Elon Musk took to Twitter to talk about his new artificial intelligence company, xAI, outlining a vague goal of “understanding” the universe and explaining that the best way to create a super-intelligent computer was to train it to be curious about the world and humanity.
The billionaire formally announced the company Wednesday after months of saying he was planning to form a new venture to get in on the booming “generative” AI space. He announced an all-male team of AI researchers drawn from Google, OpenAI and the University of Toronto.
Musk has been outspoken about AI for years, famously saying in 2014 that inventing super-intelligent computers would be like “summoning the demon” and could create an existential threat to humanity. He helped found ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, in 2015, but left the company in 2018 after disagreements with its other leaders. Over the past few months, he has complained about OpenAI and other AI companies scraping Twitter data to help train their bots.
Tesla, the publicly-traded electric vehicle company Musk is the primary owner of, has a robust AI team already who have worked for years on giving the cars self-driving capabilities. Musk has said his new AI venture will work closely with both Twitter and Tesla.
Musk initially delayed the beginning of the event to wait for more listeners to join. He said he was adjusting Twitter’s algorithm so the space showed up for more people. About 34,000 people were listening when it started.
This story is developing and will be updated.
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