(Los Angeles) Elon Musk explained on Monday that he was working on the creation of his own artificial intelligence, a project dubbed “TruthGPT”, responsible for “seeking the maximum truth” and competing with other existing software, which according to him does not include enough safeguards.
“I’m going to launch something called Truth GPT or an AI that seeks the maximum truth and tries to understand the nature of the universe,” detailed Mr. Musk in an interview on the American channel FoxNews.
The boss of Twitter, Tesla, SpaceX and Neuralink believes that this is the “best way” to guarantee the safety of humanity, because “an AI that cares about understanding the universe does not risk annihilating humans, because we’re an interesting part of the universe. »
According to him, this ideal AI would act a bit like humans, who aspire to “protect the habitat” of chimpanzees, while they would have the ability to “hunt and kill them all”.
Various specialized media had already reported for a few weeks that Mr. Musk is investing in the field of artificial intelligence. In particular, in March he founded a new company specializing in this field, called X. AI and based in Nevada.
According to FinancialTimesthis new entity must compete with OpenAI, the Californian start-up that designed ChatGPT, a latest-generation AI capable of interacting with humans and producing all kinds of texts on demand.
The success of this interface since its release at the end of November has launched a real race for this high-potential technology.
In February, Mr. Musk had already revealed his intentions by tweeting: “What we need is TruthGPT. »
He co-founded OpenAI in 2015, before leaving the company in 2018.
He has since criticized the company, saying in particular in a tweet last December that it trains the AI to be “woke” (a term designating a fringe of the American left), that is to say to “lie”.
On Monday, Musk, a signatory to a recent call for a pause in next-generation AI research, said the technology “has the potential to destroy civilization” and called for a “regulator” to be created. the area.
According to FinancialTimesthe entrepreneur recently recruited Igor Babuschkin and Manuel Kroiss, both of whom worked for DeepMind, the AI branch of Alphabet (parent company of Google).
He also reportedly bought some 10,000 graphics processors – computers needed to train language models, the foundation of generative AI systems.