Simcurious t1_jebn8iw wrote on March 30, 2023 at 8:54 PM

It is a ploy for Musk to catch up though. He hates openAi for not making him ceo: https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-history-of-elon-musk-sam-altman-and-openai

He withdrew funding and is launching a competitor, these 6 months are perfect for him to catch up.

Also most of the funding for that institute that created this letter comes from... You guessed it... Elon Musk

blueSGL t1_jecuq9j wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:06 AM

Was Elon Musk planning this back in 2014 too?

Playing the long game?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_on_Artificial_Intelligence

https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/ai-open-letter/

Gotisdabest t1_jed9ddx wrote on March 31, 2023 at 4:12 AM

So wrote a letter asking for more cooperation in a field he was behind in 9 years ago, around the time he was starting to harp on about how FSD was just around the corner.... And now when he's still behind... He's asking for a pause... Seems fairly consistent to me.

QuartzPuffyStar OP t1_jebqcwb wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:14 PM

I dont trust neither Musk, nor OpenAI. I really dont care about him, and I believe it would have been a lot better if the letter was only signed by people directly involved in the research, as the guys from Deep Mind.

The presence of business people there just geopardized the whole thing. And they haven't even wrote it.