Will launch rival to Microsoft-backed ChatGPT, announces Elon Musk
Billionaire Elon Musk said he will launch an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that he calls "TruthGPT" to challenge the offerings from Microsoft and Google.
FollowBillionaire Elon Musk said he will launch an artificial intelligence, which he calls "TruthGPT," in an apparent challenge to ChatGPT, the popular chatbot from OpenAI. "I'm going to start something I'm calling 'TruthGPT,' or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe," Musk said in an interview with FOX News Channel's Tucker Carlson.
He criticised Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the firm behind chatbot sensation ChatGPT, of "training the AI to lie" and said OpenAI has now become a "closed source", "for-profit" organisation "closely allied with Microsoft".
"And I think this might be the best path to safety, in the sense that an AI that cares about understanding the universe, it is unlikely to annihilate humans because we are an interesting part of the universe," he stated, according to certain extracts of the interview.
Musk has been poaching AI researchers from Alphabet Inc’s Google to launch a startup to rival OpenAI. According to a state document, Musk created a company called X.AI Corp in Nevada last month. Musk was designated as the only director, with Jared Birchall, the managing director of Musk's family office, serving as secretary.
The move comes despite Musk and a group of artificial intelligence researchers and industry leaders calling for a six-month moratorium on constructing systems more powerful than OpenAI's recently debuted GPT-4, citing possible societal hazards.
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Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, but he left the company's board of directors in 2018. In 2019, he stated that he was leaving OpenAI to work on Tesla and SpaceX. Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has also taken over as CEO of Twitter, which he purchased for $44 billion last year.
Microsoft Corp announced a new multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI in January, strengthening competition with competitor Google and fuelling the battle for AI funding in Silicon Valley.
