Elon Musk It is pursuing plans to take on OpenAI, which it co-founded in 2015 but later released – rival tech company xAI announced today that it will allow some users to test its chatbot on Saturday.
“tomorrow, [xAI] The first AI will be released to a select group,” Musk wrote on X, earlier on Twitter. “In some important respects, it is the best available at the moment.”
The Musk-backed xAI project comes after AI has entered the mainstream OpenAI has officially announced ChatGipt, a huge success that has seen billions of dollars invested by tech giants like Microsoft and Google and a growing share of global investment and venture funding.
Musk announced the launch of xAI in July and explained that the company would be separate from X Corporation but work closely with Twitter, which Musk bought in April 2022 for $44 billion. For starters, including a focus on transparency and the value of honesty over bias.
“XAI's overall goal is to build good. [artificial general intelligence] with the primary purpose of understanding the universe,” Musk said at the time. “The surest way to build an AI is to make it highly curious and truth-seeking.”
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) refers to a type of AI that can learn and perform any mental task a human can. Unlike specialized AI that excels at a single task, AGI has a broader understanding like the human brain. However, achieving AGI is currently a challenging and elusive goal.
Very interesting! I'd love to give it a test drive 🤖.
— Bilawal Sidhu (@bilawalsidhu) November 3, 2023
Generative AI has taken the world by storm, its ability to generate images, text and audio with just a few suggestions has changed the way people engage with content with more and more AI chatbots coming online every day, many using APIs connected to OpenAI's suite. AI tools.
Musk has been critical of the AI industry, particularly OpenAI, which he founded in December 2015 with Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Shulman and Wojciech Zaremba. Musk resigned from the OpenAI board in 2018, but reportedly invested $100 million. In the company.
“I've spent a lot of years thinking about AI safety and worrying about AI safety. And I've been one of the strongest voices calling for regulation or oversight of AI, to have some kind of oversight, some kind of judge,” Musk said. “So it's not just companies to decide what they want to do with AI.” I think a lot needs to be done on security.
Although Mook had previously said he was interested in studying physics and what he called “the fundamental truths of the universe,” he instead focused on computer science because he didn't want to be stuck with a collision project.
In March, Musk joined the rest of the tech industry in calling for a pause on OpenAI's development of new AI models after the company released its latest iteration of ChatGPT, GPT-4. Other co-signatories of the letter include Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, director of the Stuart Russell Center for Intelligent Systems, and Imad Mostak, CEO of Serendipity AI.
Not wanting to be overshadowed by Musk-led projects, OpenAI invested $24 million in robotics startup 1X, which beat out Musk's Tesla to market a humanoid robot designed to perform tasks such as security, nursing and bartending. 1X launched its first robot, Eve, in April.
In May, Musk hit out at OpenAI, expressing concerns about what he sees as OpenAI's shift to a closed-source, for-profit model.
“It seems amazing that something can be non-profit, open-source and somehow turn itself into for-profit, closed-source,” he says, likening it to an environmental organization set up to turn the Amazon rainforest into timber. Company.
Despite the criticism of OpenAI, Musk, Altman and others agree that regulation is necessary for the development of responsible AI. Appearing before a congressional hearing on AI, Altman proposed the creation of a government agency to oversee AI development in the United States.
While Musk believes regulation is important, he also believes regulation requires knowledge and understanding.
“I think the right way to do regulations is to start with common sense,” Musk said. “So first, any regulatory authority, government or private, try to understand first, make sure there's a broad understanding. Then there is the drafting of a bill and if that proposal is agreed upon by the majority of the parties, it will be implemented.
