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5 revealing details from OpenAI’s emails with Elon Musk


OpenAI dropped a new blog post that responded to the lawsuit Elon Musk filed last week against the company — and included receipts.

But OpenAI responded aggressively, and brought receipts — posting copies of emails between Musk, Altman, Brockman and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. Request an invite In a response to Sutskever saying that starting to be less open “will make sense” as OpenAI gets closer to building AI, and that “it’s totally OK to not share the science,” Musk responded with a single word: “Yup.” The email forwarded by Musk to Sutskever and Brockman, from February 2018, pointed out that a for-profit pivot “might create a more sustainable revenue stream over time and would, with the current team, likely bring in a lot of investment.” However, building a product from scratch would be too difficult to scale and steal focus from research.

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