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Ooooooh so that's why he wanted everyone else to stop any further research and experiments on AI for at least 6 months, to give him time to catch up with his ne

• dragonwriter 3y ago
  To be fair, he announced that he was going to launch an “anti-woke” AI effort after having a falling-out with OpenAI well before signing the letter, so his commercial interest in “everybody stop so I can catch up” was clear from the outset, not a hidden thing revealed only in retrospect.
  • simplotek 3y ago
    > To be fair, he announced that he was going to launch an “anti-woke” AI effort after having a falling-out with OpenAI (...) By "falling-out" you mean he tried to take over OpenAI but failed. Musk even tried to claim OpenAI "had fallen fatally behind Google" to validate his takeover. https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-history-of-elon-musk-sam-altman-and-openai https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-histor...