Elon Musk wants you to know that his new AI company is reliable.
Last week, the Tesla CEO unveiled xAI, his eagerly awaited AI venture that aims to “understand the true nature of the universe.”
The billionaire made it clear in a Friday Twitter Spaces that the company’s objective was to create a “good AGI” that is “maximally curious” and “truth-seeking.” He asserted that his organization shared the goal of developing usable AI and that it competed with other big participants in the market, including OpenAI and Google.
Musk added that competition in the AI industry was beneficial to keep one company from dominating progress and that it also made businesses more sincere.
During the conversation, Musk highlighted that, in contrast to long-standing competitors, his company was only just getting started and referred to the endeavor as “really embryonic.”
The CEO of Twitter has criticized OpenAI, a business he helped start in 2015. He has alleged that some of the company’s AI-powered chatbot’s content moderation is biased and has previously declared his intention to develop his own version of the bot under the name “TruthGPT.”
Musk stated during the Spaces conversation that xAI’s technology might provide “controversial” answers. The “significant danger” of teaching an AI to be politically correct or “not say what it actually thinks is true,” according to Musk, was further emphasized. He pledged that his own business will let its AI model express what it genuinely “believes.”
The billionaire acknowledged that there would be some criticism as a result, but he emphasized that his aim was to create an AI that assiduously sought the truth.
