Elon Musk officially joined the race to conquer the Artificial intelligence with the launch of his new company call xAI, after years of stating that this technology will be the cause of the disappearance of humanity. The Twitter boss hasn't shared many details about the business, but revealed that his intention is to “understand the true nature of the universe.” The xAI team includes members who previously worked at DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, and Tesla.
Until now, the website of xAI It does not have much information nor does it provide data on the new company of Elon Musk, but it was detailed that this Friday, July 14, all the details of the company will be announced through a live broadcast on Twitter; social network of which the tycoon and one of the richest men in the world also owns. In another message it was detailed that the launch date is to honor the novel 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' by Douglas Adams.
The CEO of Tesla registered the company called X.AI Corp in March, based in Nevada, United States, according to a document from that state. The firm includes Elon Musk as sole director and Jared Birchall as the manager and secretary of the company focused on Artificial Intelligence. Although the company's official Twitter account was launched in May, it was only now that it began issuing messages ahead of the official launch on Friday, July 14.
This is the xAI TEAM, Elon Musk's new company
Many of the founding members of xAI In addition to Elon Musk, they are experts in great Artificial intelligence. The xAI team includes DeepMind researcher Igor Babuschkin, Google Brain research scientist Zihang Dai, and DeepMind's Toby Pohlen. The tycoon's new company took more than one by surprise, since over the years, the technology guru has been a critic of AI.
Just in March, Elon Musk criticized the impact that the Artificial intelligence in the coming years, and along with 1,000 technology industry leaders called for a pause in the “dangerous race” to develop the AI, because they fear a “profound risk for society and humanity” that could also have “catastrophic” effects. And it is not the only petition that the millionaire has joined.
In 2015, together with the late Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk signed another document that warned of the dangers of Intelligence Artificial if it was not regulated and established a code of ethics. And, on that occasion, the signatories feared that the machines could get out of control, leading humanity to a dark future. Although he has been a big critic of AI, in April he revealed that he had plans to release “the third option” for Microsoft and Google, called “TruthGPT.”
Elon Musk's new business called xAI is not the businessman's first artificial intelligence company, since in 2015 he co-founded OpenAI but resigned from the company's board of directors in 2018. A year later, he confessed on Twitter that he left the company because it wanted to focus on Tesla and SpaceX.