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Probably a bit off topic here, I was wondering if you could shade some light on why Elon Musk parted away from OpenAI. On Twitter he said he disagreed on what O
by iamcreasy 7y ago
Probably a bit off topic here, I was wondering if you could shade some light on why Elon Musk parted away from OpenAI. On Twitter he said he disagreed on what OpenAI wanted to do. Could you please tell me more on that? It seems what OpenAI is doing is pretty great.
- jv22222 7y agoThis might help answer that: - https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Elon-Musk-quit-OpenAI-Is-he-afraid-of-AI-change https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Elon-Musk-quit-OpenAI-Is-he-af... - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-17/elon-musk-left-openai-on-disagreements-about-company-pathway https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-17/elon-musk...
- dmix 7y agoSeems like an entirely reasonable choice. He’s actively commercializing AI and doesn’t want any impression of conflict of interest. Especially as now OpenAI has some clear commercialization plans directly with Microsoft. From the article: > The most obvious way to cover costs is to build a product, but that would mean changing our focus. Instead, we intend to license some of our pre-AGI technologies, with Microsoft becoming our preferred partner for commercializing them. Talent will be the hardest challenge for OpenAI in order to reach their goals.
- davej 7y agoSam Altman is on record saying that they asked him to leave because he recruited talent from OpenAI for his other companies. Sam seemed quite philosophical about it though and was complimentary to Musk otherwise. It doesn't sound like there was a ton of bad blood there.
- reeves23423 7y agoIs this the response you are referring to Sam Altman being on record https://openai.com/blog/openai-supporters/ https://openai.com/blog/openai-supporters/ ?