Elon Emails

Musk: DeepMind is 'playing the Super Bowl'

From:
Elon Musk
Date:
February 18, 2016 (Sent the same day, 'a few hours later' per counsel)
To:
Ilya Sutskever (and others on the chain)

Partial text. Only these passages were published; [...] marks a gap.

I think I should probably do this every week. [...] My dinner with Dennis was extremely alarming. I feel like they are playing the Super Bowl and we are playing the Puppy Bowl. Unless want to have our ass handed to us, we need to step up our game dramatically. [...] Let's have a conference call later today with the key people of OpenAI. Later today, if possible; otherwise, tomorrow.

About this email

Musk says he should meet OpenAI's leaders weekly, calls a dinner with DeepMind's chief extremely alarming, says OpenAI must dramatically step up its game, and asks for a conference call with key people.

Notes

As read aloud by counsel at Sutskever's deposition (deposition Exhibit 9) in three passages; 'Dennis' is the court reporter's rendering (apparently Demis Hassabis of DeepMind) and 'Unless want' is as transcribed. This exchange immediately precedes the 'Re: Followup thoughts' emails of Feb. 19, 2016. Subject line not stated.

Where it came from

Court record; attribution confirmed.

OpenAI, executive & internal. Tags: deepmind, demis-hassabis, urgency, meetings, competition, musk-v-openai