23. Mr. Altman purported to share Mr. Musk’s concerns over the threat posed by AGI.
In 2015, Mr. Altman wrote that the “[d]evelopment of superhuman machine intelligence (SMI) is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity. There are other threats that I think are more certain to happen . . . but are unlikely to destroy every human in the universe in the
way that SMI could.” Later that same year, Mr. Altman approached Mr. Musk with a proposal: that they join forces to form a non-profit AI lab that would try to catch up to Google in the race for AGI, but it would be the opposite of Google.
24. Together with Mr. Brockman, the three agreed that this new lab: (a) would be a nonprofit developing AGI for the benefit of humanity, not for a for-profit company seeking to maximize shareholder profits; and (b) would be open-source, balancing only countervailing safety considerations, and would not keep its technology closed and secret for proprietary commercial reasons (The “Founding Agreement”). Reflecting the Founding Agreement, Mr. Musk named this new AI lab “OpenAI,” which would compete with, and serve as a vital counterbalance to,
Google/DeepMind in the race for AGI, but would do so to benefit humanity, not the shareholders of a private, for-profit company (much less one of the largest technology companies in the world).
[...]
>"C. The 2023 Breach Of The Founding Agreement
29. In 2023, Defendants Mr. Altman, Mr. Brockman, and OpenAI set the Founding
Agreement aflame.
30. In March 2023, OpenAI released its most powerful language model yet, GPT-4.
GPT-4 is not just capable of reasoning. It is better at reasoning than average humans. It scored in the 90th percentile on the Uniform Bar Exam for lawyers. It scored in the 99th percentile on the GRE Verbal Assessment. It even scored a 77% on the Advanced Sommelier examination. At this time, Mr. Altman caused OpenAI to radically depart from its original mission and historical practice of making its technology and knowledge available to the public. GPT-4’s internal design was kept and remains a complete secret except to OpenAI—and, on information and belief, Microsoft. There are no scientific publications describing the design of GPT-4. Instead, there are just press releases bragging about performance.
On information and belief,
this secrecy is primarily driven by commercial considerations, not safety."
What an interesting case!
We'll see how it turns out...
(Note that I don't think that Elon Musk or Sam Altman or Greg Brockman are "bad people" and/or "unethical actors" -- quite the opposite! Each is a luminary in their own light; in their own domains -- in their own areas of influence! I feel that men of such high and rare intelligence as all three of them are -- should be making peace amongst themselves!)
23. Mr. Altman purported to share Mr. Musk’s concerns over the threat posed by AGI.
In 2015, Mr. Altman wrote that the “[d]evelopment of superhuman machine intelligence (SMI) is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity. There are other threats that I think are more certain to happen . . . but are unlikely to destroy every human in the universe in the way that SMI could.” Later that same year, Mr. Altman approached Mr. Musk with a proposal: that they join forces to form a non-profit AI lab that would try to catch up to Google in the race for AGI, but it would be the opposite of Google.
24. Together with Mr. Brockman, the three agreed that this new lab: (a) would be a nonprofit developing AGI for the benefit of humanity, not for a for-profit company seeking to maximize shareholder profits; and (b) would be open-source, balancing only countervailing safety considerations, and would not keep its technology closed and secret for proprietary commercial reasons (The “Founding Agreement”). Reflecting the Founding Agreement, Mr. Musk named this new AI lab “OpenAI,” which would compete with, and serve as a vital counterbalance to, Google/DeepMind in the race for AGI, but would do so to benefit humanity, not the shareholders of a private, for-profit company (much less one of the largest technology companies in the world).
[...]
>"C. The 2023 Breach Of The Founding Agreement
29. In 2023, Defendants Mr. Altman, Mr. Brockman, and OpenAI set the Founding Agreement aflame.
30. In March 2023, OpenAI released its most powerful language model yet, GPT-4. GPT-4 is not just capable of reasoning. It is better at reasoning than average humans. It scored in the 90th percentile on the Uniform Bar Exam for lawyers. It scored in the 99th percentile on the GRE Verbal Assessment. It even scored a 77% on the Advanced Sommelier examination. At this time, Mr. Altman caused OpenAI to radically depart from its original mission and historical practice of making its technology and knowledge available to the public. GPT-4’s internal design was kept and remains a complete secret except to OpenAI—and, on information and belief, Microsoft. There are no scientific publications describing the design of GPT-4. Instead, there are just press releases bragging about performance.
On information and belief,
this secrecy is primarily driven by commercial considerations, not safety."
What an interesting case!
We'll see how it turns out...
(Note that I don't think that Elon Musk or Sam Altman or Greg Brockman are "bad people" and/or "unethical actors" -- quite the opposite! Each is a luminary in their own light; in their own domains -- in their own areas of influence! I feel that men of such high and rare intelligence as all three of them are -- should be making peace amongst themselves!)
Anyway, it'll be an interesting case!
Related:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....