Elon Musk announced on Monday that he will introduce a platform for artificial intelligence (AI) he calls “TruthGPT” to compete with Microsoft and Google’s products.
He accused OpenAI, the company behind the trending chatbot ChatGPT, which is supported by Microsoft, of “training the AI to lie” and said that OpenAI has since transformed into a “closed source,” “for-profit” organization “closely allied with Microsoft.”
Additionally, he charged Google co-founder Larry Page with not taking AI safety seriously.
“I’m going to start something which I call ‘TruthGPT’, or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe,” Musk said in an interview with Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson aired on Monday.
“TruthGPT “might be the best path to safety”
He said TruthGPT “might be the best path to safety” that would be “unlikely to annihilate humans”.
“It’s simply starting late. But I will try to create a third option,” Musk said.
According to people familiar with the situation, Musk has been poaching AI experts from Alphabet Inc.’s Google in order to establish a company that will compete with OpenAI.
According to a state document, Musk registered a company called X.AI Corp, which was incorporated in Nevada, last month. The company listed Jared Birchall, the managing director of Musk’s family office, as a secretary and Musk as the only director.
The action was taken despite Musk and a group of industry leaders and specialists in artificial intelligence calling for a six-month moratorium on creating systems that are more potent than OpenAI’s recently released GPT-4, citing potential threats to society.
The portions from the conversation with Carlson show that Musk repeated his cautions about AI, stating that “AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production.”