Elon baby ma: Bye, AI!
Musk’s ‘in vitro’ recipient quits artificial intel firm
Shivon Zilis, the Canadian-born Neuralink executive and mother to twin babies fathered by her boss Elon Musk via in vitro fertilization, has stepped down from the board of artificial intelligence unicorn OpenAI, according to a report.
Zilis’ departure from OpenAI, which was first reported by the tech-centric news site The Information, comes in the wake of Musk’s criticism of the Silicon Valley-based research firm he helped found in 2015.
Zilis and OpenAI didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Zilis, 37, is considered an expert in the field of artificial intelligence, according to The Information.
She first joined OpenAI as an adviser in 2016. The next year, she was hired by Musk’s electric-car maker Tesla to work on its autopilot technology.
Musk, 51, tweeted earlier this month that he had donated around $100 million to co-found OpenAI, which at the time was a nonprofit.
OpenAI is the company behind ChatGPT, the AIpowered chatbot that has dazzled the tech world with its conversational language and learning capabilities that some speculate could be enough to supplant humans in knowledge-based industries.
OpenAI recently revealed a private valuation of some $30 billion from investors like Microsoft.
In response, Musk tweeted: “I’m still confused as to how a nonprofit to which I donated ~$100M somehow became a $30B market cap forprofit. If this is legal, why doesn’t everyone do it?”
In another tweet, Musk wrote: “OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it ‘Open’ AI), non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximumprofit company effectively controlled by Microsoft. Not what I intended at all.”
Musk was part of a group of co-founders including LinkedIn visionary Reid Hoffman, 55, who collectively donated $1 billion to OpenAI.
Hoffman also stepped down from OpenAI’s board earlier this month, citing conflicts of interests with other AI-centric firms.