Elon Musk this week confirmed his intentions to construct an AI undertaking that may rival Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. Musk’s AI enterprise is to develop a ‘truth-seeking’ generative AI that guarantees to be safer than current generative AI companies.
“I am going to start out one thing which I name ‘TruthGPT’, or a most truth-seeking AI that tries to grasp the character of the universe,” stated Elon Musk in an interview with Tucker Carlson at Fox Information, experiences Reuters. “It’s merely beginning late. However I’ll attempt to create a 3rd choice.” He is also reported to have stated that, “AI is extra harmful than, say, mismanaged plane design or manufacturing upkeep or dangerous automotive manufacturing.”
Whereas the entrepreneur didn’t reveal another particulars about his AI undertaking within the interview, Elon Musk shared his apprehension relating to the extent of authority that Microsoft has over OpenAI, and the shift within the firm’s strategy from being a nonprofit enterprise, experiences Bloomberg. Musk additionally expressed issues about chatbots being excessively politically right and declared that his personal AI would think about discovering fact, however he refrained on disclosing how the AI seeks to search out the reality.
Elon Musk’s new AI enterprise is anticipated to be a separate separate entity from his different companies, and its actual place inside Musk’s enterprise empire stays unsure. But, unofficial sources word that the corporate would possibly use Twitter content material for language mannequin coaching and use Tesla’s huge computing assets.
To construct the AI startup, Musk is recruiting AI engineers from main corporations and about half a dozen of rockstar AI specialists are already onboard. Earlier it was reported that about 10,000 Nvidia compute GPUs (Nvidia A100 or H100, it isn’t clear but) have been procured for Musk’s AI undertaking wants, which implies that a whole lot of tens of millions of {dollars} have already been spent on it. In the meantime, Musk is additionally reportedly in discussions with SpaceX and Tesla buyers relating to the funding of this AI undertaking, in accordance a Monetary Instances report.