Billionaire, Elon Musk, is currently developing an idea initiative to create an alternative to ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot. Mr Musk was a co-founder of OpenAI, the parent firm of ChatGPT, but departed in 2018 because of conflicts with management. In recent months, he has been critical of the corporation and its products, particularly ChatGPT. The chatbot was released in November of last year and has since made ripples around the world.
The Vice report is based on a researcher interview published in The Information. Mr Musk has hired Igor Babuschkin, a former Google DeepMind AI unit employee, to supervise the creation of the rival chatbot.
Elon Musk is designing a ChatGPT competitor to combat “awake” AI. According to The Information, he is in talks to establish a rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and has addressed AI researchers about forming a research facility. Musk has repeatedly warned about AI’s cultural perspective and the “woke mind virus.”
Is ChatGPT hostile to conservatives? “It’s a major issue,” Musk said on Twitter. He tweeted in December, “The danger of training AI to be woke – in other words, lie – is catastrophic.” Musk tweeted a meme on Tuesday depicting a “Based AI” dog attacking “Woke AI” and “Closed AI” monsters. The term “based” refers to being anti-woke.
Mr Babuschkin briefed about the project: “The idea is to increase these language models’ reasoning ability and factualness. This includes ensuring that the model’s output is more trustworthy and reliable.” Unfortunately, the initiative is still in its early stages, with few specifics accessible. The Twitter CEO has dropped some hints about the name of the next chatbot in his latest meme tweet.
In a couple of hours, he stated during a presentation to Tesla investors on the company’s objectives, “AI stresses me out.” When questioned by an analyst if artificial intelligence could help Tesla construct automobiles, Mr Musk seemed somewhat sanguine. “I don’t see AI ever helping us create automobiles,” he remarked. “At that point… it’s pointless for any of us to work.” After users tweeted about how ChatGPT is helping people compose prose, poetry and computer code, Mr Musk raised a red flag calling the AI “dangerously strong”.
Musk has a track history of investing in AI as a backer of DeepMind and OpenAI. Musk co-founded OpenAI as a non-profit research group in 2015. He dissolved his relationship in 2018.
OpenAI President Sam Altman admits that ChatGPT, like other AI solutions, has “bias problems.” According to Mark Riedl, a technology professor and associate director of the Georgia Tech Machine Learning Academy, ChatGPT has been trained to avoid politically contentious issues and to be sensitive in how it replies to requests affecting underrepresented or vulnerable groups of people.
OpenAI is also attempting to avoid what happened in 2016 when Microsoft debuted Tay, a chatbot on Twitter that began spouting racial slurs and other offensive phrases. Microsoft apologised and shut down the site.
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