Elon Musk says that he will create an AI focused on understanding the nature of the universe and will call it TruthGPT. The Twitter owner thinks this to be the best ‘path to safety’.
The billionaire has recently announced that he is planning to create an AI called ‘TruthGPT’. Musk feels that creating this AI is the only ‘path to safety’ as, since the AI’s primary focus will be to find out more about the universe, it will refrain from trying to get rid of humans because we are also a ‘beautiful part of the universe’.
Musk has often criticised ChatGPT and its parent company OpenAI for various reasons. At first he had a problem with ChatGPT being ‘too woke’ and was concerned over the dangers of artificial intelligence. Then he started targeting OpenAI and said that Microsoft had turned it into a profit-making machine while the company was never supposed to be that. He had also called out OpenAI’s decision to turn into a for-profit company and wondered if it was ‘legal’.
It is worth mentioning that Musk was, in fact, one of the founders of OpenAI when it was established in 2015. However, he had left the company in 2018 and had also given up all his stake in it.
Earlier, reports had claimed that Musk OpenAI due to a conflict of interest situation as his other companies, Tesla and Space X, were also working on AI technologies at the time. However, a Semafor report recently revealed says that there was more to this story and Musk wanted to run OpenAI and entered into a conflict with other co-founders about the same. When a mutual agreement wasn’t reached, Musk quit OpenAI.
