- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
xAI, Elon Musk’s newly formed AI company, has revealed itself with a new website detailing its mission and team at https://x.ai/. Musk tweeted the company’s intent is to “understand reality” without any other details or explanation.
“The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe,” according to the website. The team is headed up by Elon Musk and includes team members that have worked at other big names in AI, including OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, and DeepMind (which was recently folded into Google).
Elon Musk: “No! You can scrape Twitter data for AI research!”
Also Elon Musk: “I’m gonna start scraping Internet data for my AI research”
Also musk: “I’m gonna sue you for creating threads with engineers that previously worked at Twitter”
Also also musk: “We have previously worked at DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Tesla, and the University of Toronto. Collectively we contributed some of the most widely used methods in the field” (from their website)
Also musk: AI is dangerous OpenAI and Google should stop developing it until the legislation is ready