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OpenAI and Elon Musk Indulge in Blame Game

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LAHORE MIRROR (AFP/Reuters) — OpenAI and Elon Musk indulged in blame game as the former on Tuesday denied the latter’s accusations of “betrayal” of its original mission, saing it would push to have them dismissed in court.

The boss of Tesla, SpaceX and X was one of the co-founders of OpenAI in 2015 along with Sam Altman but left the organization in 2018.

Elon Musk launched a legal case against OpenAI last week, arguing in documents filed in a San Francisco court that the firm was always intended as a nonprofit entity.

“We intend to move to dismiss all of Elon’s claims,” OpenAI and its executives said in a blog post.

OpenAI captured the public imagination in late 2022 with the release of its chatbot ChatGPT, which can generate poems and essays and even succeed in exams.

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The firm started as a non-profit dedicated to developing “artificial general intelligence” (AGI), a term loosely defined as a kind of AI that would outstrip human capabilities on all measures of intelligence.

The aim was for OpenAI to guarantee that such technology would be safe for humanity. OpenAI has received about $13 billion in investment from Microsoft in recent years, and both companies market AI services to developers and individuals.

Tesla shares were down nearly 4% on Wednesday.
“(Musk) saw something early at OpenAI that he thought could benefit Tesla. At this point, the lawsuit seems like a frivolous distraction for the main mission at Tesla,” said Craig Irwin, senior research analyst at Roth Capital.

Some legal experts said Elon Musk’s allegations of breach of contract, based partly on an email between the Tesla and  X owner and OpenAI co-founders Altman, might not hold up in court.