All Musk somersaults on artificial intelligence
After getting rid of his shares in OpenAI without thus capitalizing on the explosion of the last period, while in public he joined the appeal to stop ChatGpt, in great secrecy Musk founded his startup on artificial intelligence… Facts and oddities
Impossible to understand what goes on in the head of Elon Musk, the histrionic South African entrepreneur, owner of Tesla, the most capitalized car manufacturer in the world, of Twitter and of an ever-increasing number of large or small companies, operating in the most disparate sectors, from the space economy to biotech (Neuralink), passing through… artificial intelligence.
MUSK AND THE ANTI-ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CALL
That same artificial intelligence that even Musk himself recently asked to study carefully, slowing down the development of new versions, because it could represent a danger of unknown contours. In fact, the former startupper appears among the names of weight in the so-called "anti ChatGPT" manifesto .
"AI systems endowed with intelligence competitive with humans can pose profound risks for society and humanity, as demonstrated by in-depth research and recognized by the best AI laboratories", reads the text which continues with a series of Questions: "Should we let machines flood our news channels with propaganda and falsehoods? Should we automate all jobs, including the most satisfying ones? Should we develop non-human minds that could eventually outnumber us, be smarter, obsolete, and replace us? Should we risk losing control of our civilization? These decisions must not be delegated to unelected technology leaders."
The request of the signatories of what the press has dubbed the "anti-ChatGpt manifesto" is for a break of at least six months from all the activities of the most powerful AI laboratories of GPT-4: "This break should be public and verifiable and include all the key players. If that pause cannot be implemented quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium."
Appellants add, “AI labs and independent experts should use this pause to jointly develop and implement a set of shared security protocols for advanced AI design and development, rigorously vetted and overseen by independent external experts.”
In 2019 Musk and the Founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma , had been the protagonists of a public chat in Shanghai, during which the South African entrepreneur had expressed all his doubts about gloomy future scenarios in which AI will be increasingly powerful.
PARTICIPATION IN CHATGPT
And yet, together with Sam Altman , CEO of OpenAI, Musk himself gave life to the most famous software house today (at times even infamous) in the artificial intelligence sector thanks to the success of ChatGPT.
However, there is one fact that must be emphasized and which probably prevents the entrepreneur from sleeping at night. As of 2018, Musk no longer owns any shares of OpenAI. The question has never been fully clarified, but it can be said with a reasonable degree of precision that Musk had disposed of his shares before the latest major investments by the Redmond House in the field of artificial intelligence.
THE NEW, MYSTERIOUS, STARTUP
In short, even Musk makes mistakes from time to time. More than the nuanced deal, the South African entrepreneur probably resents having been left out of the game of the moment. And for once he finds himself chasing a role he never liked. But at the moment, given that he is the sole administrator of X.AI, he has to try to follow the others. So far, if one thinks of Tesla's Autopilot, it cannot be said that the sector is one in which the entrepreneur has given his best (for more information: That bogus video on autonomous driving that risks crashing Tesla ).
And obviously it is not excluded that the artificial intelligence algorithms developed by the software house are also exploited by the other realities in Musk's portfolio. The new company was practically secret until various newspapers documented its establishment in the US state of Nevada. We still know very little about the startup today: however, the name suggests that the company should deal with artificial intelligence. So while Elon Musk adhered to the manifesto to curb ChatGpt, did he silently constitute his reality?
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/tutte-le-capriole-di-musk-sullintelligenza-artificiale/ on Tue, 18 Apr 2023 05:54:03 +0000.