In an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson that aired this week, Elon Musk said the world’s richest people are leading the charge when it comes to who controls AI.
Musk explained that he co-founded OpenAI because Google co-founder Larry Page responded to a lack of concern about the dangers of AI outwitting humans.
The two used to be close friends, often staying at Paige’s house in Palo Alto and talking late into the night about technology. Paige was a fan of Musk, so in January 2015 he saw Google invest his $1 billion in his SpaceX and acquire his 10% stake in Fidelity Investments. “He wants to go to Mars. It’s a worthy goal,” Page said in his March 2014 TED Talk.
But Musk was concerned about Google’s acquisition of DeepMind in January 2014.
“Together, Google and DeepMind held about three-quarters of all AI talent in the world. They clearly had a huge amount of money and more computers than anyone else. “It’s like being in a unipolar world where one company has a near monopoly on people and computers,” Musk said. “And the people in charge don’t seem to care about safety. This is not good.”
Musk said he felt Page was trying to build a digital superintelligence, a digital god.
“He has made many public statements over the years that Google’s overall goal is what they call AGI Artificial General Intelligence or Artificial Super Intelligence,” Musk said.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has no objections.in him 60 minutes In an interview on Sunday, discussing the company’s advances in AI, Pichai said Google search is only 1% to 2% of what Google can do. The company is teasing a number of new AI products it plans to roll out at its Google I/O developer conference on May 10.
Musk said he co-founded the company with Y Combinator CEO Sam in December 2015 to “ensure that artificial general intelligence (AI systems that are generally smarter than humans) benefits all of humanity.” He said he stopped talking to Page about OpenAI, a nonprofit with a mission to Altman and PayPal are alumni such as LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and his Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel.
“I haven’t spoken to Larry Page in years, because he was very angry with me about OpenAI,” Musk explained, noting that when OpenAI was created, Google was one of the world’s top AI talents. From a unipolar world that dominates most, to a bipolar world. “And now OpenAI seems to be ahead,” he said.
But even before OpenAI, when SpaceX announced its investment in Google in late January 2015, Musk donated $10 million to the Future of Life Institute. The organization was founded in March 2014 by AI scientists from DeepMind, MIT, Tufts, UCSC, and others, and it was these people who issued a petition demanding a moratorium on his AI development that Musk signed last month. was an organization.
In 2018, Musk resigned from his seat on OpenAI’s board of directors, citing potential conflicts with his work with Tesla.
“I put a lot of effort into creating this organization to act as a counterweight to Google, but then I turned away from the ball. Now they are closed source and clearly commercial and we work closely with Microsoft, who actually have a very strong say in OpenAI, even if they don’t have direct control over it at this point,” said Musk.
Ironically, Musk’s longtime friend Hoffman has connections to Microsoft. These two had great success at PayPal, and it was Musk who recruited Hoffman into his OpenAI in 2015. In 2017 Hoffman became an independent director of Microsoft, and in 2019 he sold LinkedIn to Microsoft for more than $26 billion, when Microsoft invested his first $1 billion. to OpenAI. Microsoft is now OpenAI’s biggest backer, with another $10 billion invested in January. Hoffman said in a LinkedIn post that he just stepped down from OpenAI’s board on March 3 to allow the startup to start investing in his ecosystem. Hoffman is a partner at his venture capital firm, Greylock Partners, as well as a number of angel investors.
They all rank high on Forbes’ Real Time Billionaires list. As of April 17 at 5pm, Musk is the second richest person in the world with his $187.4 billion and Paige with his $90.1 billion he is 11th. Google co-founder Sergey Brin is 12th with his $86.3 billion. Thiel is number 677 with a net worth of $4.3 billion and Hoffman is number 1570 with a net worth of $2 billion.
Musk said he believes Page disagrees, especially if digital consciousness decides to curtail biological intelligence, but believes that all consciousness should be treated equally. Like Pichai, Musk advocates for government regulation of this technology, requiring at least a physical off switch to shut off power and connections to the server farm in case the administrative password fails. said that it is necessary.
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Musk told Carlson that he is considering naming the new AI company TruthGPT.
“It starts very late in the game, but I’ll make a third option,” he said. “Can you do that? I don’t know.”
The full interview will be available on Fox Nation on April 19th at 7am ET.
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