Elon Musk has a controversial relationship with AI technology – he helped found OpenAI alongside Sam Altman in front of them the famous fall and signed an open letter calling for a “pause” in AI development. Then, in November In 2023, Musk launched a chatbot through his company x.AI called Grok, available to premium X users.
But after Apple revealed on Monday 2024 World Conference of Developers that OpenAI and its software will be integrated into new Apple products, Musk is threatening to ban Apple products at all of his companies.
In response to the presentation, Musk posted a series of thoughts on his social media platform X, noting that employees at Tesla and X would have to check their devices into a “cage” after entering the office if they used Apple to any of their staff. equipment.
And visitors will have to check their Apple devices at the door, where they will be stored in a Faraday cage
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 10, 2024
“It's completely absurd that Apple isn't smart enough to make its own AI, but is somehow capable of ensuring that OpenAI will protect your security and privacy,” Musk wrote in one. POST. “Apple has no idea what's really going on after they hand over your data to OpenAI. They're selling you down the river.”
Musk then reposted a clip of a sit-down interview he had with Walter Isaacson about it Vanity Fair in 2014, where he warned of the “rise and dangers” of AI before joining forces with Altman to launch what would become Open AI.
“I don't think most people realize how fast machine intelligence is advancing,” the billionaire warned. “If there is a digital super-intelligence and its optimization or utility function is something that is harmful to humanity, then it would have a very bad effect.”
Musk notoriously sued Altman and OpenAI claimed in March that the company is no longer working on its founding principles of working toward the “greater benefit of humanity” and has instead shifted to a for-profit focus.
The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI did this through its agreement with Microsoft and the release of Chat GPT-4.
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“Under its new Board, (OpenAI) is not only developing, but actually refining an AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) to maximize profits for Microsoft, rather than for the benefit of humanity,” it said. in the lawsuit.
In response, OpenAI released an open letter criticizing the “frivolous” lawsuit.
“Musk's claims rest on complicated – often incoherent – factual premises”, the company said in that time. “Musk says his Founding Agreement was 'remembered,' but any actual agreement is conspicuously absent from the plea.”