Everything indicates that the next crusade of Elon Musk will be against Open AI and ChatGPT. As reported The Informationthe tycoon would pretend create a new artificial intelligence laboratory that rivals the startup directed by Sam Altman, of which he was a founder, in order to develop an alternative to chatbot that today is on everyone’s lips.
To achieve this, Elon Musk would have begun to approach different researchers in the field of AI. In fact, the aforementioned medium indicates that the businessman would have already recruited Igor Babuschkinone of the most notorious exponents of the sector, who until recently was part of Google’s DeepMind project.
Babuschkin himself has said that he would like to work with the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter on large-scale language models, the technology that, among other things, is used to power tools like ChatGPT. However, he clarified that the project is at a very early stage, that there is not yet a plan for the development of specific products and that, in fact, he has not yet officially joined Elon Musk’s proposal.
For the moment, the tycoon has chosen not to make public statements about this possibility. Although it would not be strange if he soon began to talk about it through Twitter, as he usually does. The truth is that the possibility of creating a new laboratory that rivals OpenAI and ChatGPT seems to be more latent than everespecially due to its increasingly critical position against the startup by Sam Altman funded by Microsoft.
Elon Musk would go after his own ChatGPT
While Elon Musk has been impressed by ChatGPT’s capabilities, his acid comments against the chatbot and its developers have been quite recurring in recent times. The entrepreneur has called the GPT-3.5-based tool “so good it’s scary”, but he has also been critical of the measures OpenAI has taken to prevent it from answering questions on sensitive topics. “The danger of training an AI to be woke —to lie, in other words—, is deadly»he tweeted at the time.
the assumption wokeism of things is one of Elon Musk’s favorite arguments when criticizing or establishing points of view. And it is evident that artificial intelligence is not saved from that characterization, at least in his mind. Despite this, Igor Babuschkin denied that the millionaire’s intention is to create a rival to ChatGPT with more lax security guidelines. Although, knowing the attitudes of the businessman, never say never.
Beyond his supposed plan to create a new artificial intelligence laboratory, it is a reality that Elon Musk has had OpenAI in his sights in recent times. On Twitter, he recently posted: “OpenAI was created as a non-profit Open Source company (hence I called it ‘Open’ AI) to serve as a counterbalance to Google, but has now become a closed, top-profit controlled company.” indeed by Microsoft. It’s not what I intended at all.”
Darts against OpenAI and the call for regulation
Something similar was recently stated by Elon Musk at the World Government Summit that was held in Dubai. At said event, he remarked that he was a fundamental part of the creation of OpenAI, which was born to respond to concerns about Google’s lack of attention to the security of artificial intelligence. But he indicated that the company deviated from that original premise and stressed that he no longer had ties or decision-making power over her.
During his presentation, he assured that AI is one of the greatest risks for the future of civilization, and called to establish a regulation. “The challenge here is that regulation tends to be established as a reaction to when something bad happens. But if something bad happens with artificial intelligence, the reaction from a regulatory point of view can be very slow, “he said at the time.
Will we see a rival to OpenAI and ChatGPT funded by Elon Musk? Today it is difficult to know, but the idea is not far-fetched at all.