Elon Musk reveals plan to build 'TruthGPT' despite warning of AI dangers

[onthedarkside]

 

Elon Musk has said he plans to create a "TruthGPT" to counter what he claims is liberal bias shown by a popular chatbot.

 

The billionaire Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX owner told Fox News his alternative to OpenAI's ChatGPT would be a "maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe"

 

Musk also accused OpenAI, in which he was an early investor, of training its chatbot "to be politically correct".

 

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https://news.sky.com/story/elon-musk-reveals-plan-to-build-truthgpt-despite-warning-of-ai-dangers-12859907

 

[ozimoron]

In other words he has no clue is just winging it.

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This probably has nothing to do with the fact that Musk demanded to be made head of OpenAI and was rebuffed. That's when he quit.

 

Elon Musk reportedly left OpenAI's board in 2018 after Sam Altman and other cofounders rejected his plan to run the company

Musk told fellow cofounder Sam Altman in early 2018 that he thought OpenAI, which has since created ChatGPT, was lagging behind Google, people familiar with the matter told Semafor. Musk offered to take charge of OpenAI to lead it himself, but when Altman and other co-founders said no, Musk stepped down from the board and backed out of a huge donation, per Semafor.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-reportedly-tried-lead-openai-left-after-founders-objected-2023-3

[Chomper Higgot]

Has he claimed to have invented AI yet?

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5 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

In other words he has no clue is just winging it.

It's more than that, I think. This is only my surmise, but after stoking up fears about AI, this is Musk's way of trying to enlist the extreme right on his side.

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Musk also claimed that OpenAI was effectively controlled by Microsoft.

 

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman calls Elon Musk a ‘jerk’ as report says the Tesla CEO was ‘furious’ about ChatGPT’s success

Responding to Musk’s claims, Altman said on the podcast: "Most of that is not true, and I think Elon knows that. We’re not controlled by Microsoft. Microsoft doesn’t even have a board seat on us, we are an independent company.”

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-ceo-sam-altman-calls-211537864.html

[OneMoreFarang]

36 minutes ago, onthedarkside said:

Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX owner

Maybe he should concentrate on one of those. He seems to be pretty smart, but he is obviously not smart enough to run three companies. What gives him the idea he will be able to do even more?

Or is he hoping AI will help him to run all those companies?

 

[bendejo]

10 hours ago, ozimoron said:

In other words he has no clue is just winging it.

I guess you can say his intelligence regarding this subject is artificial.    But fret not, his arrogance will pull him through.  Or not.

 

To boil it down, AI is really just a long, complicated if-then-else statement.

 

 

[bendejo]

9 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Maybe he should concentrate on one of those. He seems to be pretty smart, but he is obviously not smart enough to run three companies. What gives him the idea he will be able to do even more?  [ . . . ]

The smarts and imagination that it takes to create new technologies is a long walk from running a profitable company, particularly one that intends to sell the world new concepts.  This guy is out of his league and has had great luck so far, same with Zuckerberg.  The guys who started google figured this out and brought somebody in: they did ok while they were getting big, but they knew huge (like being on the stock exchange) was beyond them, and fortunately for them they chose the right guy.  Everyone likes to point to Apple, but it was Woz who was the tech genius while Jobs handled the business at the beginning; when they got to huge Jobs did not choose the right guy and it got him fired from his own company (for a few years). 

 

Or is he hoping AI will help him to run all those companies? 

 

Don't know how many in here recall, or paid attention to the "dot-com bubble."  Part of the folly was astronomical evaluations for companies that didn't have a product, and for the products they were expected to create the technology did not yet exist.  It looks like that cockamamie mindset is coming back in.

 

 

[OneMoreFarang]

3 hours ago, bendejo said:

The smarts and imagination that it takes to create new technologies is a long walk from running a profitable company, particularly one that intends to sell the world new concepts.  This guy is out of his league and has had great luck so far, same with Zuckerberg.  The guys who started google figured this out and brought somebody in: they did ok while they were getting big, but they knew huge (like being on the stock exchange) was beyond them, and fortunately for them they chose the right guy.  Everyone likes to point to Apple, but it was Woz who was the tech genius while Jobs handled the business at the beginning; when they got to huge Jobs did not choose the right guy and it got him fired from his own company (for a few years). 

 

Or is he hoping AI will help him to run all those companies? 

 

Don't know how many in here recall, or paid attention to the "dot-com bubble."  Part of the folly was astronomical evaluations for companies that didn't have a product, and for the products they were expected to create the technology did not yet exist.  It looks like that cockamamie mindset is coming back in.

Good post.

I agree, there are lots of people who will invest in anything just because of the name Elon Musk. Let's see.

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4 hours ago, bendejo said:

The smarts and imagination that it takes to create new technologies is a long walk from running a profitable company, particularly one that intends to sell the world new concepts.  This guy is out of his league and has had great luck so far, same with Zuckerberg.  The guys who started google figured this out and brought somebody in: they did ok while they were getting big, but they knew huge (like being on the stock exchange) was beyond them, and fortunately for them they chose the right guy.  Everyone likes to point to Apple, but it was Woz who was the tech genius while Jobs handled the business at the beginning; when they got to huge Jobs did not choose the right guy and it got him fired from his own company (for a few years). 

 

Or is he hoping AI will help him to run all those companies? 

 

Don't know how many in here recall, or paid attention to the "dot-com bubble."  Part of the folly was astronomical evaluations for companies that didn't have a product, and for the products they were expected to create the technology did not yet exist.  It looks like that cockamamie mindset is coming back in.

 

 

Now if only Jobs had had the smarts to create something like a phone that was intuitively easy to understand and would radically change the whole consumer technology scene. I guess we'll all just have to wait for someone else to come along and make that happen.

[klauskunkel]

17 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Has he claimed to have invented AI yet?

No, but I suspect he secretly identifies as one...