Elon Musk is suing the company OpenAI and its founder, CEO Sam Altman, for what he calls a betrayal of the purpose of serving humanity, serving personal gain instead.
In the lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court, the billionaire Musk said that when he funded the creation of the OpenAI company, he had reached an agreement with Mr. Altman and the company’s president, Greg Bockman, to keep the artificial intelligence company in the form of an organization. non-profit that would create technology for the public good.
Under the founding agreement, the OpenAI company would also make its code publicly available, rather than exploiting it exclusively for the company’s private benefit, the lawsuit said.
However, by entering into a close relationship with the Microsoft corporation, the Open AI company and its senior executives “set fire” to the agreement and “alienated” the company’s mission, according to Mr. Musk’s lawsuit.
The OpenAI company declined to comment Friday on the lawsuit.
“OpenAI, Inc. has been de facto transformed into a subsidiary closed to the public of the world’s largest technology company: Microsoft,” the lawsuit filed Thursday said. “According to its new Board, it is not only producing but improving an artificial intelligence (AGI) product to maximize profits for Microsoft, rather than benefiting humanity.”
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) systems can perform as well as humans, and perhaps even better, for a variety of tasks.
Mr. Musk’s lawsuit is based on breach of contract, breach of trust and unfair business practices. Mr. Musk is also seeking an injunction from the court that would stop Microsoft from profiting from the company’s OpenAI technology.
Mr. Musk was an early investor in OpenAI when it was founded in 2015 and co-chaired its board, along with Mr. Altman. In Mr. Musk’s lawsuit, it is said that he invested “tens of millions” of dollars for the research laboratory of this non-profit entity.
Mr. Musk resigned from the board in early 2018. At the time, the OpenAI company said the change would prevent a conflict of interest, while the Tesla chief was recruiting talented employees in the field of artificial intelligence to create driving technology. automatic electric car that this company produces. “This will eliminate potential future conflict for Elon,” said an OpenAI company post in February 2018. Since that time, Mr. Musk has also said he had disagreements about the direction the new company was taking, but he continued to donate funds to this non-profit entity.
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