Elon Musk says he will start ‘TruthGPT’ in apparent challenge to Microsoft-backed ChatGPT
- His artificial intelligence will ‘try to understand the nature of the universe’, which will make it unlikely to ‘annihilate humans’, the billionaire says
- Separately, Musk has incorporated a new business called X.AI Corp, according to a Nevada business filing
Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday he will launch an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that he calls “TruthGPT” to challenge the offerings from Microsoft and Google.
He criticised Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the firm behind chatbot sensation ChatGPT, of “training the AI to lie” and said OpenAI has now become a “closed source”, “for-profit” organisation “closely allied with Microsoft”.
He also accused Larry Page, co-founder of Google, of not taking AI safety seriously.
“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,” Musk said in an interview with Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson aired on Monday.
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Elon Musk announces ‘TruthGPT’ as rival to Microsoft-backed ChatGPT
He said TruthGPT “might be the best path to safety” that would be “unlikely to annihilate humans”.