into OpenAI," adding his confidence in its safety was "not high."
2022:
This month Musk called ChatGPT "scary good" and warned, "We are not far from dangerously strong AI."
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He also said he paused OpenAI's access to Twitter's database for training its software.
"Need to understand more about governance structure & revenue plans going forward. OpenAI was started as open-source & non-profit. Neither are still true."
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Mooers, any thoughts about the potential dangers of advanced AI? You can try to let ChatGPT itself talk more about Musk's history with OpenAI.![]()
Sources: Twitter, Insider, MIT Technology Review, Business Insider
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