According to the Observer, according to Bloomberg, Tesla boss Elon Musk sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman in a San Francisco court. Musk said that OpenAI is now equivalent to a subsidiary of Microsoft, just for Microsoft to make money, regardless of the original intention of benefiting all mankind.
Musk used to co-founded OpenAI, but now he no longer holds a stake in OpenAI. According to Musk, OpenAI has now become a closed-source subsidiary of Microsoft, but the funny thing is that to this day, OpenAI's ** still hangs a slogan of purpose: to ensure that artificial intelligence is used to benefit all mankind.
Why does Musk think that OpenAI is now just a company that only knows how to make profits?
In the lawsuit documents, Musk specifically emphasized that the GPT-4 released by OpenAI is a closed model, which is inconsistent with the previous open source version, and OpenAI does this for the sake of making money, not for the public good. The document compares OpenAI's AGI achievements to the "tomorrow" in "Annie", which is always far away. It was also said that Microsoft was licensed to OpenAI's latest technology, but the general public was excluded, completely deviating from the original agreement.
The document mentions that only OpenAI and Microsoft know the internal details of GPT-4, which makes GPT-4 the antithesis of "closed AI". This closure is for commercial reasons: Microsoft wants to maximize profits by selling GPT-4, which defeats the original purpose of promoting the interests of all mankind in the first place. The defendant did not choose GPT-4 for the benefit of mankind, but as a patented technology in order to achieve the goal of making the most money.
The lawsuit documents also mention OpenAI's mysterious Q* project. It was previously reported that before Ultraman was killed, several researchers wrote to the OpenAI board of directors stating that a powerful discovery in a certain AI aspect could be dangerous to humans. The progress of the Q* project has led some people within the company to feel that this may be the key breakthrough point for them to find "superintelligence" (i.e., AGI).
Musk is obsessed with the lawsuit, and his demands include restoring OpenAI to open source and a court injunction prohibiting OpenAI, its president, and Ultraman from profiting from it. Musk's lawsuit this time is very emotional, and it has also made the public begin to scrutinize Musk.
What kind of person is Musk?
Musk has always been regarded as an idol by some young people in my country, Musk's successful experience even surpasses most of the blood-burning articles, Musk's success is so natural, and now Musk's identity does not seem to be described as a simple businessman.
Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, and Star Shield are all unique achievements, and each of them seems to be founded for the sake of humanity. Musk seems to be very obsessed with benefiting mankind, but is Musk really benefiting mankind?
Take Starlink as an example, Musk has always emphasized that it is for the benefit of mankind, but many experts are warning that SpaceX's Starlink project may create a large amount of space junk and pose a serious threat to space security.
Once the Starlink satellite changes its orbit from 290 kilometers to 550 kilometers, it will pass through the altitude range of satellites of many countries, including China's space station. If these satellites fail and get out of control at an altitude of 550 km, they will become stray objects in space, and it is not known which country's satellite will be hit. Moreover, the debris produced by the satellite** will threaten more spacecraft like a nuclear **.
Not only that, Starlink has always been dressed in a civilian cloak for the benefit of mankind, but it is openly launching the Starlink military version of the Starshield program, the "Starshield" satellite project, which is dedicated to providing services for the **, defense and intelligence departments. Using the technology and rocket launch capabilities of the Starlink satellite, it can provide space and ground services to customers, including earth observation, secure communications and payload hosting.
This move not only exposes the tearing off of the "civilian" guise of Space X, revealing its "military" purpose, but also exposes the ambition of the United States to become a "hegemon" in space.
Star Shield "plans to put more than 150,000 satellites are planned to be launched and assembled within three years. These satellites can not only communicate, navigate, and remotely sensing, but also provide services such as encrypted data transmission and battlefield information perception. This project will provide encrypted private network services, just like the encrypted servers of the intelligence services. Communication has always been the main business of Starlink, and their performance in the Russia-Ukraine conflict has been verified.
In this way, Musk does not seem to be an advocate of "benefiting mankind", but Musk has refused to help Ukrainian drones attack Russia, and even if he was scolded for treason, he has not wavered.
Musk is always so unpredictable, but people always have two sides, and a gentleman doesn't care about his deeds.