Elon Musk is investing in artificial intelligence (AI) within Twitter, according to an article published Tuesday by the US outlet Business Insider, while the billionaire signed a call last month to pause research on next-generation AI.
According to anonymous sources from Business Insider, the leader recently bought some 10,000 graphics processors and Twitter’s AI project would include a language model.
These models, trained from large amounts of data, are capable of generating all kinds of texts and answering user questions through interfaces such as ChatGPT (OpenAI) or Bard (Google).
Expert recruitment
Elon Musk, who has laid off thousands of Twitter employees since buying the platform in October, has also hired AI specialists, according to Business Insider. The article mentions the recruitment of Igor Babuschkin and Manuel Kroiss, who went through DeepMind, the AI arm of Alphabet (Google’s parent company).
The specialized site The Information had already indicated at the end of February that the head of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter was trying to put together a team to compete with OpenAI, which has been causing a sensation since last year with the success of ChatGPT.
Asked by AFP, Igor Babuschkin did not immediately respond and the Twitter address for the press automatically sent a now typical emoticon in the form of poop.
From Microsoft to Snapchat, every tech giant and many startups are investing in generative AI. But the lightning-fast adoption and progression of this technology also raises a lot of concerns, especially when Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, talks about the coming advent of so-called “general” artificial intelligence, when programs will be “smarter than humans.” in general”.
A petition for a moratorium
At the end of March, hundreds of academics, bosses and personalities, including Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak (Apple co-founder) and Emad Mostaque (head of Stability AI), called for a six-month pause on research on artificial intelligences more powerful than GPT. -4, the latest OpenAI language model.
They evoke various risks associated with this technology, asking in these terms: “Is it desirable to develop non-human spirits that can eventually outnumber, out-intelligence, and replace us?”
Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, before leaving the company in 2018. The Californian startup has been primarily funded by Microsoft since 2019. Since then, he has criticized the company, notably believing a tweet last December leading to the ‘ IA being “awakened” (a term designating a section of the American left), that is, “lying.”
Source: BFM TV
