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Submission + - OpenAI publishes Elon Musk's emails. 'We're sad that it's come to this' (cnn.com)

ArchieBunker writes: OpenAI fired back at Elon Musk, who sued the ChatGPT company last week for chasing profit and diverging from its original, nonprofit mission. Tuesday night, OpenAI published several of Musk’s emails from the early days of the company that appear to show Musk acknowledging OpenAI needed to make a ton of money to fund the incredible computing resources needed to power its AI ambitions.

In the emails, parts of which have been redacted, Musk argues that the company stood virtually no chance of building a successful generative AI platform by raising cash alone, and the company needed to find alternate sources of revenue to survive.

In a November 22, 2015, email to CEO Sam Altman, Musk, an OpenAI co-founder, said the company needed to raise much more than $100 million to “avoid sounding hopeless.” Musk suggested a $1 billion funding commitment and promised that he would cover whatever did not get raised.

OpenAI in a blog post Tuesday night said Musk never followed through on his promise, committing $45 million in funding for OpenAI, while other donors raised $90 million. Lawyers for Musk declined to comment on OpenAI’s claims.

Comment Re:This moves pollution, not cuts it (Score 1) 29

Fringe envirokooks aside, nobody wants nukes because they're too expensive and over-regulated. I follow with great interest news about anyone trying to make a standardized, commodity-grade reactor, even if their name does rhyme with Still Plates.

https://www.energy.gov/ne/adva...

Comment And why wasn't the dog on a leash? (Score 4, Informative) 204

Leash laws exist for good reasons. Preventing this is one of them.

While many owners teach their dogs to stay close when off leash, not all dogs are predictable, especially when around other dogs. In order to prevent potential issues San Francisco introduced Sec. 41.12 of the city’s health code requiring that whenever off your own personal property, a dog must be on a leash no longer than 8 feet in length.

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