Musk’s message to Sam Altman: Remember because of me, OpenAI exists; old video goes viral
Elon Musk claims he is the reason OpenAI exists, spurred by a disagreement with Google's Larry Page over AI safety. Musk envisioned OpenAI as an open-source, non-profit alternative to Google's profit-driven, closed-source model. He expressed concern over OpenAI's transformation into a for-profit entity and its relationship with Microsoft, questioning who truly holds control.
Elon Musk claims he is the reason OpenAI exists, spurred by a disagreement with Google's Larry Page over AI safety. Musk envisioned OpenAI as an open-source, non-profit alternative to Google's profit-driven, closed-source model. He expressed concern over OpenAI's transformation into a for-profit entity and its relationship with Microsoft, questioning who truly holds control.
Elon Musk co-founded ChatGPT-maker OpenAI in 2015 along with Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others. The tech billionaire left the OpenAI board in 2018 citing disagreements on the control and direction of the company.
Now, an old video of Tesla CEO has surfaced where Musk can be seen saying: “I am the reason OpenAI exists”.
He kinda credited Google co-founder
Larry Page
for pushing him to found the company. “The final straw was Larry calling me a speciest for being a pro-human consciousness instead of machine consciousness,” he said adding “I came up with the name [OpenAI], which refers to open source. The intent was to what is the opposite of Google, would be an open source non-profit, because Google is closed source profit, and that profit motivation could be dangerous.”
Here’s what Elon Musk said about founding OpenAI
“I am the reason OpenAI exists... I used to be a close friend with Larry Page, and I was staying at his house, and we'd have these conversations long into the evening about AI, and I would be constantly urging him to be careful about the danger of AI. And he was really not concerned about the danger of AI and was quite cavalier about it. And at the time, Google, especially after the acquisition of DeepMind, had three-quarters of the world's AI talent; they had a lot of computers, a lot of money, so it was a unipolar world for AI.
And we got a unipolar world, but the person who controls that does not, or at least did not seem to be concerned about AI safety. That sounded like a real problem.The final straw was Larry calling me a speciest for being a pro-human consciousness instead of machine consciousness, and I like, 'Well, yes, I guess I am a speciest.'
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