Tesla and SpaceX's eccentric Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk recently engage in a Twitter thread that negatively shared his and a fan's opinion on Microsoft's newest venture, acquiring an exclusive license from OpenAI, an artificial intelligence company. The CEO said that this deal defeats the purpose of being 'open' as Microsoft received said license.
The clean energy company's big boss shares his opinion as honest as possible and lets the world know what he thinks. The recent tweet from the CEO proves this so, sharing his opinion on Microsoft's acquisition of the supposed to be an "open" network of artificial intelligence.
According to Kevin Scott, Microsoft's Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, the Redmond-giant recently agreed and deal with OpenAI, acquiring an exclusive license for the GPT-3 language model. The famed Microsoft Blog proudly announces and boasts that it has partnered with OpenAI to create an Azure-hosted home for training massive artificial intelligence models.
The GPT-3 has now been licensed to Microsoft, and this model is the leading and most autoregressive artificial intelligence language model there is, remarkably mimicking and producing 'human-like' text. Microsoft's exclusive license and the acquisition gives the company an upper hand in creating more AI for its software and technology.
Up to date, there is no known dispute between Tesla and Microsoft, also from Elon Musk and Microsoft-boss, Satya Nadella. Musk's statement and the Twitter user's regard may seem like disbelief or distrust towards Microsoft in utilizing the AI properly.
CHICAGO, IL - JUNE 14: Engineer and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk of The Boring Company listens as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel talks about constructing a high speed transit tunnel at Block 37 during a news conference on June 14, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. Musk said he could create a 16-passenger vehicle to operate on a high-speed rail system that could get travelers to and from downtown Chicago and O'hare International Airport under twenty minutes, at speeds of over 100 miles per hour. (Photo by Joshua Lott/Getty Images)
Several users brought Twitter the dismay and criticism of Microsoft's recent acquisition and venture with OpenAI and the GPT-3 language model. Both the artificial intelligence company and the language model received criticism from several users, including the Tesla boss himself, Elon Musk.
Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) shared a news link on his Twitter status, sharing the dismay and disbelief in OpenAI for allowing Microsoft to acquire the language model. Then, the Twitter account proceeds to tag Elon Musk on the tweet's body for the CEO to notice.
"Microsoft gets exclusive license for OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model"
Another user regarded that the "executive license" of the GPT-3 language model "might as well rename it to ClosedAI." Elon Musk (@elonmusk) continued the thread and said that the venture is the 'opposite of open.' The Tesla CEO's disbelief in Microsoft to properly handle and use the technology says a lot for the electronics and software company.
This does seem like the opposite of open. OpenAI is essentially captured by Microsoft. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 24, 2020
Twitter's Objection
With Elon Musk supporting the Whole Mars Catalog's statement, several users still share their two cents regarding Microsoft's new venture. A known Twitter user that has occurring replies to Elon Musk's tweet and provide information, Pranay Pathole (@PPathole), shares his opinion on the debacle.
The user said that open source is different from the company's name, OpenAI, which seems to be the point of confusion for saying the venture to be limiting the democracy of the GPT-3 language model.
Many ppl seem to be confusing open source & OpenAI.
Open source: The code is open but you can still sell products through external assets that run on the code.
But OpenAI is different. The model is a key component of the AI, without it you don't have a functional AI.— Pranay Pathole (@PPathole) September 24, 2020
OpenAI is the world's largest artificial intelligence research company and leading in the creation of new technology that can revolutionize the society and the world. Microsoft's recent acquisition intends it to be partnered with Azure, a cloud-computing service of the company that will soon change.
