In an interview with Fox News, Elon Musk said that he is working on the creation of TruthGPT — a chatbot with artificial intelligence that will search for the truth. The billionaire noted that his creation will be a worthy alternative to products from OpenAI and Google and will help “avoid the destruction of humanity.”
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“I’m going to start something I call TruthGPT or a truth-seeking artificial intelligence that will try to understand the nature of the universe. I think it can be a safe path in the sense that such artificial intelligence is unlikely to destroy humans,” Musk said.
In February, the entrepreneur tweeted “we need TruthGPT” and pointed out the risks of large-scale artificial intelligence models like those created by Open AI. In March, Musk, along with several other AI researchers, signed an open letter urging companies to suspend “large-scale AI experiments” for 6 months.
What we need is TruthGPT
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2023
The billionaire previously co-founded OpenAI – but left after being turned down to lead the company, leaving it with almost no funding. Now he does not waste a moment to criticize the startup and its main investor Microsoft, noting that due to the desire for profit, they can potentially interfere with the ethics of AI models.
The other day it became known that Musk quietly founded his own AI company called X.AI. According to a state filing seen by some media outlets, the firm is incorporated in Nevada and lists Elon himself as sole director and Jared Birchall, a director of his family’s offices, as secretary. Musk is known to gravitate towards the letter “X” and recently joined Twitter Inc. (in fact, Twitter as a company no longer exists) to a new venture, X Corp.
Earlier it became known that the billionaire bought thousands of graphics processors and hired researchers from DeepMind for an unknown Twitter artificial intelligence project. It is not yet clear whether these two initiatives are related.
In the interview, Musk also mentioned that Twitter is currently working on a feature that will help users optionally encrypt their direct messages, and that it will probably appear next month at the latest. Rumors about the launch of encrypted messaging in the social network have been circulating for a long time, and the billionaire himself is a big fan of the Signal program.
“If you’re having a conversation that you think is private, you can just turn on encryption and then nobody on Twitter can see what you’re talking about,” Musk explained.
