Preface: I wish OpenAI the best of luck. That said, the quoted verbiage is vague and different from what Altman and Musk said in interviews [0]. > Altman: The

Preface: I wish OpenAI the best of luck. That said, the quoted verbiage is vague and different from what Altman and Musk said in interviews [0]. > Altman: The organization is trying to develop a human positive AI > Musk: There’s two schools of thought — do you want many AIs, or a small number of AIs? We think probably many is good. And to the degree that you can tie it to an extension of individual human will, that is also good. OpenAI's about page is also different from what was written in the AI open letters signed by Musk and presumably other backers of OpenAI last year, > Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has reached a point where the deployment of such systems is — practically if not legally — feasible within years, not decades, and the stakes are high: autonomous weapons have been described as the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms. [1] > The key question for humanity today is whether to start a global AI arms race or to prevent it from starting ... We therefore believe that a military AI arms race would not be beneficial for humanity [1] Then, in another letter, > We recommend expanded research aimed at ensuring that increasingly capable AI systems are robust and beneficial: our AI systems must do what we want them to do It sounds like Musk either thinks we are approaching AI, or he is misusing the term AI. The AI letter signees and backers of OpenAI may benefit from more discussion with experienced AI researchers such as those I linked above. What Altman and Musk said about the founding goals of OpenAI is not grounded in reality. It's great to have more funding in this field. [0] https://backchannel.com/how-elon-musk-and-y-combinator-plan-to-stop-computers-from-taking-over-17e0e27dd02a#.g33qtn9ni https://backchannel.com/how-elon-musk-and-y-combinator-plan-... [1] http://futureoflife.org/open-letter-autonomous-weapons/ http://futureoflife.org/open-letter-autonomous-weapons/ [2] http://futureoflife.org/ai-open-letter/ http://futureoflife.org/ai-open-letter/