Skeptics warn Musk’s latest endeavor could end up becoming the Truth Social of chatbots.
Elon Musk has said that his AI will be designed to be “maximally truth-seeking” in order to understand the universe. | Joel Saget/AFP/Getty ImagesElon Musk wants his latest politically incorrect startup to become the Tesla of AI — a household name synonymous with cutting-edge technology.
At a time when debates over AI bias and the technology’s potential existential risks to humanity have become their own, Musk’s new firm could nudge the trajectory of the technology’s development in a libertarian direction — if it ever gets off the ground. Tech experts say they find the argument unconvincing. That line of reasoning ”sounds like something ChatGPT wrote,” said Divyansh Kaushik, an emerging tech specialist at the Federation of American Scientists, alluding to the chatbot’s penchant for providing nonsensical outputs.
Other aspects of Musk’s approach are less political. One goal of the firm is to make AI adept at mathematical reasoning, a capability that eludes existing models. But the founding team has already created its own culture war stir, with critics seizing on its all-maleOne friend of the mogul, who was granted anonymity to discuss the controversies swirling around Musk, argued that critics would take issue with the venture no matter who was involved.
“Will somebody be able to use an xAI chatbot to evade housing discrimination law?” asked former Google policy lead Adam Kovacevich, now CEO of the Chamber of Progress, a tech trade group that describes itself as center-left. What if, he wondered, someone asks it “how to build a bomb.”
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