Latest developments: OpenAI was ridiculed as “ClosedAI” and Musk is anxious again

Source: Heart of the Metaverse

Recently, Musk’s “war” with OpenAI has caused a stir in the technology circle. However, as the incident continues to ferment, many netizens say that this melon “gets more and more confused the more you eat it” "...The Heart of the Metaverse team has helped you sort out the timeline of this incident. Let's take a look!

01. Musk filed a lawsuit, and Altman responded remotely

On March 1, local time,Elon Musk cited breach of contract File a lawsuit against OpenAI and Ultraman.

The lawsuit accuses Altman and others of betraying the agreement reached when OpenAI was founded, which was to maintain the status of a "non-profit company."

Then , On March 3, Altman issued a suspected response: "All this has happened before, and all this will happen again," alluding to his previous expulsion from the board of directors.

< strong>02.OpenAI responded for the first time

Subsequently, OpenAI also responded in a memo, saying that Musk was one of the co-founders of OpenAI but was no longer a member of the company. .

OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon denied Musk’s identification of OpenAI as a “subsidiary” of investor Microsoft, and said that the lawsuit may stem from Musk’s “nothing now.” It’s a pity to be involved in company affairs.”

Prior to this, OpenAI CEO Altman once said in an interview with the media that Musk is his “hero” and expressed his nostalgia for the person who passed the People who create better technology to compete with others (that is, Musk during the co-entrepreneurship period).

At the same time, Kwon also mentioned in the memo that OpenAI’s mission is to “ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all mankind” and that it has a competitive relationship with Microsoft.

Seth Kugler, a lawyer specializing in corporate governance and artificial intelligence, said that Musk wants to prove that OpenAI abandoned its original mission by authorizing GPT-4 and retained Exclusive rights for certain technologies will be "very difficult".

Kugler said that to prove OpenAI’s violations, Musk must prove that GPT-4 is a general artificial intelligence.

Last year, Musk began assembling a team to develop an artificial intelligence to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Currently, he already offers his own artificial intelligence chatbot Grok on the X platform (formerly Twitter).

In addition, OpenAI’s response also mentioned “inquiries from government agencies,” which is obviously a reference to the recently reported U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation into Altman’s firing and rehiring last year. investigation.

Kwon, OpenAI’s chief strategy officer, said: “After the incident in November last year, the SEC asked us to provide relevant information. Currently, OpenAI is cooperating with the investigation.”

03. Strange tweets from OpenAI’s former head of developer relations

At the same time, one day after his resignation, OpenAI’s head of developer relations posted a tweet that seemed somewhat related to this incident. Text: "Open source Al should be a common victory for developers, enterprises and mankind."

04.OpenAI released key evidence and slapped Musk in the face

On March 5, local time, OpenAI began to disclose key evidence of the controversy. The company first published an email conversation in January 2016.

Sutskever, one of the co-founders, said in the conversation: "As we get closer to building artificial intelligence, it makes sense to start being less open" "It is perfectly fine not to share 'science'" .

And Musk replied: "Yes."

This is obviously inconsistent with the reason why Musk filed the lawsuit this time. In addition, there are other reasons in this lawsuit. Confusing accusations, such as GPT-4 being a “Microsoft proprietary algorithm” that stands for General Artificial Intelligence.

In OpenAI’s response on March 5, it clearly stated that it would reject “all of Musk’s accusations” and challenged Elon’s claim that the company had abandoned its original intention to be a non-profit. gave his own rebuttal.

The response article was written by five of OpenAI’s co-founders, who added: “As we discuss a for-profit structure to advance the company’s mission,Musk wants us to work with Tesla mergeror he wants complete control."

"We cannot agree with Musk on for-profit terms because we believe it would be unlawful for any individual to have absolute control of OpenAI Mission."

And Musk claimed in the indictment that OpenAI has become Microsoft's "de facto closed source subsidiary" and focuses on making money rather than benefiting mankind. OpenAI therefore gave up its original Non-profit missionfunded by him.

Musk believes that this constitutes a breach of contract. Although Musk mentioned OpenAI's "founding agreement" in the complaint, no formal agreement has been disclosed so far, and OpenAI's post did not directly respond to the question of whether an agreement exists.

05. OpenAI’s former head of developer relations posted again

On March 5, OpenAI’s former developer relations director Logan posted again, expressing my longing for chief scientist Ilya.

And In the dispute between Ultraman and OpenAI last year, Ilya was the first to strike out, leading the board of directors to expel Ultraman, and always insisted on his and the other three board members' decision to remove Ultraman.

Even posted an article saying, "Firing Ultraman is the 'only way' to defend the company's mission. Ultraman's behavior and interactions with the board of directors have weakened my ability to supervise the company's AI development." .”

At this critical moment, Logan’s post is indeed thought-provoking.

06. Musk insinuated that OpenAI should be renamed "ClosedAI"

The latest situation is that in the face of the "email" evidence released by OpenAI, Musk said that he would drop the lawsuit if OpenAI changed its name to ClosedAI, insinuating OpenAI’s non-open source behavior.

Then , netizens quickly made related pictures, and the sense of irony was immediately filled.

Tight Then, Musk himself posted another picture about Ultraman, but Ultraman’s work badge was photoshopped. The English letters “ClosedAI” were extremely eye-catching, and the entire tweet was full of provocation.

Look Do you now roughly understand the ins and outs of things? But this matter is not over yet. It is estimated that more big melons will be exposed one after another, so let’s move the small bench and continue to watch the game.