Elon Musk took to Twitter to talk about his new artificial intelligence company, xAI, outlining a goal of building a super-intelligent AI that could help solve complex scientific and math questions and “understand” the universe.During a live audio event on the social media platform, Musk’s team of all-male math, AI and engineering experts spoke about how they wanted to create an AI that was smarter than humans with the goal of benefiting society.
Musk said that questions about the nature of dark matter or unsolved aspects of how gravity works could be among the mysteries his company seeks to explain.
Musk has been outspoken about AI for years, famously saying in 2014 that inventing super-intelligent computers would be like “” and could create an existential threat to humanity. He helped found ChatGPT-maker OpenAI in 2015 but left the company in 2018 after disagreements with its other leaders. Over the past few months, he has complained about OpenAI and other AI companies scraping Twitter data to help train their bots.