Elon Musk has joined the AI race triggered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT that has largely shown efficacy in handling a variety of tasks, including composing essays and writing codes.
The Tesla and Twitter CEO is reportedly recruiting AI researchers that will help to build a research lab for the development of AI-powered chatbot that will stand as alternative to ChatGPT, according to The Information.
The report said Musk has been recruiting Igor Babuschkin, a researcher who recently left Alphabet’s DeepMind AI unit.
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Musk, a cofounder of OpenAI, has criticized ChatGPT’s monetization – saying it goes against the original plan to make OpenAI non-profit. The SpaceX CEO cofounded OpenAI in 2015 with the company’s current CEO, Sam Altman, but left the board in 2018 without holding shares.
Musk has also called for the regulation of AI which he said is a threat to humanity. Weeks ago, he said in a tweet that “what we need is TruthGPT,” amplifying his dissatisfaction with the function of ChatGPT which he agrees with critics that it is also woke.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 19, 2023
Musk said that American engineers are pandering to woke ideas in developing AI tools, citing how ChatGPT had described former US president Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 19, 2023
The Information said, quoting an interview with Babuschkin, that he and Musk have discussed assembling a team to pursue AI research but the project is still in the early stages, with no concrete plan to develop specific products. Babuschkin added that he has not officially signed onto the Musk initiative, according to the report.
Musk is not only one from the US tech industry joining the AI race. Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced last week, the company’s release of LLaMA, a new “state-of-the-art” Artificial Intelligence model designed to help researchers in carrying out their work. He also said on Monday that Meta is “creating a new top-level product group focused on generative AI to turbocharge [its] work.” This will help Meta to develop creative and expressive tools that will be used over the longer term, to build AI personas that can help people in a variety of ways. The company said it intends to onboard it into WhatsApp and Instagram over the long term.
Tech giant, Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in OpenAI and has incorporated the ChatGPT into its Bing search engine and Microsoft Team Premium.
—Bank of America said the “adoption rate of this technology so far is unprecedented,” putting us on the verge of another “iPhone moment,” and predicted the economic impact would be $15.7 trillion by 2030. (Fortune)