Re:Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
by iamcreasy on Monday July 22, 2019 @07:01PM
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Probably a bit off topic here, I was wondering if you could shade some light on why Elon Musk parted away from OpenAI. On Twitter he said he disagreed on what OpenAI wanted to do. Could you please tell me more on that? It seems what OpenAI is doing is pretty great.
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Sam Altman is on record saying that they asked him to leave because he recruited talent from OpenAI for his other companies. Sam seemed quite philosophical about it though and was complimentary to Musk otherwise. It doesn't sound like there was a ton of bad blood there.
Re:Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
by reeves23423 on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @08:36AM
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Is this the response you are referring to Sam Altman being on record https://openai.com/blog/openai-supporters/ ?
This might help answer that:
- https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Elon-Musk-quit-OpenAI-Is-he-af...
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-17/elon-musk...
Seems like an entirely reasonable choice. He’s actively commercializing AI and doesn’t want any impression of conflict of interest. Especially as now OpenAI has some clear commercialization plans directly with Microsoft.
From the article:
> The most obvious way to cover costs is to build a product, but that would mean changing our focus. Instead, we intend to license some of our pre-AGI technologies, with Microsoft becoming our preferred partner for commercializing them.
Talent will be the hardest challenge for OpenAI in order to reach their goals.