Musk, who co-founded OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has expressed concerns about the rapid development of AI and its potential threat to humanity. He has predicted that AI will replace all human jobs and has called for a pause in the development of powerful systems. Despite this, Musk announced the formation of xAI, which he said would build AI systems "in a good way".
Key takeaways:
- Elon Musk has unveiled an AI chatbot named Grok, inspired by The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which is designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and has a rebellious streak.
- Grok has been built by Musk’s new AI company, xAI, and will be made available to premium subscribers on his X platform after testing.
- Grok is powered by a large language model called Grok-1, which has surpassed GPT-3.5, the model used in the freely available version of ChatGPT, on some benchmarks.
- Musk has previously expressed fears about the pace of AI development and has predicted that AI will replace all human jobs in the future.
