Elon Musk’s new xAI company launches to “understand the true nature of the universe”

Woland@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.world – 23 points – Elon Musk’s new xAI company launches to “understand the true nature of the universe”
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xAI, Elon Musk’s newly formed AI company, has revealed itself with a new website detailing its mission and team at https://x.ai/. Musk tweeted the company’s intent is to “understand reality” without any other details or explanation.

“The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe,” according to the website. The team is headed up by Elon Musk and includes team members that have worked at other big names in AI, including OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, and DeepMind (which was recently folded into Google).

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It's hilarious to me that Elon insisted on having a headshot and being mentioned first in the team description. Everyone knows he isn't doing anything of value, but he has to appear as if he's writing the code himself because his tiny ego can't tolerate "just" being the money guy.

Haven't you heard? He personally designed rockets, satellites, and electric car batteries and he also mined his own emeralds.

I heard he also hand builds every Tesla. Crazy he has time to do that while meticulously crafting every starlink satellite and raptor engine from scratch!

Elon Musk: "No! You can scrape Twitter data for AI research!"

Also Elon Musk: "I'm gonna start scraping Internet data for my AI research"

Also musk: "I'm gonna sue you for creating threads with engineers that previously worked at Twitter"

Also also musk: "We have previously worked at DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Tesla, and the University of Toronto. Collectively we contributed some of the most widely used methods in the field" (from their website)

Also musk: AI is dangerous OpenAI and Google should stop developing it until the legislation is ready

I would be absolutely shocked if this wasn't just smoke and mirrors marketing.

Wait, I thought Musk wanted all AI development to stop for a while until regulations were put in place?

"Do as I say, not as I do." - Musk and like every billionaire ever.

Oh boy, can’t wait for the new racist, antisemitic, transphobic, far right fascist AI to emerge from this.

I can't wait till it leaks and gets made to write horny stories like the Facebook one did.

So he found time after all the printed code reviews, just amazing

Understand the true nature of making money with AI "research" mirite??

and like who the hell is he gonna hire to do this "research"? they're all going to be bottom barrel D students at best, lol. good luck with that, but i guess you gotta find ways to pump up those stocks somehow, i suppose.

What was the deal between openAI and Musk? I always tough it was his company, but then it wasn't.

He used to be a donor and a board member

In 2018, Musk resigned his board seat, citing "a potential future conflict [of interest]" with his role as CEO of Tesla due to Tesla's AI development for self-driving cars. Sam Altman claims that Musk believed OpenAI had fallen behind other players like Google and Musk proposed instead to take over OpenAI himself, which the board rejected. Musk subsequently left OpenAI but claimed to remain a donor, yet made no donations after his departure.

Given the fuss he made about OpenAI being closed source (a case of broken clocks), it will be interesting to see if this is open source (doubt)