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Elon Musk to Ilya Sutskever and Greg Brockman, February 1, 2018

Musk forwards Karpathy's reply to Sutskever and Brockman with his comment on Tesla as a path.

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Elon Musk
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Thursday, February 1, 2018 3:52 AM
To
Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman
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Top AI institutions today
[Forwarded previous message from Andrej] Andrej is exactly right. We may wish it otherwise, but, in my and Andrej’s opinion, Tesla is the only path that could even hope to hold a candle to Google. Even then, the probability of being a counterweight to Google is small. It just isn’t zero.
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The whole thread

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  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…