Elon Musk Launching New AI Firm, xAI — However Why?

Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduced plans for a brand new synthetic intelligence firm on Friday, known as xAI. The AI startup is Musk’s sixth firm, together with Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, Neuralink, and The Boring Firm. In response to Musk, xAI can be set to collaborate with Tesla and Twitter, although it’s unclear precisely how, as of but.

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Throughout a Twitter Areas name on Friday, Musk stated that his new startup xAI would collaborate with Tesla on the “silicon entrance” and the “AI software program entrance,” as CNBC reviews. The Tesla CEO additionally stated that the bogus intelligence startup would work intently with Twitter, to assist educate the “maximally curious” AI methods he hopes to develop for the platform within the coming years.

Musk stated the intent of xAI can be to “perceive the universe,” including that the corporate hopes to construct AI tech that “understands the bodily world and never simply the Web.” He additionally claimed that xAI’s use of Twitter knowledge wouldn’t be a lot totally different from what many are already utilizing the platform for, including that it will primarily be used for “textual content coaching” and “picture and video coaching.”

“I suppose we’ll use the general public tweets — clearly not something non-public — for coaching as effectively, identical to principally everybody else has,” Musk stated.

In response to Musk, “each AI group on Earth” was already scraping Twitter for knowledge, “in all circumstances illegally.” He additionally cites a big enhance in Twitter knowledge scraping within the final a number of weeks as the rationale for Twitter creating new price limits on the platform. Moreover, Twitter is suing 4 undisclosed organizations/folks in Texas for knowledge scraping, as of earlier this month.

Regardless of the announcement, Musk didn’t share any monetary or logistical particulars in regards to the plans to collaborate along with his different firms, or how these partnerships would possibly work. As CNBC notes, Musk’s firms have performed enterprise with one another in numerous methods over time, and lots of of these monetary particulars are publicly disclosed through filings with the Securities and Alternate Fee (SEC).

In any case, Musk additionally says that AI methods would require elevated human-made knowledge, including comparisons to the Alphabet-owned DeepMind AI Alpha Zero, a program that mastered chess, shogi, and go by taking part in towards itself.

Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta additionally use driving knowledge to coach its AI on tips on how to drive. Musk additionally mentioned the supercomputer mission Dojo, which Tesla is growing to make use of for AI machine studying and pc imaginative and prescient coaching.

When requested by Complete Mars Catalog (Omar Qazi) in the course of the name if the automaker would use Nvidia or Tesla-developed silicon, Musk steered that the corporate might use its personal.

“That’s type of a Tesla query,” Musk responded. “Tesla is constructing customized silicon. I wouldn’t name something that Tesla’s producing a ‘GPU’ though one can characterize it in GPU equivalents.”

Time will inform how xAI takes form in its collaborations with Twitter and Tesla, and the startup’s web site says that extra info will probably be “over the subsequent couple of weeks and months.”

Sources: CNBC / xAI

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