OpenAI’s Sam Altman Mocks Elon Musk’s Foray Into AI, Reacts To Experts Open Letter For Pausing Experiments

Remember these tweets?

OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it “Open” AI), non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft.

Not what I intended at all.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2023

Extremely concerning

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 24, 2023

Elon Musk had always been opposed to the latest development at Open AI. He raised concerns about Sam Altman’s ChatGPT’s latest iteration. Having questioned Sam’s integrity earlier of turning the AI venture into for-profit, Elon Musk, a former investor in OpenAI never leaves an opportunity to ridicule AI. He seemed quite miffed over Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI to leverage ChatGPT. Despite his ‘concerning’ remark over AI, the billionaire himself launched his AI venture X dot AI. Incorporated in Nevada on March 9th, 2023, the company bears the hallmark ‘X’ of its core brand. And look how Sam Altman reacted to the news –

Concerning

— Sam Altman (@sama) April 14, 2023

🤣

— Sam Altman (@sama) April 14, 2023

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Ironically, Elon Musk had been one of the signatories of the ‘Pause Giant AI Experiments’ open letter by Future of Life Institute. It was signed by luminaries like Steve Wozniak, Yuval Noval Harari, several CEOs, leading AI experts, and policy makers. The letter released on March 22, 2023, called for an immediate halt on all sorts of development across the AI industry. It specifically urged that for the next 6 months all AI labs should immediately pause training their artificial intelligence system more powerful than ChatGPT-4. The foundation also released a ‘Policymaking for Pause’ with 7 policies. It included mandatory third party auditing and certification and regulations in the industry, besides expanding funds for AI safety research.

📢 We’re calling on AI labs to temporarily pause training powerful models!

Join FLI’s call alongside Yoshua Bengio, @stevewoz, @harari_yuval, @elonmusk, @GaryMarcus & over a 1000 others who’ve signed: https://t.co/3rJBjDXapc

A short 🧵on why we’re calling for this – (1/8)

— Future of Life Institute (@FLIxrisk) March 29, 2023

We’ve called on AI labs to temporarily pause the training of powerful models until they have protocols to ensure their systems are safe.

Regardless of whether the labs heed our call, we’ve published a policy brief that provides concrete recommendations for how governments can… pic.twitter.com/baDSxsDCtB

— Future of Life Institute (@FLIxrisk) April 13, 2023

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All along, there had been news of development of ChatGPT-5. When probed in a recent talk at an MIT event, Sam Altman’s reaction was not in consensus with the signatories of the open letter. The OpenAI founder stated that the letter lacked the technical nuances on where we need to make a stop. He however remarked that there are parts of the letter he does agree with. Sam also said that there have been no works on ChatGPT-5 either.

Today at MIT: Sam Altman and Lex Fridman round 2 whereby Sam confirms that there is no gpt5 in the works and responds to the letter calling for a 6 month halt in AI. @sama @lexfridman @MIT pic.twitter.com/vajkoFuSMQ

— Amy Robinson Sterling (@amyneurons) April 13, 2023

Meanwhile, this is how Twitter reacted to Sam Altman’s reaction to Elon Musk’s foray into AI.

🤣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🛸

Aliens watching the new season of earth excited af right now pic.twitter.com/L6mul4g9Wy

— 🕳️ (@12jungian) April 15, 2023

Genius one word tweet.

— Azeem Azhar (@azeem) April 15, 2023

Elon looking at this reply pic.twitter.com/mNCdrVuU3O

— Wall Street Memes (@wallstmemes) April 15, 2023

Elon: OpenAI you need to slow down so we can catch up.

— Timothy Kassis (@TimothyKassis) April 15, 2023