Elon Musk to Launch New AI Company, xAI
After heavily criticizing the recent development of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Elon Musk has announced the formation of his own artificial intelligence company, xAI.
According to the company’s official website, the goal of xAI is to “understand the true nature of the universe.” Participating in the creation of xAI are a number of engineers and researchers that have previously worked with companies such as DeepMind, OpenAI, and Google Research. Musk and his employees are set to share more information regarding the new company in a live Twitter Space on Friday.
Last March, the Tesla founder signed a petition calling for a six-month pause on AI technology so that regulation can be considered to address this fast-growing tech industry. Among the signees on the petition was xAI’s team advisor, Dan Hendrycks.
“AI research and development should be refocused on making today’s powerful, state-of-the-art systems more accurate, safe, interpretable, transparent, robust, aligned, trustworthy, and loyal,” the petition stated.
The announcement of xAI comes after several months of Musk publicly criticizing AI tech giants like ChatGPT’s Developer, OpenAI. While Musk was a co-creator of OpenAI, he has criticized the company’s chatbot for being “biased” when generating results for users.
“The danger of training AI to be woke – in other words, lie – is deadly,” Musk tweeted last December.
In the past, Musk expressed a desire to create his own AI technology called “TruthGPT.” In an interview with Tucker Carlson last April, Musk stated that he wanted to make “maximum truth-seeking AI.”
“AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production. In the sense that it has the potential, however, small one may regard that probability, but it is non-trivial, it has the potential of civilization destruction.”
Elon Musk in an Interview with Tucker Carlson
According to the company, xAI will work closely with X Corp. (the parent company of Twitter) and Tesla. This new artificial intelligence company will be added to the impressive list of companies founded by Musk that includes SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and the Boring Company.
