Elon Musk Ramps Up A.I. Efforts, Even as He Warns of Dangers

Elon Musk Ramps Up A.I. Efforts, Even as He Warns of Dangers

Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, has cut off OpenAI from Twitter’s data, after learning that OpenAI, the startup behind popular chatbot ChatGPT, was licensing Twitter’s data for about $2m a year to build ChatGPT. Mr. Musk believed the AI startup wasn’t paying Twitter enough. In response, Mr. Musk has ramped up his own AI activities, including discussions with Jimmy Ba, a professor at the University of Toronto, to build a new AI company called X.AI. Musk has hired top AI researchers from Google’s DeepMind at Twitter and spoken publicly about creating a rival to ChatGPT that generates politically charged material without restrictions.

  • Elon Musk cut off OpenAI from Twitter's data and is now ramping up his own AI activities.
  • Musk has a long and complicated history with AI and has funded the Future of Life Institute with $10m to address its risks.
  • In the summer of 2015, Musk helped to found OpenAI as a nonprofit, but he resigned from the board in 2018 due to his growing conflict of interest with the organization.
  • Musk wants to build his own AI systems, which he sees as offering better, safer alternatives than those of his competitors.
  • Musk is in talks to build a new AI company called X.AI, and he has hired top AI researchers from Google's DeepMind.
  • Musk has spoken publicly about creating a rival to ChatGPT that generates politically charged material without restrictions.
  • Despite pushing back against OpenAI and planning to compete with it, Musk helped found the AI lab and has grown disillusioned with it.
  • Musk wants to build a maximum-truth-seeking AI that understands the nature of the universe.
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