The company that created ChatGPT, OpenAI, refuted Elon Musk’s charges of “betrayal” of its initial goal on Tuesday and stated that it will work to get them dropped in court.
One of OpenAI’s most outspoken detractors, the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and X was among the company’s co-founders in 2015 alongside Sam Altman. However, he departed the company in 2018.
Musk filed court filings in a San Francisco court last week to begin a lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming that the company was always meant to be a nonprofit.
According to a blog post by OpenAI and its management, “We intend to move to dismiss all of Elon’s claims.”
When OpenAI released ChatGPT, a chatbot that can write essays, poems, and even pass examinations, in late 2022, the public was captivated.
Initially, the company was a non-profit organization whose goal was to create “artificial general intelligence” (AGI), which is a term used to refer to a type of AI that will surpass human intelligence on all fronts.The goal of OpenAI was to ensure that this kind of technology would not endanger human safety. Microsoft has invested over $13 billion in OpenAI in recent years, and both firms offer AI services to both developers and consumers.
Altman and other Silicon Valley start-up CEOs presented their counterarguments and accompanying emails on Tuesday.
“We regret that this has happened to us regarding someone we greatly admire — someone who encouraged us to reach higher, then predicted our failure, founded a rival, and then filed a lawsuit against us when we began making significant headway on OpenAI’s mission without him,” they stated in a blog post.
“We all realized in 2017 that we would require a significant amount of funding to achieve our goal — billions of dollars annually, which exceeded everyone’s expectations, particularly Elon’s, that we could secure as a nonprofit organization,” they stated.
In an email the following year, Musk recommended that OpenAI be integrated “to Tesla as its cash cow.”
Musk, however, “soon chose to leave OpenAI, saying that our probability of success was 0,” adding that he intended to create an AGI rivalry within Tesla, when the team rejected him.
According to the OpenAI blog post, “when he left in late February 2018, he told our team he was supportive of us finding our own path to raising billions of dollars.”
Additionally, according to Altman and his colleagues, Albania is “using OpenAI’s tools to accelerate its EU accession by as much as 5.5 years.” Their company offers open AI access to organizations and nations.
