Elon Musk claims that his xAI can be trusted more than OpenAI and Google

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Elon Musk claimed on Friday that his new artificial intelligence company, XAI, can be trusted more than OpenAI and Google to build secure AI systems when computers become smarter than humans.

However, discussing his AI plans on Twitter two days after launching the company, he didn’t highlight how XAI’s work will differ from rivals who are years ahead or what kind of services it hopes to build.

xAI was launched this week with a mission to “understand the true nature of the universe”.

In a 90-minute long discussion that attracted more than 30,000 listeners to his social media site, Musk spoke at length about whether aliens exist and why superintelligent machines might decide not to destroy humanity, but Said of XAI’s work: “We’re just starting from here, it’s really embryonic.”

xAI has joined the race to create machines with human-level intelligence, known as artificial general intelligence, or AGI. Earlier this year, Musk was one of the signatories to a letter that called for a six-month delay in the development of advanced AI to allow time to focus more on security.

“I’ve struggled with this AGI thing for a really long time and I’ve been somewhat resistant to doing it,” he said. “But really it looks like at this point it looks like AGI is going to happen, so there are two options, either be a spectator or be a participant. As a spectator, there is not much one can do to influence the result.”

Musk said he first got involved in AI as a founder of OpenAI, after deciding that Google co-founder Larry Page “wasn’t taking (AI security) seriously at the time”. He left OpenAI before embarking on a series of breakthroughs in larger language models that led to the launch of ChatGPT late last year.

The Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur said that OpenAI has become “greedy for profit” and that as public companies, Google and Microsoft were “subject to all these ESG (environmental, social and governance) mandates and stuff that steer the companies in questionable directions.” push”.

“As a company that is not publicly traded, XAI is not subject to market-based incentives, or non-market-based, ESG incentives,” Musk said. “We’re a little more free to do things.”