Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced the formation of a new AI company, xAI.
Mr. Mask posted xAI’s Twitter handle and made an announcement on Twitter. This account already has over 316,000 followers.
He said the company’s aim is to “understand reality,” but that its new website explains a bit more about what this means in practice.
“The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe,” reads the site’s first post.
What is xAI?
The xAI team is “led by Elon Musk,” suggesting that he will take on more than an advisory role at the new AI company.
The xAI site also lists details of the other 11 male founding members (no females this time). Among them are researchers and engineers who previously worked on GPT-4, the AI engine behind Google’s Minerva and ChatGPT.
The company will host a discussion on Twitter Spaces on Friday, July 14th. This is the platform’s voice-driven discussion and presentation space, available to all Twitter users through his Twitter app on Android and iOS.
The time for this Twitter Spaces meeting has not yet been announced. Twitter of xAI account and its Elon Musk For those interested in participating, this is a great place to learn more.
From afar, Musk may seem late to xAI’s participation, but he’s been doing this long before the explosion of public interest in late 2022 sparked by the release of LLM-based chatbots. engaged in the field.
Musk was one of OpenAI’s early board members, along with current CEO Sam Altman and prolific tech investor Peter Thiel.
Musk left the OpenAI board in 2018. A now-deleted blog on the OpenAI website explained, as CNBC reported at the time, that Tesla’s growing AI research related to self-driving cars created “potential future conflicts for Elon.”
Is AI Safe?
Tesla’s CEO has repeatedly called for regulation of AI and was a key signatory to an open letter released in March 2023 calling for a six-month moratorium on developing new AI tools. there were.
“In recent months, AI labs have been embroiled in an uncontrollable race to develop and deploy ever-more-powerful digital minds that no one, even their creators, can understand, predict, or reliably control. There is,” the letter said. Featured on the Future of Life Institute website.
Has Musk changed his mind about AI safety? I don’t know yet. xAI will be overseen by Dan Hendrycks, a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2022, and research director of the Center for AI Safety, a nonprofit founded in 2022.
Hendrycks recently published a paper titled “Natural Selection Favors AI over Humans,” which you can read online.
