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Elon Musk to Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever and Sam Altman, January 31, 2018

Musk forwards Karpathy's ICLR data to OpenAI's leaders along with his view of OpenAI relative to Google, the ICO idea and his future engagement.

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From
Elon Musk
Sent
Wednesday, January 31, 2018 2:02 PM
To
Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Sam Altman
Cc
Sam Teller, Shivon Zilis
Subject
Top AI institutions today
OpenAI is on a path of certain failure relative to Google. There obviously needs to be immediate and dramatic action or everyone except for Google will be consigned to irrelevance. I have considered the ICO approach and will not support it. In my opinion, that would simply result in a massive loss of credibility for OpenAI and everyone associated with the ICO. If something seems too good to be true, it is. This was, in my opinion, an unwise diversion. The only paths I can think of are a major expansion of OpenAI and a major expansion of Tesla AI. Perhaps both simultaneously. The former would require a major increase in funds donated and highly credible people joining our board. The current board situation is very weak. I will set up a time for us to talk tomorrow. To be clear, I have a lot of respect for your abilities and accomplishments, but I am not happy with how things have been managed. That is why I have had trouble engaging with OpenAI in recent months. Either we fix things and my engagement increases a lot or we don’t and I will drop to near zero and publicly reduce my association. I will not be in a situation where the perception of my influence and time doesn’t match the reality.
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The whole thread

  1. Jan 31, 2018 Andrej Karpathy The ICLR conference (which is the top deep learning - specific conference (NIPS is larger, but more diffuse))…
  2. Jan 31, 2018 Andrej Karpathy Working at the cutting edge of AI is unfortunately expensive. For example, DeepMind's operating expenses in…
  3. Jan 31, 2018 Elon Musk OpenAI is on a path of certain failure relative to Google. There obviously needs to be immediate and dramatic…
  4. Jan 31, 2018 Elon Musk fyi What do you think makes sense? Happy to talk by phone if that’s better.
  5. Feb 1, 2018 Elon Musk [Forwarded previous message from Andrej] Andrej is exactly right. We may wish it otherwise, but, in my and…