OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman have been accused by Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Elon Musk of violating the original contractual agreement related to AI and have filed a lawsuit against them in a court in San Francisco in the US.
The lawsuit filed by Elon Musk in a court in San Francisco in the US against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman centers around OpenAI’s latest natural language model GPT-4.
Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in OpenAI company run by Sam Altman. SpaceX Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Elon Musk accused OpenAI and Microsoft, saying that OpenAI and Microsoft had agreed regarding the use of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) capabilities in the interest of humanity and non-profit. But it did not happen. GPT-4 is improperly licensed.
The lawsuit, filed in a San Francisco court, says Musk has long considered AGI capabilities a serious threat to humanity. In today’s time, the capabilities of AGI have been considered the biggest existential threat.
The complaints detailed in the lawsuit filed by Elon Musk include breach of basic contractual agreement related to AI, unfair business practices, and breach of duty to act in the best interests of the other party.
Elon Musk, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Tesla and SpaceX until 2018, was an original board member of OpenAI.
According to the lawsuit filed, OpenAI’s initial research was done in order to “provide free and public access to its designs, models, and code.”
When OpenAI researchers discovered that an algorithm called “Transformers,” originally invented by Google, could perform many natural language tasks without any explicit training, the model, which is released by OpenAI, became perfect for its expansion. The community came forward.
In 2019, Sam Altman became the CEO of OpenAI. OpenAI entered into an agreement with Microsoft on September 22, 2020, to exclusively license OpenAI’s Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT)-3 language model to Microsoft.
The most serious thing is that the Microsoft license applies only to OpenAI’s pre-AGI technology, the lawsuit says. Microsoft did not get any rights on AGI. It was up to OpenAI’s non-profit board to decide whether OpenAI would reach the AGI stage. Microsoft does not have the authority to decide this.
Regarding the lawsuit filed, Elon Musk said that this lawsuit has been filed to force OpenAI to follow the agreement that was made at the time of establishment. So that OpenAI’s mission of developing AGI for the benefit of humanity can be fulfilled. OpenAI’s mission is not to personally benefit individual defendants and the world’s largest technology company, but to develop AGI for the benefit of humanity.