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Elon Musk: Prefers his own plans to other artificial intelligences
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Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has officially launched his announced artificial intelligence (AI) start-up. The company X.AI announced the launch of its website and employees. The team is made up of engineers who previously worked at Google, Microsoft and OpenAI, for example.
In addition to the start-up, Musk also heads the car manufacturer Tesla and is the owner of Twitter. In the past, he had said several times that the development of AI should be stopped and that the sector needed to be regulated. His AI, on the other hand, is about "understanding reality," Musk wrote on Twitter announcing the company's launch.
Musk had filed a company called X.AI Corp. in March, which is incorporated in the U.S. state of Nevada, according to an official registry. According to the report, Musk is the sole managing director of the company and Jared Birchall, who heads Musk's family office, is its secretary.
Musk was one of the founders of OpenAI, but had dropped out before the company behind ChatGPT grew into a billion-dollar company thanks to a collaboration with Microsoft.
In an interview in April, he had accused OpenAI of training ChatGPT to be "politically correct". His own artificial intelligence, on the other hand, should try to "understand the nature of the universe". This also circumvents the danger posed by AI – namely, for example, that a "superintelligent artificial intelligence" could manipulate public opinion and have the potential to "destroy civilization".
The show Musk chose for the announcement on the arch-conservative US channel Fox was significant: Tucker Carlson is one of the most prominent figures of the culture war in the USA. Meanwhile, Carlson publishes his controversial show on Twitter.
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