Elon Musk, reserved about his new artificial intelligence

Elon Musk gave few clues as to how his new artificial intelligence company dubbed xAI at the company presentation this Friday, but he did note that this tool will not be trained to be politically correct.

Musk noted that xAI seeks to be the competition of Open AI, Google and Microsoft; However, the controversial billionaire in the almost two hours of presentation exclusively by audio did not give specific information about what types of tools will xAI offer, when will you start offering services, who pYou will be able to access it or if it will be free. He didn’t do any visual demonstration of how xAI will be able to work.

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However, he did make a comparison with the most popular generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots, such as ChatGPT, Bard or Bing, which do not answer questions from users if they consider them to be racist, violent or hateful, something that, according to Musk shows that they are programmed to be politically correct.

“I think there is a significant danger in training an AI to be politically correct, or in other words, training it not to say what it actually thinks to be true.“, Musk noted in the presentation of the company that he made today in the Twitter Spaces chat, a social network that he has also owned since last October.

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To clarify his opinion, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla gave the example of the movie of stanley kubrick “2001: A Space Odyssey“, and he said that in that adventure things began to go wrong when they asked the Hal 9000 supercomputer to lie.

The billionaire businessman took advantage of this coming-out to introduce the eleven men behind xAI, several of whom have worked for leading companies in the sector such as Open AI, DeepMindand Microsoft.

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Musk and his team stressed on several occasions that the regulation of AI will be key for them, but they did not detail how it will be carried out specifically, especially when this regulation is still in its infancy despite the many voices calling for some kind of regulation to be implemented. international code.

Other pillars of xAI will be creating a more secure AI,”that is as curious as possible and that seeks the truth“, since the ultimate goal is to understand the true nature of the universe. In the presentation, Musk accepted questions from various users of Twitter Blueall men, including the hacker kim dotcom; Steve Jobs biography writer and from the book entitled “Elon Musk” which will go on sale next September, walter isaacsonor the spatial computing expert Robert Scoble.

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In one of the responses, Musk detailed that xAI will use public tweets from Twitter to train itself and stressed that this is something that all big and small AI companies have done illegally.

Musk described OpenAI, creators of ChatGPT, as a “greedy” company.

(Google launched Bard, a competitor to ChatGPT, in Spanish.)

This company, which this year began to collaborate with Microsoft, started as a non-profit artificial intelligence research company for “advance digital intelligence“ and make this”benefit humanity as a whole, without the limitations of the need to generate financial return” in December 2015.

Musk was one of the co-founders of OpenAI and became co-chairman, before leaving in 2018, a departure under unclear circumstances: OpenAI and Musk said at the time, the South African left OpenAI to avoid conflicts of interest as Tesla focused more on the AI. However, according to Semafor, Musk had proposed to take over the leadership of OpenAI and withdrew after his proposal was rejected.

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For its part, the Financial Times reported that Musk’s departure was also due to clashes with other board members and staff over OpenAI’s approach to AI security.

EFE