Musk announced plans to create an alternative to ChatGPT

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk spoke about plans to create an alternative to the ChatGPT neural network called TruthGPT. This entrepreneur said in an interview with Fox News.

“I’m going to launch something that I call TruthGPT, or maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe,” Musk said.

According to him, studying the universe may be “the best way to be safe” from artificial intelligence (AI), since “we are an interesting part of the universe” and therefore it is “unlikely to destroy people.” Musk also believes that AI “has the potential to destroy civilization.”

The entrepreneur “tried for years to warn the public” about the dangers of artificial intelligence and, according to Musk, he “used the meeting with former US President Barack Obama not to promote Tesla or SpaceX, but to encourage AI regulation.”

Last week The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on the registration of Musk’s new AI company, called X.AI. According to the interlocutors of the American newspaper, the businessman’s startup will develop large language models and will compete with the products of OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT and the neural network for generating images DALL-E.

At the end of March, the Future of Life Institute published a letter calling for an “immediate suspension” of AI systems training. The petition was signed by Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, philanthropist Andrew Yang and about a thousand other researchers. According to the institute, AI should be developed “only when we are confident that its effects will be positive and the risks manageable.”

Against the backdrop of the popularity of ChatGPT and the neural network for generating Midjourney images from August 2022 to February 2023, the number of users of neural networks increased by 5 times, and the duration of interaction with AI by 3 times, analysts at Tele2 calculated. The rise in popularity of GPT chats has sparked a debate on several fronts in the media and the internet. We are talking about both the change in the labor market due to digitalization, and the vulnerability of certain categories – for example, specialists associated with the accumulation and systematization of knowledge (scientists, lawyers), or representatives of creative professions.