In 2015 OpenAI Inc. was founded as a non-profit to develop open-source artificial intelligence technology to benefit the entirety of humanity. The dream of an open and altruistic AI died two years later on December 22, 2017. This post explores what went wrong. Here is a video of Elon Musk describing the company.
What went wrong at OpenAI? Why did Sam and his team decide to abandon Elon Musk's vision for the company?
Sam transferred all of the non-profit OpenAI Inc's technology to his own for-profit OpenAI LP and today the technology is under the control of Microsoft - exactly what Elon Musk sought to avoid.
