Elon Musk explained on Monday that he was working on creating his own artificial intelligence, a project dubbed “TruthGPT,” tasked with “seeking the ultimate truth” and competing with other existing software, which he said didn’t include enough crazy safeguards.
Compete with the creator of ChatGPT
The head of Twitter, Tesla, SpaceX and Neuralink believes that this is the “best way” to guarantee the safety of humanity, because “an AI that cares about understanding the universe does not risk destroying humans, because we are an interesting part of the universe.”
According to him, this ideal AI would act a bit like humans, who aspire to “protect the habitat” of chimpanzees, while having the ability to “hunt and kill them all.”
Several specialized media have already been reporting for a few weeks that Elon Musk is investing in the field of artificial intelligence. Specifically, in March he founded a new company specialized in this field, called X.AI and based in Nevada.
According to the Financial Times, this new entity will have to compete with OpenAI, the Californian start-up that designed ChatGPT, a next-generation AI capable of interacting with humans and producing all kinds of text on demand. The success of this interface since its launch at the end of November has started a real race for this high-potential technology.
Elon Musk, co-founder of OpenAI
In February, Elon Musk had already revealed his intentions by tweeting: “what we need is TruthGPT”.
He co-founded OpenAI in 2015, before leaving the company in 2018. He has since criticized the company, notably saying in a tweet last December that it trains AI to “wake up” (a term for a swath of the American Left). that is, “lie.”
On Monday, Elon Musk, a signatory to a recent call to stop research on next-generation AI, said the technology “has the potential to destroy civilization” and called for the creation of a “regulator” for the sector.
The entrepreneur recently recruited Igor Babuschkin and Manuel Kroiss, who worked for DeepMind, the artificial intelligence arm of Alphabet (Google’s parent company). He is also said to have bought some 10,000 graphics processors, computers needed to train language models, the basis of generative AI systems.
Source: BFM TV
