Twitter: Elon Musk is working on artificial intelligence
Elon Musk is investing in artificial intelligence at Twitter, as the businessman signed a call last month to take a break from research into next-gen AIs.
Artificial intelligence for Twitter
According to information fromInsider, Elon Musk recently purchased some 10,000 graphics processors. Twitter’s AI project would include a language model. These models, trained from large amounts of data, are able to generate all kinds of texts and answer user questions via interfaces such as ChatGPT (OpenAI) or Bard (Google).
Elon Musk, who has laid off thousands of Twitter employees since he bought the platform in October, has also hired AI specialists. It is about the recruitment of Igor Babuschkin and Manuel Kroiss, both passed by DeepMind, the AI branch of Alphabet (parent company of Google).
The Information had already indicated at the end of February that the boss of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter was trying to put together a team to compete with OpenAI, which has been creating a sensation for a few months with the success of ChatGPT.
All the tech giants and many start-ups are investing in generative AI. But the ultra-rapid adoption and progression of this technology also raises many concerns, especially when Sam Altman, the boss of OpenAI, talks about the upcoming advent of so-called general artificial intelligence, when the programs will be “smarter than humans in general”.
At the end of March, hundreds of academics, bosses and personalities, including Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple) and Emad Mostaque (boss of Stability AI), called for a six-month pause in research on artificial intelligences more powerful than GPT-4, OpenAI’s latest language model. They mention various risks associated with this technology, and question themselves in these terms: “Is it desirable to develop non-human spirits that could eventually outnumber and outwit us and replace us? ».
