Elon Musk says he is working on “TruthGPT”, an alternative to ChatGPT that acts as “artificial intelligence that seeks the maximum truth”. The Verge he says:
The billionaire mentioned his vision for an AI challenger ChatGPT during an interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson, saying an alternative approach to creating artificial intelligence is needed to avoid destroying humanity.
"I'm going to launch something I call TruthGPT, or an artificial intelligence that seeks the ultimate truth and tries to understand the nature of the universe," Musk said. "I think this might be the best path to safety in the sense that an artificial intelligence interested in understanding the universe is unlikely to wipe out humans because we are an interesting part of the universe" (Musk now says, unless the AI discovers that the universe would be better off without us.Note mine.).
Musk cited TruthGPT as a course correction for OpenAI, the nonprofit AI software organization he helped found, and has since launched a for-profit subsidiary.
Musk hinted that OpenAI's profit motive could potentially influence the ethics of the AI models it creates and positioned “TruthGPT” as a more transparent option.
In March, Musk and over a thousand other people in the industry signed on an application with which they called the laboratories to halt the training of powerful artificial intelligence systems for at least six months to allow the development of common security protocols. He also quietly founded a new artificial intelligence company called X. AI.
