Elon Musk is working on a new AI-based platform – TruthGPT, which is aimed at countering the bias of Chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. This is an interesting revelation made by Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX chief.
On April 17, Elon sat in an interview with Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson and gave a descriptive statement on the current AI industry and its effect on human life.
“I’m going to start something which you call TruthGPT or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe. And I think this might be the best path to safety in the sense that an AI that cares about understanding the universe is unlikely to annihilate humans because we are an interesting part of the universe,” told Elon.
Elon said TruthGPT will be the third option after Google and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
AI for profit and misinformation
During the interview, Elon criticized ChatGPT by saying that companies are training AI to lie, which is very manipulative to public opinion. However, it’s not the first time, that the billionaire showed a mirror to the controversial replies of ChatGPT.
In fact, he already said these things before on Twitter and expressed disagreement with answers ‘created’ by ChatGPT. These include his view on how OpenAI is now working as a closed-source profit-making company instead of developing a bright AI future.
Elon Musk cofounded OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit organization. Last month, he revealed to pay around $100 million in donations to ChatGPT maker. Initially, the organization was working as a non-profit.
After the ChatGPT garnered widespread attention, OpenAI shrunk its interest in being open source and “non-profitable”. Thereafter, the decision-makers chose to establish the new products as a business.
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced a new partnership with OpenAI through a “multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment”. This allowed the Windows maker to integrate ChatGPT functionalities into its search engine, Bing.
Elon noted the direction of OpenAI and its new quest to seek profit.
“OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it “Open” AI), a non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source, the maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft. Not what I intended at all.” wrote Elon on Twitter.
ChatGPT is continuously indulging in a business model and becoming a manipulator of thoughts. These manipulations consist of fake, outdated information, and left-leaning ideology to form an answer.
Many of the ChatGPT users have reported discomfort in reading responses to various questions. This led to a massive outcry on AI use and how such creations are being used to deter people’s opinions by pushing overexposed agendas.
Civilizational threat:
Elon runs awareness campaigns on the growing threat of AI to human civilization. In the interview, he stated that AI is far more dangerous than a mismanaged aircraft or badly produced car.
“AI has the potential of civilizational destruction. It wouldn’t quite happen like Terminator, because the intelligence would be in the data centers. The robot is just the end effector.” he added.
AI Regulations
The OpenAI founder is actively calling for AI regulations. He also tagged top industry leaders to work together on this matter. However, Elon also has expectations from the government to set some instructions on the use of AI.
“There should be government oversight because it’s a danger to the public” Elon concerned.
On March 22, 2023, An open letter was published “to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.”. This letter is signed by Elon Musk and many other prominent people from the tech industry.
It clearly mentions the risks and the uncontrolled use of AI in the world as well as its risk of failure.
Progress
According to WSJ, Elon has listed a company named “X.AI Corp”. It has authorized the sale of 100 million shares for its privately held business.
It’s also reported that Elon filed this firm on March 9 in Nevada as a domestic corporation in Las Vegas. Under the details, he registered him as sole director alongside Jared Birchall as secretary.
“Pursuant to Rule 7.1 (a)(1) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the undersigned counsel for Defendant X Corp., as successor in interest to named Defendant Twitter, Inc., hereby states that Twitter, Inc. has been merged into X Corp. and no longer exists,” a legal filing states.
Recruitments
To move on with the development of TruthGPT, Elon Musk is conducting the recruitment of researchers. He also brought in Igor Babuschkin from Google’s AI lab DeepMind. However, the Twitter CEO is also seeking more people to form his own AI adventure.
It is reported that Elon has purchased over 10000 GPUs to kick-start his AI research projects, which include a large language model (LLM). However, there’s more information that is awaited whether it’s solely for Twitter or TruthGPT.
TruthGPT:
All and all it’s a great push for the AI industry, where people will get an option for actual futuristic and good responses instead of biased AI models. Therefore, the industry would be excited to know more about the plan of Elon Musk on TruthGPT.
