© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk, Chief Govt Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and proprietor of Twitter, gestures as he attends the Viva Expertise convention devoted to innovation and startups on the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France, June 16, 202
(Reuters) -Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur, launched his long-teased synthetic intelligence startup xAI on Wednesday, unveiling a staff comprised of engineers from the identical large U.S. know-how companies that he hopes to problem in his bid to construct a substitute for ChatGPT.
The startup will probably be led by Musk, already the CEO of electrical automobile maker Tesla (NASDAQ:) , CEO of rocket launch firm SpaceX and proprietor of Twitter, who has stated on a number of events that the event of AI must be paused and that the sector wanted regulation. Musk has repeatedly voiced issues about AI’s potential for “civilizational destruction.”
In a Twitter Areas occasion Wednesday night, Musk defined his plan for constructing a safer AI. Relatively than explicitly programming morality into its AI, xAI will search to create a “maximally curious” AI, he stated.
“If it tried to know the true nature of the universe, that is really one of the best factor that I can give you from an AI security standpoint,” Musk stated. “I believe it’ll be pro-humanity from the standpoint that humanity is simply rather more fascinating than not-humanity.”
Musk additionally predicted that superintelligence, or AI that’s smarter than people, will arrive in 5 or 6 years.
Musk co-founded OpenAI, the corporate behind ChatGPT, in 2015, however stepped down from the corporate’s board in 2018.
Microsoft (NASDAQ:) is an investor in OpenAI.
The web site for xAI stated it would maintain a Twitter Areas occasion on July 14.
The staff at xAI consists of Igor Babuschkin, a former engineer at Google’s DeepMind; Tony Wu, who labored at Google (O:); Christian Szegedy, who was additionally a analysis scientist at Google; and Greg Yang, who was beforehand at Microsoft.
Musk in March registered a agency named X.AI Corp, included in Nevada, in line with a state submitting. The agency lists Musk as the only real director and Jared Birchall, the managing director of Musk’s household workplace, as a secretary.
Musk had stated in April that he would launch TruthGPT, or a most truth-seeking AI to rival Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Bing AI that tries to know the character of the universe.
Generative AI caught the limelight with OpenAI’s launch of well-liked chatbot ChatGPT, which got here in November final 12 months, forward of the launch of Bard and Bing AI.
Dan Hendrycks, who will advise the xAI staff, is presently director of the Heart for AI Security and his work revolves across the dangers of AI.
Musk’s new firm is separate from X Corp, however will work carefully with Twitter, Tesla and different corporations, in line with the web site.
xAI stated it’s recruiting skilled engineers and researchers within the San Francisco Bay Space.
