Elon Musk Reportedly Hiring AI Researchers To Build 'Anti-Woke' ChatGPT Rival
By this time, we all know that Elon Musk hates everything"woke" but has little qualms about pushing conservative conspiracytheories on his Twitter. Now, the new Twitter owner thinks ChatGPT is too woke.
Predictably enough, Elon Musk will now try to create aChatGPT rival service that is not woke. It appears that Musk has approachedseveral artificial intelligence researchers in recent weeks to start a newproject, The Information reported.
Fighting 'Woke AI'
The report claims that Musk has reached out to? Igor Babuschkin, a researcher who wasformerly with Alphabet's DeepMind AI unit - the kind that specialises inlanguage AI models like ChatGPT. Babuschkin says that he has not hoppedon to working for Musk yet, claiming that he would like to collaborate in the"LLM space."
OpenAI, the startup that developed ChatGPT was actuallycofounded by Elon Musk in 2015 by a small group of AI entrepreneurs andresearchers. In 2018, Musk left OpenAI's board to focus on Tesla. In classicMusk style, he was critical of how ChatGPT is censoring responses that mightcome off as offensive.
Also read:?What Are The Long-Term Pros And Cons Of OpenAI's ChatGPT?
Musk also called out OpenAI for generating profit, given thestartup was founded as a not-for-profit. He said that the company was createdas an open-source platform to counter Google.
"But now it has become a closed-source, maximum-profitcompany effectively controlled by Microsoft. Not what I intended at all,"Musk had written.
Microsoft has heavily poured money into OpenAI, even usingan advanced version of ChatGPT into its Bing search engine and Edge browser.Musk's not the only one trying to counter ChatGPT.
Also read:?AI Bots Like ChatGPT Can Plagiarise Content In More Than One Way, Warn Researchers
Google's Bard is another AI chatbot that will support GoogleSearch results, but it's not quite ready yet. Meta, too, announced plans tofocus on large language models like GPT to aid AI research.
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