On Thursday, Elon Musk sued Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research company Musk jointly founded with Sam Altman, for allegedly renouncing the OpenAI mission to create AI for the benefit of humanity.
The case, submitted in San Francisco, says that Altman and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman had approached Musk about setting up an open-source, non-profit lab. Despite the position of the attorneys of Tesla, the present for-profit model of OpenAI used for raising money contravenes the initial mission.
Additionally, the suit accuses OpenAI of keeping details of its most advanced AI system, GPT-4, completely secret rather than operating transparently. Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 but stepped down from its board in 2018 to focus on companies such as Tesla and SpaceX.
OpenAI’s success with ChatGPT made the industry of AI-powered tools very direct and quickly facing competition. Given its arrival in November 2022, the drop-dead launch of Chat GPT has brought in a frenzy of consumerization of AI all over the world.
Surprisingly, Altman was put on the board of directors by the investors, who also articulated overlapping interests in protecting OpenAI’s initial cause and OpenAI’s vision in 2022. Earlier on, he had to step off the board because of this issue but later returned to the board with the help of a new team.
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