Elon Musk to launch ‘TruthGPT’ to take on Google, Microsoft and OpenAI
Elon Musk has announced his intention to launch an AI platform called “TruthGPT” to compete against current offerings from Microsoft and Google. Musk criticised Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the parent company of chatbot sensation ChatGPT, for “training AI to lie.”
According to a report in Reuters, Musk said in an interview with Fox News Channel that he will launch an artificial intelligence platform called ‘TruthGPT’ to take on rival ChatGPT.
“I’m going to launch a platform that I call ‘TruthGPT,’ or a maximally truth-seeking AI platform that tries to understand the nature of the universe,” Musk said in an interview with Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson. He added that TruthGPT would be the “best path to security” that “is unlikely to exterminate humans.”
He said OpenAI has now become a ‘closed source’ for-profit organisation with ‘close ties to Microsoft’. Musk also accused Google co-founder Larry Page of not taking AI security seriously. According to the report, Musk is seeking AI researchers from Alphabet’s Google to launch a startup to counter Open AI. Elon Musk recently registered a company called X.AI Corporation in Nevada.
Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives said OpenAI needed six months to develop systems more powerful than the newly launched GPT-4. This move is in view of the risks posed to society by services like ChatGPT.
In his interview with Carlson, Musk reiterated his warnings about AI. “AI is more dangerous than unregulated aircraft design or poor car manufacturing”. “It has the potential to plunge humanity into ruin,” he said. For example, he said, a super-intelligent AI could write incredibly well and manipulate public opinion.
Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015. But in 2018, he was removed from the board of the company. In 2019, he tweeted that he left OpenAI to focus on Tesla and SpaceX.
In January, Microsoft Corporation announced a billion-dollar investment in Open AI. Competition with rival Google has intensified and the race to attract AI funding has intensified in Silicon Valley.
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