“Elon Musk: The Humorous Side of Innovating with OpenAI”
“OpenAI and Elon Musk”
“In 2018, Elon Musk stepped down from our board and OpenAI started accepting for-profit investment. Elon’s departure from our board was part of a broader evolution of our relationship, not caused by any particular event.”
Once upon a time, in 2018, the technological wizard, Elon Musk, bid his adieu to the board of OpenAI. Now, before you start weaving tales of corporate drama and conjuring images of heated boardroom disputes, pump the brakes. Candidly, Musk’s departure was more of a gentle, natural progression in the grand scheme of OpenAI’s existence than a heartstopping climax in a corporate soap opera.
“Elon has a more optimistic timeline about AGI in general than we do”, says OpenAI’s statement. In layman’s terms, Elon Musk thinks super-intelligent computers will be here sooner than OpenAI anticipates. But hey, isn’t that classic Elon — always in a rush to catapult us into a sci-fi future.
This difference of opinion between OpenAI and Musk poses no shortage of amusement. Imagine, a world-renowned tech tycoon mates with a cutting-edge artificial intelligence research lab, and the child, AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), has parents who can’t quite agree when it’s going to grow up. But isn’t that just the age-old story of parenting?
But through the family drama, OpenAI isn’t losing sight of its paramount responsibility — mitigating the risk associated with AGI. Although AGI’s parents may bicker about its maturation schedule, they stay firm and united in not allowing it to become the technological equivalent of an unsupervised teenager with a Ferrari.
“Elon is not a fiduciary,” mentions OpenAI, indicating that Elon doesn’t hold the purse strings. But it wouldn’t be quite an interesting narrative if the billionaire tech mogul wandered off without leaving his peculiar footprints, would it? Following the Musk family tradition, Tesla’s Autopilot and Dojo programs refuse to play by the established rules and have designs on being trained with vast amounts of data.
As the curtain falls on this act of the narrative, OpenAI and Elon Musk part ways on a path bifurcated by philosophical differences. Elon Musk, the ever-eager visionary, enthusiastically racing towards the AGI future, and OpenAI, the cautious guardian, ensuring we don’t trip and fall flat on our faces in this wild dash. And so, the saga continues. After all, every family, even in tech, has its drama. Let’s just hope this one doesn’t end with Skynet.
Read the original article here: https://openai.com/blog/openai-elon-musk