Comment by leobg
3 years ago
Dude. Read the tweet in context [1]. He was responding to this headline:
“The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race."
Most likely, he was thinking of the dangers of AI (hence “might” - because we still don’t know).
[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1667627403089268739?s=46...
If that's the case, it's still hypocritical - he was one of the early investors in OpenAI: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-openai-reason-exis...
You haven’t followed the story at all, have you?
He founded OpenAI to prevent an outcome where AGI is developed closed source by a single corporation - which he thought would likely be Google. Elon founding OpenAI actually led to him falling out with Larry Page, who used to be a good friend of Elon (but who didn’t share these concerns about AI).
It is ironic that it’s now OpenAI that partnered with Microsoft and runs GPT-3/4/x on a closed source basis. This is the opposite of what Elon wanted to achieve, and what he had in mind when he named the venture “OpenAI”.
Elon (who left OpenAI in 2018) has criticized OpenAI for this many times over the last months. He says OpenAI has taken donations as a non profit and then turned around and made themselves into a closed source for-profit.