Elon Musk, a successful American businessman, has established the “xAI” corporation with the aim of discovering “the true nature of the universe.”
In a recent announcement on July 12, xAI revealed its intention to collaborate closely with Twitter, Tesla, and other Musk-owned companies to make significant strides toward their mission. The company is actively seeking experienced engineers and researchers in the San Francisco Bay area to join their technical team, while having Dan Hendrycks, director of the Center for AI Safety, as an advisor. xAI’s team comprises former members of renowned organizations such as DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Tesla, and the University of Toronto, who have made substantial contributions to the field including the development of widely-used methods such as the Adam optimizer, Batch Normalization, Layer Normalization, and the discovery of adversarial examples.
The xAI team has been involved in notable advancements including AlphaStar, AlphaCode, Inception, Minerva, GPT-3.5, and GPT-4, while an upcoming Twitter Space chat discussing the venture is set to take place on July 14.
According to a report in Cointelegraph on April 17, Musk is creating a ChatGPT competitor called “TruthGPT,” a large language model that the business tycoon claims will be trained to investigate the “mysteries of the universe.” TruthGPT is also designed to battle “left-wing” bias in the industry, Musk claims, and indicates that ChatGPT “is programmed by left-wing experts, which train the chatbots to lie.”
Musk stated that in the future, AI might be “smarter than all humans at everything” in a statement made on July 6. Musk also urged increased regulatory control of the technology. Additionally, he predicted that the world will undergo “very profound change” as a result of AI-powered gadgets like robots and driverless vehicles.
