In a news story we shared with you a few days ago, we talked about tension between OpenAI and billionaire businessman Elon Musk. we mentioned. Elon Musk complained about OpenAI and the company’s CEO Sam Altman He was on his way to court. Musk and his lawyers stated that both OpenAI and Sam Altman had moved away from their goals, and that this was due to their agreement. it is against he was saying.
Now a remarkable development has taken place regarding this issue. OpenAI management broke its silence and criticized Elon Musk’s claims. dismissive made an extensive statement. This statement touched on things like what OpenAI has done so far and why it started placing importance on materiality. Also the conversation between Elon Musk and OpenAI emails was also shared. Elon Musk also responded to this. Let’s explore this problem in depth together.
Things changed when OpenAI realized how expensive artificial general intelligence was

OpenAI says its first meeting with Elon Musk took place in late 2015. So were the company’s founders, Greg Brockman and Sam Altman $100 million He planned to raise money. However, this figure was seen as quite low for Elon Musk. According to Musk, the team should have started with a budget of $1 billion. At least that’s what he should have said. In the meantime; According to OpenAI’s statement, Elon Musk joined the company in the first phase. $45 million He passed around.
In the first phase, non-profit organization OpenAI in 2017 he notices. So much so that it is not possible to develop general artificial intelligence with current budgets. The team realizes how much computing power they need and understands that they will have to spend billions of dollars to do so. OpenAI said in a statement that this was from Elon Musk even more than you expected emphasizes that this is so.
Elon Musk has known since then that OpenAI must make a profit.

Realizing something, the team met Elon Musk in 2017 and for profit They say they want to become a new formation. Elon Musk says they can do this, but gives OpenAI two options. These are both Merger with Tesla or putting Elon Musk in charge of the formation. However, OpenAI cannot reach an agreement with Elon Musk as they believe the formation cannot be established under one leader. The statement also acknowledged financial support from Elon Musk while all this was happening. cut Is being asked.
“We are expanding our mission to include artificial intelligence tools that are accessible to everyone.”
Although OpenAI now admits that they are out for profit, they want people to be aware of their work. In this context; on the one hand open source The team states that they support projects and that the tools they offer for free have users from all over the world. To give some examples, OpenAI states that Albania is using artificial intelligence to become compatible with the EU. A company called Digital Green provides agricultural extension services with OpenAI services. 100 times cheaperIt is stated that in this way the income of farmers in Kenya and India is increased.

OpenAI, Elon Musk’s latest attempt at artificial general intelligence It’s not just open source also says. Ilya Sutskever even wrote in an email to Elon Musk:As we get closer to developing AI, it makes sense to be less open.he says. Elon Musk responded by saying: ‘Yes‘, he uses the expression.
Let’s talk about the emails between the parties:

Part of Elon Musk’s first email to Greg Brockman (November 22, 2015)
We need a much bigger number than $100 million so we don’t look hopeless compared to what Google or Facebook are spending. I think we should say that we started with a $1 billion funding commitment. This is real. I will cover everything that no one else does.
Email sent to Elon Musk explaining why OpenAI is for-profit (January 31, 2018 – email sender withheld)
Unfortunately, working at the cutting edge of AI is expensive. For example, in addition to DeepMind, Google also has Google Brain, Research and Cloud. And they own TensorFlow, TPUs, and about a third of all research (they even hold their own AI conference).
Moreover, achieving artificial general intelligence is not easy. If historical trends are any indication, advances in artificial intelligence are primarily driven by systems such as computers, data, and infrastructure. The basic algorithms we use today have remained largely unchanged since the 1990s. Not only that, any algorithmic advance published in an article somewhere can be re-implemented and incorporated into a project almost immediately. Conversely, algorithmic developments are ineffective on their own without scale, making them scary.
It seems to me that OpenAI is just wasting money these days and its funding model cannot reach the scale to seriously compete with Google. If you can’t compete seriously but keep working, you might be making things worse and helping them ‘for free’. Because it is very easy for them to copy the progress and immediately integrate it at scale.
A for-profit entity can create a more sustainable revenue stream over time and potentially bring in a lot of investment with the existing team. But building a product from scratch would take the focus away from AI research, take a long time, and it’s unclear whether any company can “catch up” to Google’s scale. The most promising option I can think of is for OpenAI to connect to Tesla, as I mentioned earlier. I believe that collaborations with other major companies (such as Apple and Amazon) will fail due to incompatible corporate DNA.
Let me turn this into a “rocket” analogy. Tesla had already built the “first stage” of the rocket, with the entire Model 3 supply chain, an onboard computer and a permanent internet connection. The ‘second phase’, which will enable the launch of the rocket, will be a fully autonomous solution based on OpenAI’s large-scale neural network training. We could sell many cars/trucks with a functioning fully autonomous driving solution in about 2-3 years. If we do this really well, we will increase Tesla’s market value and we can use those revenues to fund AI work at scale.
I don’t see another path that has the potential to achieve sustainable capital on Google’s scale within ten years.
Elon Musk responds to this email as follows (February 1, 2018)

Tesla is the only way OpenAI can challenge Google. But even in this case, the possibility of counterbalancing Google is not zero, but very low.
Elon Musk sends another email to Ilya Sutskever (December 26, 2018)
Without a dramatic change in implementation and resources, my assessment of the likelihood that OpenAI will compete with DeepMind/Google is 0%. Not even 1%. I wish it were different. Even raising a few hundred million won’t be enough. Either we have to spend billions of dollars every year or we have to forget about it.
To OpenAI’s statement and all shared emails from here accessible.
Elon Musk’s answer: “Change your name”
From Elon Musk to the X-post in which OpenAI shared the above statements: very short An answer came. Musk said.change your namehe simply said.
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