OpenAI-ийн хамтран үүсгэн байгуулагч Грег Брокман “Маск ба Олтман” хэргийн шүүх хурал дээр 2017 оны зөрчилдөөнийг дэлгэв.
OpenAI-ийн хамтран үүсгэн байгуулагч, ерөнхийлөгч Грег Брокман мягмар гарагт холбооны шүүхэд өгсөн мэдүүлэгтээ 2017 оны наймдугаар сард Илон Маскийн Хиллсборо дахь 23 сая долларын үнэтэй харшид болсон чухал уулзалтын тухай дэлгэрэнгүй ярьжээ. Тэрээр OpenAI-ийн өөр нэг хамтран үүсгэн байгуулагч, тухайн үеийн ерөнхий эрдэмтэн Илья Суцкевертэй хамт Маскийн харшид компанийн ирээдүйг хэлэлцэхээр цугласан байв. Маск тэдэнд урьдчилан Tesla Model 3 машин бэлэглэсэн нь “өрөнд оруулах” гэсэн оролдлого байсан гэж Брокман мэдүүлэв.
Уулзалтын гол маргаан нь ашгийн төлөө салбар үүсгэх асуудал байжээ. Тооцооллын чадвар худалдан авахад шаардагдах тэрбум долларын хөрөнгө оруулалт татахын тулд хамтран үүсгэн байгуулагчид ашгийн төлөө бүтэц шаардлагатай гэж үзэж байсан ч, Маск компанийг бүрэн хяналтандаа авахыг хүссэн нь зөрчил үүсгэв. Брокман, Суцкевер нар үүнийг “хиймэл оюун ухааны хөгжлийн дарангуйлал” гэж тодорхойлж, хамтын хяналт тогтоохыг санал болгожээ.
Маск саналаас татгалзан, ширээний эргэн тойронд алхаж эхлэхэд Брокман “тэр намайг цохих гэж байна гэж бодсон” хэмээн өгүүлэв. Маск Суцкеверын зурсан Tesla-гийн зургийг авч, Брокман, Суцкевер нар огцрох хүртэл санхүүжилтээ зогсооно гэдгээ мэдэгдэн өрөөнөөс гарсан байна. Гэвч тэр шөнөө Маскийн ажлын албаны дарга Шивон Зилис залгаж, “энэ нь дуусаагүй” гэж мэдэгджээ.
Брокман өөр нэг тохиолдлыг дурдан, тухайн үеийн судлаач Алек Радфорд эртний AI чатботын хувилбарыг Маскт үзүүлэхэд тэрээр “энэ систем тэнэг, интернет дэх хүүхэд ч үүнээс илүүг хийж чадна” гэж байнга давтсан тухай ярив. Хожим нь ChatGPT-ийн үндэс болсон энэхүү технологийн боломжийг хармагц олж харж чадаагүй нь Маскийг OpenAI-г удирдахад тохиромжгүй гэдгийг харуулсан гэж Брокман үзэв.
Маск OpenAI-д хандивласан 38 сая долларын хандивыг Брокман болон бусад этгээдүүд буруугаар ашиглаж, одоогийн 852 тэрбум долларын үнэлгээтэй ашгийн төлөө компани болгосон гэж нэхэмжилж байна. Брокман, OpenAI-ийн гүйцэтгэх захирал Сэм Олтман, мөн OpenAI өөрөө аливаа зөрчил гаргасныг үгүйсгэж байгаа бөгөөд “Маск ба Олтман” хэргийн тангарагтан зөвлөмжийн шийдвэр гаргаж эхлэх боломжтой болоод байна.
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In August 2017, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever gathered at Elon Musk’s self-described “haunted mansion,” a 47-acre, $23 million estate in Hillsborough, south of San Francisco, to discuss the future of OpenAI. Actor Amber Heard, Musk’s then-girlfriend, had served the group whiskey and then dashed off with a friend, Brockman, OpenAI’s cofounder and president, testified in federal court during the trial for Musk v. Altman on Tuesday.
Ahead of the meeting, Musk gifted Brockman and Sutskever, OpenAI’s cofounder and former chief scientist, new Tesla Model 3 cars. “It felt like he was buttering us up,” Brockman said on the stand. “He wanted us to feel indebted to him in some way.” Sutskever tried to reciprocate for the occasion. The amateur artist presented Musk with a painting of a Tesla. Musk and the other cofounders wanted to establish a for-profit arm to entice investors to give them billions of dollars to pay for compute. But Musk also wanted control of the company, and Sutskever and Brockman objected to granting the Tesla CEO what they believed would be a “dictatorship” over the future of AI development. They proposed having shared control.
After several minutes of deliberation, Musk rejected their offer. “He stood up and stormed around the table,” Brockman recalled. “I actually thought he was going to hit me, physically attack me.” Musk grabbed the painting, said he would cut off his funding of the nonprofit until Brockman and Sutskever quit, and left the room, according to Brockman’s testimony. But that night, Musk’s so-called chief of staff Shivon Zilis called Brockman and Sutskever “to say it’s not over,” Brockman testified. “There were discussions of futures that included us.”
The story of the heated negotiations emerged as Brockman wrapped up his testimony on Tuesday. To OpenAI, the events at the mansion are representative of repeated instances of erratic behavior by Musk that they believe undermine his arguments about the company. Musk contends his roughly $38 million in donations to OpenAI were abused by Brockman and others on the path to creating the $852 billion for-profit venture now known for services such as ChatGPT and Codex. Brockman, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and OpenAI deny any wrongdoing, and the jury in Musk v. Altman could begin deliberating on an advisory ruling as soon as next week.
After Tuesday’s testimony, William Savitt, an attorney for OpenAI, told reporters that what Brockman had learned in 2017 was how tough it can be to meet one’s heroes. Brockman admired and respected Musk’s business acumen, but his desire for control was absolute and concerning, Savitt said. Marc Toberoff, an attorney for Musk, told reporters that the true concern was Brockman’s motivations for sharing control, with his desire for wealth having faced scrutiny in court a day earlier.
For his part, Brockman offered another story on Tuesday to underscore why he thought Musk was not up to the task of controlling an AI company. Brockman recalled then-OpenAI researcher Alec Radford showing Musk an early version of an AI chatbot that didn’t generate responses that he liked. Musk “kept saying this system is so stupid, that a kid on the internet could do better,” Brockman said. Radford “was absolutely crushed” and “demoralized” to the point that he almost quit the AI research field altogether, Brockman said. Brockman and Sutskever “spent a lot of time” rebuilding his confidence. Musk’s inability to see the potential in the early technology—which eventually became the basis for ChatGPT—made him unfit to control OpenAI, in Brockman’s view. “You needed to dream a little bit,” Brockman said. And Musk hadn’t shown that he could.
Boardroom Fights
Brockman said Tuesday that he, Sutskever, and Altman considered voting Musk off the OpenAI nonprofit board as negotiations with him about a for-profit sibling company dragged on for months. They would meet again over whiskey at Musk’s mansion to discuss alternative funding options. There was agreement over what not to do, but little on what to do instead. But Brockman and Sutskever decided removing Musk felt “wrong,” Brockman testified. Eventually, Musk left on his own after deeming OpenAI was on a path of “certain failure,” according to an email he wrote in early 2018.
Zilis, then an adviser to both OpenAI and Musk, kept him informed about developments at the AI venture in the years to come. “She was proxy Elon in some ways,” Brockman said, referring to her as “a friend” who he had first met in 2012 or 2013.
