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The New York Times on Thursday publish a aspect at the “ fraying ” relationship between OpenAI and its investor , spouse , and , increasingly , rival , Microsoft , report their five - year Latinian language has cooled owe to financial pressure on OpenAI , the limited calculation power Microsoft is offer OpenAI , and disagreement between the two about ground rule .
Most fascinating perhaps is a reported clause in OpenAI ’s contract with Microsoft that cut off Microsoft ’s access to OpenAI ’s tech if the latter germinate so - called contrived general intelligence agency ( AGI ) , meaning an AI system capable of rivaling human thought .
TC has ask OpenAI for input , but the Times — which sing with 19 hoi polloi familiar with the company ’ relationship — say the clause aims to ensure Microsoft can never misuse the engineering . matter is , OpenAI ’s board can reportedly decide when AGI has arrived , and CEO Sam Altman has already said that here and now will be somewhat immanent .
As he told this editorearly last year , “ The nigher we get , the harder time I have suffice [ how far away AGI is ] because I think that it ’s lead to be much blurrier and much more of a gradual transition than hoi polloi think . ”
