SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Billionaire Elon Musk said he plans to launch an artificial intelligence (AI) platform called TruthGPT. This is a clear competitor to OpenAI’s popular chatbot, his ChatGPT.
“We’re going to start something called ‘TruthGPT,’ a maximal truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe,” Musk said in an interview with Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson, which airs Monday. Told. .
“And in the sense that an AI that cares about understanding the universe is unlikely to annihilate humans, I think this might be the best path to safety,” he said, according to some excerpts. Said… of an interview.
Musk did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
People familiar with the matter told Reuters that Mr. Musk is poaching AI researchers from Alphabet Inc.’s (GOOGL.O) Google to launch a startup to combat open AI.
Musk registered a company, X.AI Corp, incorporated in Nevada last month, according to state filings. The company has listed Musk as its sole director and Jared Virtual, managing director of Musk’s family office, as a secretary.
“Civilization Destruction”
The move prompted Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives to spend six months developing a system more powerful than OpenAI’s newly launched GPT-4, citing potential risks to society. It was done even after asking to stop.
According to the excerpt, Musk also repeated his warning about AI in an interview with Carlson, stating that “AI is more dangerous than, say, aircraft design or production maintenance management or car production badness.” I’m here.
“It could destroy civilization,” he said.
He tweeted last weekend that he met with former President Barack Obama during his presidency and said Washington needs to “encourage AI regulation.”
Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, but resigned from the company’s board in 2018. He tweeted in 2019 that he quit OpenAI because Tesla and he had to focus on SpaceX.
At the time, he tweeted that another reason for leaving OpenAI was that “Tesla was competing for the same talent as OpenAI and we disagreed on some of the things the OpenAI team wanted to do.”
Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has also become CEO of Twitter, the social media platform he bought last year for $44 billion.
In January, Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) announced an additional multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI. This has increased competition from rival Google and increased competition for his AI funding in Silicon Valley.
Reported by Hyunju Jin Edited by Chris Reese
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