Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and Twitter, has created a new artificial intelligence (AI) corporation in the US state of Nevada called X.AI. Business documents revealed Musk’s involvement in the company, which was founded on the 9th of March this year. On the other hand, the tech entrepreneur has recently made a call for a pause in the development of AI systems.
Musk has also been reported to have purchased computers and processors with high costs and to have hired engineers to work on an AI project for Twitter. At the same time, the billionaire cut off many jobs at Twitter after the completion of the $44 billion acquisition late last year.
An open letter signed by Elon Musk and other influential people was posted on the website of the Musk-funded Future of Life Institute for a six-month hiatus in the development of AI with human-level intelligence. The signatories believe that this is necessary to establish proper regulation of AI systems to make sure they are safe. Whereas while critics pointed out the flaws in the letter, tech companies like Google, Meta, and Microsoft have been investing heavily in AI over the years.
For instance, the San Francisco-based OpenAI released ChatGPT, an AI capable of generating native language text after visualizing a prompt. OpenAI was co-founded by Musk, but the tech mogul withdrew his support in 2018. Microsoft announced its own AI investment of billions of dollars in the same company, which is integrated into its Bing search service.
To conclude, Elon Musk’s creation of X.AI brings about a new artificial intelligence corporation based in the United States, rivaling OpenAI, despite his emphasis on the need for a pause in AI development. His ambitions from Tesla and Twitter also come into play in his project, with his purchase of computing hardware and his layoffs at Twitter. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s AI integration into Bing are some of the examples of the current AI trend, though its implications are still unknown.
