Elon Musk reportedly planning to launch AI rival to ChatGPT maker
Don't know if this has already been posted. Anyone surprised by this? Sort of explains why he called for a 6-month hiatus for everyone else, eh?
I've always thought he wanted Twitter to be used as training data, but after what he's done to Twitter, one can only imagine what his AI project will look like. I trust Sam Altman more than Musk.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/15/elon-musk-chatgpt-ai-rival-openai
Musk’s new startup is likely to enable him to attempt to compete with OpenAI, which Musk co-founded in 2015. He left the board after three years, reportedly as a result of clashes with management, including over AI safety.
He tweeted in 2019: “Tesla was competing for some of the same people as OpenAI & I didn’t agree with some of what OpenAI team wanted to do.”
Soon after, it became a for-profit startup and secured a $1bn investment from Microsoft. It has since attracted growing criticism from Musk over the potential existential threats generative AI may pose.
He has said he is especially concerned about the capability of models such as GPT-4, the latest release by OpenAI, to spread false information and demonstrate political bias.
: cough cough:
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