Elon Musk last month registered an artificial intelligence (AI) company called X.AI, based in Nevada. According to an article published Friday by the Financial Times, the new company will compete with OpenAI, the Californian start-up that developed ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence program capable of interacting with humans and producing all kinds of text.
The success of this interface since its launch at the end of November has resulted in competition in the development of this technology due to its great potential.
According to various specialized media, the owner of Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX hired Igor Babuschkin and Manuel Kroiss, both of DeepMind, the AI arm of Alphabet (the parent company of Google), who are also involved in the dispute over control of this technology.
This move by Musk clashes with a public stance he himself took last month when he signed a call to halt AI development.
The hundreds of signatories who supported this text warned of the risks of this technology and asked themselves: “Is it desirable to develop non-human minds that could eventually outnumber and surpass intelligence and replace us?”
Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, before leaving the company in 2018.
He has since criticized the company, including in a tweet last December in which he claimed that AI is trained to be “woke up” (a term for the American left), i.e. to “lie”.
In the official registration deed of X.AI, dated 9 March 2023, he is indicated as sole director Elon Musk and a secretaryJared Birchall, a former Morgan Stanley banker who manages the billionaire’s fortune, according to the Financial Times.
Meanwhile, OpenAI says to pause GPT-5
Sam Altman, CEO and co-founder of OpenAI, has confirmed that his company will not be developing GPT-5, the purported successor to its GPT-4 artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, “for some time,” after a group of Entrepreneurs in the Technological sector -including Elon Musk- have asked in an apocalyptic letter that artificial intelligence systems be suspended for six months.
“More powerful than GPT-4,” Altman said the letter “misses most of the technical nuances about where we should stop,” during a conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which he attended by video conference.
He also assured that his company is not working on developing a GPT-5, so the letter – which has already been signed by more than 25,000 people – seemed a bit “ridiculous”.
While I do agree with the idea that OpenAI should “move with caution” as there is “growing rigor in security matters” i.e. “really important”.
“I also agree that as capabilities become more serious, the security bar needs to be raised,” Altman said at the corporate event.
OpenAI created ChatGPT and then GPT-4, an AI chatbot that can generate human-like responses in seconds, and Microsoft uses its technology in its Bing chatbot.
However, the fact that OpenAI is not working GPT-5 doesn’t mean it isn’t expanding the capabilities of GPT-4.
For those more concerned about the rapid growth of these AI technologies, Altman’s announcement that OpenAI is not developing GPT-5 is no consolation, as the company is expanding the potential of GPT-4 by connecting it to the Internet. for example. also could launch a GPT-4.5, as it did with GPT-3.5.
Likewise, OpenAI isn’t the only company working on this type of tool.
“Society has taken a break from other technologies with potentially catastrophic effects on society. We can do it here. Let’s enjoy a long summer break from AI and don’t rush to fall unprepared.” requested the open letter published by the non-profit Future of Life Institute at the end of March.
The letter was signed by Musk, the co-founder of Apple. Steve Wozniak and American researchers Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russel, among many others.
Source: Clarin
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