Elon Musk, a founding board member and investor of OpenAI, has taken legal action against the company and its CEO Sam Altman. The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI, now financed by Microsoft, has deviated from its original mission to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) for the benefit of humanity. The lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court of California in the County of San Francisco, claiming that OpenAI and its founders breached the company’s founding agreement by keeping GPT-4’s internal engine secret.
The lawsuit further states that OpenAI was intended to be a non-profit organization developing AGI for the benefit of humanity, not for a for-profit company seeking to maximize shareholder profits. It also alleges that Altman, after being ousted in November, joined forces with Microsoft to return to the company and remove board members that wanted to adhere to the founding agreement.
Musk’s concerns about AGI are reflected in the lawsuit, as he has iterated several times that the technology needs to be carefully handled and regulated. The lawsuit also challenges Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI and clarifies that Microsoft has obtained no rights to AGI and that its license only applies to OpenAI’s pre-AGI technology or its GPT-3 large language model.
2024-03-04 09:00:04
Source from www.computerworld.com