- Elon Musk is reportedly trying to develop a rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
- According to The Information, Musk is approaching researchers about setting up a new lab.
- The billionaire co-founded OpenAI in 2015, but has recently been critical of viral chatbots.
Elon Musk is reportedly looking to develop a rival to OpenAI’s buzzy chatbot, ChatGPT.
Musk has already approached several AI researchers about the possibility of a research lab. information It was reported by a person familiar with the matter.
According to the publication, Tesla’s CEO has asked former DeepMind senior researcher Igor Babuschkin to lead the project. Babushkin added that he specializes in the kind of machine learning needed to develop chatbots. According to his LinkedIn profile, he previously worked at OpenAI.
Babushkin told The Information that he left Google’s DeepMind last week but has not formally signed on to Musk’s project.
Musk co-founded OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, in 2015, but left the company in 2018. called The company’s chatbot “scary good.”
However, he has recently been critical of both AI companies and viral chatbots. The billionaire has challenged some of the chatbot safeguards, calling some reactions “concerned”.
Musk has also raised concerns about the accuracy of ChatGPT.As an insider reported, in December he Tweet It appeared to be a screenshot of a ChatGPT response rejecting arguments in favor of fossil fuels, from energy expert Alex Epstein, who advocates the use of fossil fuels. said at the time“There is great danger in training an AI to lie.”
Musk also appeared to praise OpenAI’s technology at times. say it ChatGPT was “terrifyingly good”.
“I would like to work with Elon in the LLM space,” Babuschkin told The Information, referring to large-scale language models, the technology behind AI tools like ChatGPT. But he added that creating chatbots with fewer safeguards was not Musk’s goal.
Representatives for Musk and Babuschkin did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.