Musk wants to equip his OpenAI rival with one billion dollars
Elon Musk wants to counter the AI high-flyer ChatGPT with his own chatbot. He has already raised more than one hundred million dollars. The bot "loves sarcasm", announces the tech billionaire.
Elon Musk wants to give his artificial intelligence company xAI a hefty injection of capital and raise one billion dollars from investors. This is according to a notification to the US financial regulator SEC. According to Musk, xAI is to develop AI tools that "support humanity in its quest for understanding and knowledge". According to the announcement, 135 million dollars have already been raised from four investors.
Musk founded xAI in July. It recently presented its first project, the chatbot "Grok". The program is designed to access information from the social media platform X, which is also owned by Musk, in real time. The bot "loves sarcasm", says Musk. "I wonder who steered it in that direction." Grok is designed to respond humorously to questions.
The English word "grok" comes from the jargon of programmers and means "to understand something deeply". Among other things, Musk wants to use "Grok" to compete with the popular chatbot ChatGPT from OpenAI, which has triggered an AI frenzy in the tech industry.
Musk wants regulation
Musk was one of the co-founders of OpenAI in 2015. However, he left three years later after a dispute over control of the company. Musk criticizes ChatGPT as "tainted by the 'wokeness virus'". The English term "woke" means "to be awake" and initially referred to racial discrimination. In the meantime, however, conservatives and libertarians in particular are using it in a derogatory way because the commitment against various types of discrimination and the demands derived from it go too far for them.
Musk has long been trying to influence the development of artificial intelligence. At the same time, he expresses concerns about security risks and calls for state regulation. He recently compared AI to a "genie in a bottle". It could fulfill your every wish - but fairy tales rarely end well.
According to ChatGPT, however, most traditional fairy tales end "happily". Often a story is told "in which the main character(s) overcome various challenges and eventually find happiness or receive a reward. This reflects one of the main functions of fairy tales: to convey morals and portray good versus evil, with good often triumphing in the end."
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Musk plans to expand xAI's resources by securing an additional billion dollars from investors. This is to develop AI tools that can positively contribute to humanity's understanding and knowledge, potentially serving as a competitor to ChatGPT from OpenAI.
In a bid to address the potential risks of AI, Musk has called for regulation, likening it to a "genie in a bottle" that could fulfill our desires but may not always lead to positive outcomes.
Source: www.ntv.de
