Thursday, March 28, 2024

Elon Musk to launch TruthGPT to rival Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI

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Novi Nurmalasari

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Mahinda Arkyasa

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Monday (17/4) that he will launch a new AI platform “TruthGPT” to take on Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI. Musk’s goal is to challenge currently existing AI processes, which he claims are not focused on maximum-truth seeking.

Musk criticized Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the firm beyond chatbot sensation ChatGPT, for “training the AI to lie” and said that OpenAI has now become a “closed source”, “for-profit” organization “closely allied with Microsoft”.

Not only that, the boss of Twitter also voiced his concerns about the danger of AI, saying it has “the potential to destroy civilization”. He said he was also worried that the ChatGPT bot created by OpenAI was being taught to be politically correct. 

“I’m going to start something which is called TruthGPT, or an absolute truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe,” Musk said in an interview with Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson aired on Monday (17/4). 

He said TruthGPT “might be the best path to safety” that would be “unlikely to annihilate humans”. 

Musk has been poaching AI researchers from Alphabet Inc’s Google to launch a startup to rival OpenAI. 

Last month, Musk registered a firm named X.AI Corp, incorporated in Nevada. The firm listed Musk as the sole director and Jared Birchall, the managing director of Musk’s family office, as a secretary.

Musk’s concern regarding AI

Musk also reiterated his warnings about AI during the interview with Carlson, saying “AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production.”

“It has the potential to destroy civilization,” Musk said.

Musk added, for example, that a super intelligent AI can write incredibly well and potentially manipulate public opinions. He also tweeted that he had met with former US President Barack Obama when he was president and told them the need for a regulation concerning AI. 

He also tweeted at that time that other reasons for his departure from OpenAI were, “Tesla was competing for some of the same people as OpenAI and I didn’t agree with some of what OpenAI team wanted to do.”

Novi Nurmalasari

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Mahinda Arkyasa

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