According to news on November 27, in 2015, Elon Musk played an important role in Ilya Sutskever joining OpenAI as chief scientist. Now, the Tesla CEO wants to know what Sutschifer saw in the startup that scared him so much that he wanted to fire CEO Sam Altman.
Sutskefer was recently described by Musk as a "good guy" with a "kind heart" and "the key to OpenAI's success." He previously served as a member of the OpenAI board of directors, which announced the dismissal of Altman on November 18. In fact, it was Sützkefer who notified Altman of his dismissal. However, driven by investors led by Microsoft, the OpenAI board of directors was reorganized and Altman was successfully reinstated.
Last Monday, Sützkefer changed his stance, writing on social media platform X: "I deeply regret my involvement in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI."
But Musk and others in the tech industry, including those who mocked Altman’s firing, remain curious about what Sultzkefer saw at OpenAI.
Late Thursday, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen asked in a post on
The answer remains a mystery. The OpenAI board of directors was vague about the reasons for firing Altman and has not revealed much information since.
OpenAI's goal is to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) and ensure that it "benefits all mankind." AGI refers to systems that can perform on par with human abilities when faced with unfamiliar tasks.
OpenAI uses a unique corporate structure that places a non-profit board of directors over a profit-capped company. If the board of directors believes that commercialization of potentially dangerous artificial intelligence technology is advancing at an unsafe rate, it can fire the CEO.
Last Thursday, several OpenAI researchers warned the board of directors in a letter that a new type of artificial intelligence could pose a threat to humanity. Subsequently, OpenAI sent an internal email acknowledging a project called Q* (Q-star). Some employees believed that this may be the company's project seeking an AGI breakthrough.
Q* reportedly performed well on basic math tests, showing reasoning abilities that differed from chat GPT's behavior.
Musk has been warning about the potential threat of artificial intelligence to humanity, although he also sees the benefits of artificial intelligence, and now his xAI company offers a ChatGPT competitor called Grok.
Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and helped attract key talent, including Sutzkefer, but he left after a few years. Musk later complained that he had hoped the nonprofit could rival Google's dominance in artificial intelligence, but now it appears to have become a "profit-maximizing closed source effectively controlled by Microsoft."
Previously, Musk expressed his views on the OpenAI board’s decision to fire Altman. "Given the risks and power of advanced artificial intelligence, the public deserves to know why the board believes they must take such drastic action," he wrote.
When a user of social media platform
After changing his stance last Monday, Sützkefer responded to Ultraman's return on Wednesday, writing: "No words can express how happy I am." (Little)
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