I know it’s incredibly unpopular to agree with anything that Elon Musk says or does these days. But I actually have some moderately high hopes for this.
Elon has always been a voice of reason and caution in the field of AI, and has been fighting to keep AI ethical since long before AI made the public spotlight.
I don’t know the details of the events leading up to Elon’s departure from OpenAi, and we can only speculate as to what would have happened if he hadn’t left. (I’m sure some of you would speculate that he would run the company into the ground like twitter).
But what I can say, is that I was (and still am) extremely disappointed to see OpenAi become a closed-source & for profit venture, doing billion dollar dealings with Microsoft. This spits in the face of the initial vision of the company, and they are no longer deserving of having the word ‘Open’ in their name.
I have some major concerns that AI is now missing its top ‘ethical’ player, right as the race explodes. We sorely need a strong voice of reason in the industry, that can help push through sensible laws that simultaneously enable AI, whilest protecting the public from gross overreaches by Silicon Valley.
Now as for Elon’s new project:
I certainly have a healthy dose of scepticism.
I doubt it will be anything close to what OpenAi once promised to be. But I’d still put more faith in it being a ‘responsible’ AI, than anything developed or funded by Google, Meta, Amazon, or Microsoft.
I know it’s incredibly unpopular to agree with anything that Elon Musk says or does these days. But I actually have some moderately high hopes for this.
Elon has always been a voice of reason and caution in the field of AI, and has been fighting to keep AI ethical since long before AI made the public spotlight.
I don’t know the details of the events leading up to Elon’s departure from OpenAi, and we can only speculate as to what would have happened if he hadn’t left. (I’m sure some of you would speculate that he would run the company into the ground like twitter).
But what I can say, is that I was (and still am) extremely disappointed to see OpenAi become a closed-source & for profit venture, doing billion dollar dealings with Microsoft. This spits in the face of the initial vision of the company, and they are no longer deserving of having the word ‘Open’ in their name.
I have some major concerns that AI is now missing its top ‘ethical’ player, right as the race explodes. We sorely need a strong voice of reason in the industry, that can help push through sensible laws that simultaneously enable AI, whilest protecting the public from gross overreaches by Silicon Valley.
Now as for Elon’s new project: I certainly have a healthy dose of scepticism. I doubt it will be anything close to what OpenAi once promised to be. But I’d still put more faith in it being a ‘responsible’ AI, than anything developed or funded by Google, Meta, Amazon, or Microsoft.