1) Demis Hassabis confronted Elon Musk about their open source vision for AGI, using a reference to the same article of Scott Alexander that you linked in your retrospective. Ilia Sutskever already commented it already back then in 2016 with “As we get closer to building AI, it will make sense to start being less open.”
- gdb: if you and sam get more involved, will be unstoppable.
- ilya: new structure will help a lot too.
- elon: alright sounds good. game is afoot. gonna be battle.
- gdb: pretty soon will remember the days when enemy was just DM.
- elon: hah. don’t want to pave road to hell with good intentions.
- ilya: don’t create the AGI before making it act in our best interests. should be fundamental tenant. especially once we have the 10GW datacenter, can do a lot of smart things, things they do should be good for us.
- elon: i feel fear. don’t know about you guys.
- gdb: used to feel born 10 years too late. missed the 90s. just grateful to have an opp to help this go well.
- elon: hard to believe this is real. reality is increasingly surreal.
- ilya: let’s hope it doesn’t take a negative turn.
- elon: don’t approach with too heavy a heart. it’s a serious matter. if things do go awry, enjoy these years on earth.
- gdb: mix of hedonistic parties and heads down writing code.
- elon: have a few parties, celebrate the wins. reasonably good time along the way.
Thanks for your recapitulation. I’m not very familiar with the early history of the field and found it quite informative.
I’ve just looked a bit through court documents of the Musk v. Altman lawsuit and found some notable exchanges but will limit it to two examples:
1) Demis Hassabis confronted Elon Musk about their open source vision for AGI, using a reference to the same article of Scott Alexander that you linked in your retrospective. Ilia Sutskever already commented it already back then in 2016 with “As we get closer to building AI, it will make sense to start being less open.”
2) Brockman’s journal contains this section from 2017: