Sam Altman’s Proposal To Elon Musk: We Were Both Wrong: Now Let’s Be Friends OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reached out to Tesla CEO Elon Musk after Musk resurfaced old posts criticising US President Donald Trump.
Altman said that human-level artificial general intelligence (AGI) is more important than their dispute.
On May 10, Musk responded to Altman’s nearly decade-old post. In that post, Altman claimed that he would never vote for Donald Trump. Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham wrote in a post on October 18, 2016, “Few people have done as much to defeat Trump as Sam Altman.”
After Musk reshared the same old conversation, Altman posted an article in The Guardian. In the article, Musk said, “I don’t hate the guy (Donald Trump). But it’s time for Trump to hang up his hat and ride off into the sunset.”
Altman shared a link to the article and wrote, “We were both wrong. Or at least I was definitely wrong. But that was 2016, and this is 2022.”
His campaign for the Republican presidential nomination played a significant role in changing the outcome. Meanwhile, Altman has also shown a significant shift in his political stance by contributing to the $500 billion ‘Project Stargate’ to build AI infrastructure in the US.
Musk has been critical of the direction OpenAI is taking under Altman’s leadership. OpenAI, which Musk, the owner of X, co-founded in 2015, was founded as a non-profit organisation. But Altman had sought to turn the company into a for-profit. After months of uncertainty, OpenAI announced earlier this week that the non-profit organisation would retain control of the company.
AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) is a hypothetical machine that has the ability to understand, learn and apply knowledge in various fields, just like humans.
