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OpenAI Isn't Open Enough for Elon

13 points by feross 3y ago

kristianp 3y ago
https://archive.is/fEtqw https://archive.is/fEtqw
nickthegreek 3y ago
This article adds more to conversation from previous submission and is an analysis by Matt Levine and includes 2 documents worth of note and talks about the lack of a Funding Agreement. > There’s a June 2015 email from Altman to Musk, with five numbered bullet points setting out a plan for building AI. “The mission would be to create the first general AI and use it for individual empowerment — i.e., the distributed version of the future that seems the safest,” the first bullet point begins. “I think ideally we’d start with a group of 7-10 people, and plan to expand it from there,” says the second, and “we have a nice extra building in Mountain View they can have.” The third bullet point proposes a five-person governance board including Musk and Altman, and “we’d have an ongoing conversation about what work should be open-sourced and what shouldn’t.” In the fourth bullet point, Altman asks Musk to “be involved somehow in addition to just governance”; maybe he could “come by and talk to them about progress once a month or whatever.”1 Musk replied to the email “Agree on all.” > There is the December 2015 certificate of incorporation of OpenAI Inc., the nonprofit corporation that ultimately controls OpenAI. “The specific purpose of this corporation is to provide funding for research, development and distribution of technology related to artificial intelligence,” it says. “The resulting technology will benefit the public and the corporation will seek to open source technology for the public benefit when applicable. The corporation is not organized for the private gain of any person. … No part of the net income or assets of this corporation shall ever inure to the benefit of any director, officer or member thereof or to the benefit of any private person.”

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OpenAI Isn't Open Enough for Elon

13 points by feross 3y ago

kristianp 3y ago
https://archive.is/fEtqw https://archive.is/fEtqw
nickthegreek 3y ago
This article adds more to conversation from previous submission and is an analysis by Matt Levine and includes 2 documents worth of note and talks about the lack of a Funding Agreement. > There’s a June 2015 email from Altman to Musk, with five numbered bullet points setting out a plan for building AI. “The mission would be to create the first general AI and use it for individual empowerment — i.e., the distributed version of the future that seems the safest,” the first bullet point begins. “I think ideally we’d start with a group of 7-10 people, and plan to expand it from there,” says the second, and “we have a nice extra building in Mountain View they can have.” The third bullet point proposes a five-person governance board including Musk and Altman, and “we’d have an ongoing conversation about what work should be open-sourced and what shouldn’t.” In the fourth bullet point, Altman asks Musk to “be involved somehow in addition to just governance”; maybe he could “come by and talk to them about progress once a month or whatever.”1 Musk replied to the email “Agree on all.” > There is the December 2015 certificate of incorporation of OpenAI Inc., the nonprofit corporation that ultimately controls OpenAI. “The specific purpose of this corporation is to provide funding for research, development and distribution of technology related to artificial intelligence,” it says. “The resulting technology will benefit the public and the corporation will seek to open source technology for the public benefit when applicable. The corporation is not organized for the private gain of any person. … No part of the net income or assets of this corporation shall ever inure to the benefit of any director, officer or member thereof or to the benefit of any private person.”