This is Elon Musk’s harsh lawsuit against OpenAI: it does not benefit humanity

A very harsh lawsuit was filed this Thursday, February 29th. Elon Musk in San Francisco court, in the company OpenAI, of which he was a shareholder at the time.

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Musk claims that OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft has transformed the organization “into a closed-source subsidiary of Microsoft that focuses on maximizing profits.”

According to the lawsuit, such actions constitute a violation of the founding agreement between Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 but no longer retains a stake in the company.

What else does the lawsuit say?

• It accuses Sam Altman and company of violating the design of OpenAI’s GPT-4 model, which was a “complete secret,” and the lawsuit claims that the decision was “primarily driven by commercial considerations rather than security” and that the GPT-4 model 4 is now “Microsoft’s de facto proprietary algorithm.”
• The suit claims that the GPT-4 model, released by OpenAI in March 2023, is not only capable of reasoning, but also “reasons better than normal humans,” scoring in the 90th percentile on uniform testing. .
• “The new Board members lack significant experience in the field of artificial intelligence and, on information and belief, are ill-prepared to make an independent determination of whether and when OpenAI has achieved AGI and developed an algorithm that is outside its scope of competency. Microsoft licenses,” the lawsuit says.

The lawsuit seeks to force OpenAI to adhere to its founding agreement and “return to its mission of advancing AGI for the benefit of humanity” rather than benefiting Altman, Brockman and Microsoft, “the world’s largest technology company.”