Musk warns of 'Terminator future' in AI race as Zuckerberg prepares ChatGPT rival

Elon Musk unveiled his own AI startup, xAI, after criticizing the rush to develop the technology. Photo: REUTERS/Tingshu Wang

Elon Musk warned the world to be wary of a «terminator future» for artificial intelligence by unveiling his own AI startup.

Mr Musk advised developers not to rush development advanced AI technologies before fully understanding the implications of the new technology.

He told his Twitter Spaces followers, «It's important for us to worry about the future of the Terminator to avoid the future of the Terminator.»

Announcing the Creation of @xAI Understand Reality

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 12, 2023

Billionaire Tesla reiterated his calls to put a halt to the global technology race, stating, “If I could put a stop to AI, or really advanced AI — superintelligence — I would. It doesn't seem realistic.»

Earlier this year, Musk signed a letter warning that “out of control” AI research by “unelected technology leaders” could lead to the development of “non-human intelligence that could eventually outnumber, outwit, become obsolete and replace us.” .

< p>Mr. Musk's warning about the «future of the Terminator» sounded even as he launched his own artificial intelligence startup, xAI. The company has hired a team of engineers from Microsoft, DeepMind and OpenAI, and says its goal is to «learn the true nature of the universe.»

Musk's rival Mark Zuckerberg is also pushing the development of his own AI product.

Mr. Zuckerberg's Meta is gearing up to launch a commercial competitor to ChatGPT, the popular chatbot tool. According to the Financial Times, Facebook's owner previously released a free artificial intelligence bot for researchers, but now plans to introduce a version that businesses can install.

jpg» /> Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is also preparing to launch a commercial ChatGPT competitor. introduce a fee, according to the report.

Meanwhile, Google has also expanded its AI offering. He added 40 more languages ​​to his own AI bot, Bard, and Anthropic, a Google-backed startup, unveiled its own Claude2 model to the public on Wednesday.

The tech giants are racing to catch up with OpenAI, which helped shoot the starting gun current AI hype with the launch of ChatGPT late last year.

Meta declined to comment.