Marc Cuban Says Elon Musk Might Have an Advantage in AI Race

• Marc Cuban says Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter could give the company an edge in the AI ​​arms race.
• “Shark Tank” investors said Musk could also use it to create a “virtual Elon.”
• Cuban also warned that AI could make “dangerous people smarter.”

Mark Cuban thinks Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter could help his AI venture compete with OpenAI and others.

Earlier this year, Musk announced that he would launch a startup to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. He jokingly dubbed this new venture “TruthGPT”. Mr. Musk later incorporated the X AI. Insider’s Kari Hayes first reported on Musk’s plans.

Cuban said on twitter He said Thursday that he believes the AI ​​arms race will revolve around which companies own the largest share of data.

“He can have it all @twitter It’s a firehose to train and feed any open source model, and it has big 3 competitors.”, Star of “Shark Tank” Mr Musk said. Ms Cuban added that this is “pretty cool” but could be “pretty scary”.

“He could weigh his own tweets against tweets from sources he likes and end up with a consumer-facing AI that could be a virtual Elon,” Cuban wrote.

In an emailed comment to an insider, Cuban said, “It will be interesting to see what Elon does with all of this.”

“Anyone can create a virtual version of themselves by downloading the open-source LLM and entering their personal data,” he told Insider. “Twitter has a unique differentiator for every tweet. It’s a powerful utility.”

and previous post Cuban said Thursday that he believes large language models need to be “evolved” into “knowledge models.”

“To get there, you need access to important intellectual property and data, the most important of which is not free,” he said, adding that the three big AIs: Meta, Google and Microsoft/OpenAI. He added that it would be interesting to see which of the companies would participate. I would gladly spend a lot of money on that.

Like many tech entrepreneurs, Cuban seems wary of AI. he wrote: another twitter post On the issue that this technology will “make dangerous people smarter” and “will have unintended consequences.”

Musk did not respond to an insider’s request for comment before publication. But Musk, the company’s co-founder, who initially invested in OpenAI, has spoken out against the company in recent months.

Earlier this year, Twitter’s owners also cut off OpenAI’s access to Twitter data that the AI ​​company had licensed to build ChatGPT, according to The New York Times.