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Could anything but profit steer AI? The OpenAI trial offered clues but no verdict :: WRAL.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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The trial pitting Elon Musk against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made clear the two billionaires agreed on one thing: building artificial intelligence would require significant resources \u2014 and enormous amounts of money. <\/p>\n

It may seem obvious now, as an AI-obsessed stock market helps finance a global construction boom of chipmaking factories and energy-hogging data centers to keep chatbots running, but testimony and evidence showed how people with outsized control of the AI industry were privately debating its costs nearly a decade ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven raising several hundred million won\u2019t be enough,\u201d Musk said in a 2018 email to Altman and other OpenAI co-founders about what he increasingly saw as a futile attempt to compete with Google. \u201cThis needs billions per year immediately or forget it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The soaring costs factored into the trajectory of OpenAI, which began in 2015 as a nonprofit dedicated to developing AI for the common good and is now a capitalistic enterprise valued at $852 billion. As San Francisco-based OpenAI and other AI companies move toward historically large Wall Street debuts, the trial also raised questions about whether anything but commercial interests can steer AI\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

It is possible to build big things only with nonprofit money, but in the case of OpenAI’s early years, the uncertainty around AI also made it a risky investment, said Karan Girotra, a professor of operations, technology, and innovation at Cornell Tech. Now, he said, investment in AI is no longer speculative.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow it\u2019s traditional investment in something we know works,\u201d Girotra said. \u201cPeople want your car, you need to build the factory ahead of…
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