Elon Musk: xAI will work with Tesla and search to ‘perceive the universe’

Elon Musk on Friday mentioned the aim of his new synthetic intelligence firm, xAI, might be to “perceive the universe.”

In an usually meandering 90-minute lengthy Twitter Areas audio chat, the billionaire mentioned his imaginative and prescient for xAI for the primary time whereas veering into subjects such because the Earth’s evolution and the fragility of civilization.

In searching for to deepen the understanding of the universe, Musk joked that xAI’s mission assertion can be “what the hell is absolutely happening?”

Musk introduced the formation of xAI on Wednesday after accusing corporations like OpenAI and Google of creating the know-how with out contemplating dangers to people.

OpenAI and Google didn’t reply to request for remark.

He mentioned xAI would search to construct a “good AGI,” as a substitute for Microsoft, Google and OpenAI. AGI stands for synthetic basic intelligence and refers to AI that may remedy issues like a human.

In the course of the Areas session, which had a delayed begin as Twitter wanted to “tweak the algorithm” to advertise the chat to extra customers, Musk mentioned xAI would work intently together with his different corporations, Twitter and Tesla.

The corporate will use public tweets to coach its AI fashions and can also work with Tesla on AI software program.

Such a relationship would have “mutual profit” and will speed up Tesla’s work in self-driving capabilities, Musk mentioned.

He additionally accused all AI corporations of coaching their fashions utilizing Twitter information in what he characterised as an unlawful method.

Musk, who has advocated for rules in AI, mentioned he has pushed for conferences with White Home officers and has emphasised the significance of regulating AI in his current conferences with high authorities officers in China.

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