TLDR (2015-2024):
- Elon wanted to stop Demis & Deepmind from creating an AGI dictatorship.
- He appointed himself as a CEO.
- Greg and Ilya said: but Elon, now can easily become the AGI dictator.
- Sam had his own party going, trying to get control, Ilya accused him being driven by money and politics instead of AGI.
- Karpathy offered to merge OpenAi into Tesla. Elon liked the idea, others didn’t.
- Elon said, let’s merge it with Tesla so that Tesla funds openai and keeps it being non profit.
- Sam and Greg decided to find alternative ways to fund the company.
- Sam wanted to do an IC0. Elon said it’ll make people think OpenAi is a scam.
- They went for Microsoft deal instead.
- Elon didn’t like the Microsoft deal and wanted to be the CEO, so he left in 2018 and stopped funding them.
- Sam said he is enthusiastic about non profit future and earned CEO title.
- Sam turned OpenAI into capped profit
- Sam was fired by Ilya for thinking more about monetization than democratization of safe AGi.
- Sam was brought back by Satya and Twitter “openai is nothing without its people”
- Ilya was fired by Sam
- Sam turned openai into for-profit.
- Elon started XAI to build his own AgI
- Ilya started SSI to build safe AGI
- Greg left OpenAI, possibly tried to get into SSI, was rejected and returned back to Sam
- But it all doesn’t really matter anymore, since LLMs reached the ceiling of scaling and won’t lead us to the AGI
- Sam recently said “I know the worth to AGi now”, which is a fundraising play
That’s it. Good night.
Elon Musk emails OpenAI cofounders
September 20, 2017