The New York Times reported Thursday on OpenAI's “fraying” relationship with its investor, partner, and increasingly rival Microsoft, and their five-year romance has been linked to limited computing reported that the ability of OpenAI to cool down due to economic pressure. Microsoft offers OpenAI, but there are disagreements between the two regarding the basic principles.
Perhaps most attractively, OpenAI's deal with Microsoft provides that if OpenAI develops so-called artificial general intelligence (AGI), an AI system with capabilities comparable to human thinking, it will be granted access to Microsoft's technology. This is probably a clause reported in OpenAI's contract with Microsoft that would block it.
TC has reached out to OpenAI for comment, but The Times spoke to 19 people familiar with the relationship between the two companies, who say the clause is aimed at ensuring Microsoft can never misuse the technology. . The problem is that OpenAI's board can reportedly decide when AGI arrives, and CEO Sam Altman has already said that moment will be somewhat subjective. As he told this editor early last year, “The closer you get to the story, the harder it becomes to answer.” [how far away AGI is] Because I think it's going to be a much more nebulous, much more gradual transition than people think. ”