OpenAI was supposed to be the antidote to the dangers of artificial intelligence by keeping profits out it and focusing on humanity.
Obviously, there's nothing wrong with being a for-profit business. But there is something notable in OpenAI's about-face given how it was founded and by whom.and Y Combinator chairman Sam Altman in December 2015 with a $1 billion endowment.That $1 billion came from Musk and other tech bigwigs such as Reid Hoffman, Y Combinator founder Jessica Livingston, famed VC Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services , Infosys, and YC Research.
He is not formally involved with OpenAI LP, the for-profit company, it says, however his name remains associated with OpenAI as a founder and contributor to its original $1 billion kitty.from OpenAI to work on Tesla's self-driving cars some months before he left the board. OpenAI was founded in part because of Musk's concerns about the potential dangers of AI. Back in 2014 at at talk at MIT, he said AI was humanity's"biggest existential threat" and likened the tech to"summoning the demon."
OpenAI was intended to be the anecdote in that it would create all sorts of AI technologies but would freely give them to world. If everyone had AI, than one side couldn't use it to subjugate another, the theory went, and if profits were not the focus the group was free to work solely on projects to help humanity.
"Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact," the organization said in a blog post in 2015
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