(San Francisco) OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, has completely denied accusations of “betrayal” of its initial mission made by Elon Musk, and promised Tuesday in a press release to ask the court to reject them.
The boss of Tesla, SpaceX and against her last week.
Elon Musk criticizes OpenAI and Sam Altman for having “betrayed” the principles on which the company was founded: it had status as a non-profit organization, should work for the good of humanity and design programs of artificial intelligence (AI) in “open source” (accessible, modifiable, usable and redistributable by all).
OpenAI has received some $13 billion from Microsoft in recent years, and both companies market AI services for developers and individuals.
Sam Altman and other executives at the flagship Silicon Valley startup detailed their counterarguments Tuesday, with supporting emails, to show that Elon Musk was not opposed to the idea of transform OpenAI in order to carry out its mission: to build so-called “general” AI, that is to say at least as intelligent as humans.
By 2017, “we all realized that we were going to need a lot more capital to succeed in our mission – billions of dollars a year, which was way more than any of us, especially Elon, thought be able to raise as a non-profit organization,” they explain.
Elon Musk would then have proposed merging OpenAI with Tesla, which would have been his “cash cow”.
Faced with the team’s refusal, Mr. Musk “quickly chose to leave OpenAI”, saying “that he planned to build a competing general AI within Tesla” and that “he was in favor of us finding our own way to raise billions of dollars,” explains the Californian group.
Sam Altman and his colleagues further argue that their company makes its technology available free of charge to countries and organizations, “like Albania to accelerate its accession to the European Union”.
In 2016, Ilya Sutskever, one of the co-founders, wrote to Elon Musk: “the term “open” [ouvert] in OpenAI means that everyone should benefit from the fruits of AI once it is built, but it is perfectly acceptable not to share the science,” to which the entrepreneur replied: “Yep” .