Elon Musk Will Launch Truth-Seeking Artificial Intelligence Platform, 'TruthGPT'

In an apparent response to ChatGPT, the well-known chatbot from OpenAI, billionaire Elon Musk said that he is going to launch an artificial intelligence (AI) platform he calls "TruthGPT."

In an interview with Tucker Carlson of the Fox News Channel Elon Musk stated, “I’m going to start something which I call ‘TruthGPT,’ or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe,” 

According to some sections of the interview, “And I think this might be the best path to safety, in the sense that an AI that cares about understanding the universe, it is unlikely to annihilate humans because we are an interesting part of the universe,”  he stated.

According to sources familiar with the situation, Musk has been poaching AI experts from Alphabet Inc.'s Google in order to found a company that would compete with OpenAI.

According to a state file, Musk registered a company called X.AI Corp, which was founded in Nevada, last month. The firm listed Jared Birchall, the managing director of Musk's family office, as a secretary and Musk as the only director.

"Civilizational destruction’

The action was taken despite Musk and a group of industry leaders and specialists in artificial intelligence calling for a six-month pause on creating systems that are more potent than OpenAI's recently released GPT-4, citing possible threats to society.

The portions from the interview with Carlson show that Musk repeated his cautions about AI, stating that “AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production” according to the excerpts.

“It has the potential of civilizational destruction,” he warned.

In a tweet sent over the weekend, he claimed that at a meeting with former U.S. President Barack Obama, he advised him that Washington needs to "encourage AI regulation."

Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, but he left the organization's board of directors in 2018. He tweeted in 2019 that he had to concentrate on Tesla and SpaceX and had quit OpenAI.

In addition, he tweeted at the time, “Tesla was competing for some of the same people as OpenAI & I didn't agree with some of what OpenAI team wanted to do.”

In addition to running Tesla and SpaceX, Musk is also in charge of Twitter, a social media site he paid $44 billion last year.

Microsoft Corp. launched a second multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI in January, escalating competitor Google's fight and igniting the battle for AI funding in Silicon Valley.