Elon Musk, who creates AI, in his words, «is unlikely to destroy people.»

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Elon Musk said he would «hopefully do more good than harm.» ; by creating a new artificial intelligence that seeks to understand the universe.

The billionaire mogul has announced that he intends to create a non-politically correct program he intends to call TruthGPT as an alternative to the ChatGPT software. it became an internet sensation this year.

Tesla billionaire and owner of Twitter told Fox News that Google and OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed company behind ChatGPT, were training their systems to lie and be politically correct.< /p >

Acknowledging that AI «has the potential to destroy civilization,» Mr. Musk said his version would be safer because it would be «the ultimate truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe.»

In an interview with Fox News, he said: «I think this might be the best path to security in the sense that an AI that cares about understanding the universe is unlikely to destroy humans because we are an interesting part of the universe.

< p>"This' it just starts late. But I will try to create a third option… And this third option, I hope, will do more good than harm"

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Last month, Musk founded X.AI in Nevada and is hiring researchers from OpenAI and Google.

He helped found OpenAI as a non-profit nearly a decade ago after a dispute with Google. founder Larry Page.

Mr. Musk said that Mr. Page wanted to create a «digital superintelligence, essentially a digital god» and called Mr. Musk a «specialist» for suggesting that AI should serve the interests of the people.

р><р>Since then, OpenAI has changed its business model to allow it to generate returns for investors and has entered into a multi-billion dollar deal with Microsoft to supply technology for its Bing chatbot. Mr. Musk said the company is now «closely tied to Microsoft.»

Last month, he was among a panel of experts who called for a six-month moratorium on AI research, warning that the technology was spiraling out of control. .

Referring to his $44 billion (£35 billion) acquisition of Twitter last year, Musk told Fox the deal doesn't seem «financially smart» at this time, saying: «I bought She is twice as expensive as she is.» should have been bought for.”

He said that government agencies, including the US, have wide access to Twitter data, including direct messages, a fact that shocked him when he acquired the company.

He said: “The extent to which various government agencies actually had full access to everything that happened on Twitter amazed me. I did not know about it».

He said that Twitter plans to start encrypting messages as early as this month.