The Tesla CEO and Twitter owner officially debuted his A.I. company, xAI, Wednesday after teasing the project for months. Its goal, according to its website, is to"understand the true nature of the universe." Besides Musk, xAI's team consists of former employees of DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Tesla and the University of Toronto.
The unofficial announcement came just about a month after Musk signed an open letter to pause all"giant AI experiments" for six months, but that wasn't the first time the SpaceX founder has criticized the A.I. field. He's tweeted woes about the industry before, saying there are"lots of ways for AI to go wrong," and,"Even benign dependency on AI/Automation is dangerous to civilization if taken so far that we eventually forget how the machines work."
As of now, it's not clear exactly how xAI will actually differ from others out there that Musk criticizes — namely OpenAI's ChatGPT. Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 before leaving its board three years later. He's said the company has an unethical political bias and a for-profit goal, though xAI is also a for-profit company.Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com