April 14, 2023, 10:43 PM
April 14, 2023, 10:43 PM
Elon Musk last month registered an artificial intelligence (AI) company called X.AI, based in nevadaaccording to an official document consulted by AFP in this state of the United States.
According to an article published Friday by the Financial Times, the new company will compete with OpenAI, the Californian start-up that developed ChatGPTan AI program capable of interacting with humans and producing all kinds of texts.
The success of this interface since its launch at the end of November has caused a competition in the development of this technology due to its great potential.
According to various specialized media, the owner of Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX has hired Igor Babuschkin and Manuel Kroiss, both from DeepMind, the AI branch of Alphabet (Google’s parent company), also involved in the dispute over control of this technology. .
This movement by Musk clashes with the public position that he himself held last monthwhen he signed an appeal to pause AI development.
The hundreds of signatories who supported this text warned of the risks of this technology and they wondered:Is it desirable to develop non-human minds that they could ultimately outnumber and outsmart us and replace us?”
Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, before leaving the company in 2018.
He has been critical of the company ever since, including in a tweet last December in which he claimed that the AI is being trained to be “woke” (a term to designate the American left), that is, to “lie”.
In the official X.AI registration document, dated March 9, 2023, Elon Musk is listed as sole director and a secretary, Jared Birchall, a former Morgan Stanley banker who manages the billionaire’s fortune, according to the Financial Times.
