San Francisco: Billionaire Elon Musk stated on Monday he’ll launch a man-made intelligence (AI) platform that he calls “TruthGPT” to problem the choices from Microsoft and Google.
He criticised Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the agency behind chatbot sensation ChatGPT, of “training the AI to lie” and stated OpenAI has now turn into a “closed source”, “for-profit” organisation “closely allied with Microsoft”.
He additionally accused Larry Page, co-founder of Google, of not taking AI security critically.
“I’m going to start something which I call ‘TruthGPT’, or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe,” Musk stated in an interview with Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson to be aired afterward Monday.
“And I think this might be the best path to safety, in the sense that an AI that cares about understanding the universe, it is unlikely to annihilate humans because we are an interesting part of the universe,” he stated.
Musk, OpenAI and Page didn’t instantly reply to Reuters’ requests for remark.
Musk has been poaching AI researchers from Alphabet Inc’s Google to launch a startup to rival OpenAI, folks accustomed to the matter instructed Reuters.
Musk final month registered a agency named X.AI Corp, integrated in Nevada, in response to a state submitting. The agency listed Musk as the only director and Jared Birchall, the managing director of Musk’s household workplace, as a secretary.
The transfer got here even after Musk and a gaggle of synthetic intelligence specialists and business executives known as for a six-month pause in creating techniques extra highly effective than OpenAI’s newly launched GPT-4, citing potential dangers to society.
Musk additionally reiterated his warnings about AI throughout the interview with Carlson, saying “AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production” in response to the excerpts.
“It has the potential of civilizational destruction,” he stated.
He stated, for instance, {that a} tremendous clever AI can write extremely effectively and probably manipulate public opinions.
He tweeted over the weekend that he had met with former U.S. President Barack Obama when he was president and instructed him that Washington wanted to “encourage AI regulation”.
Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, however he stepped down from the corporate’s board in 2018. In 2019, he tweeted that he left OpenAI as a result of he needed to deal with Tesla and SpaceX.
He additionally tweeted at the moment that different causes for his departure from OpenAI had been, “Tesla was competing for some of the same people as OpenAI & I didn’t agree with some of what OpenAI team wanted to do.”
Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has additionally turn into CEO of Twitter, a social media platform he purchased for $44 billion final 12 months.
In the interview with Fox News, Musk stated he lately valued Twitter at “less than half” of the acquisition worth.
In January, Microsoft Corp introduced an extra multi-billion greenback funding in OpenAI, intensifying competitors with rival Google and fueling the race to draw AI funding in Silicon Valley.
