• Elon Musk and Sam Altman are racing to create superintelligent AI — AI smarter than people.
• Musk mentioned on Areas xAI plans to make use of Twitter knowledge to coach a “maximally curious” and “truth-seeking” superintelligence.
• Musk has just lately been upping his beef with tech leaders, together with Mark Zuckerberg.

Elon Musk is throwing out problem after problem to tech CEOs — whereas he desires to bodily battle Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, he is now racing with OpenAI to create AI smarter than people.

On Saturday, Musk mentioned on Twitter Areas that his new firm, xAI, is “positively in competitors” with OpenAI. He was outlining plans for growing “good” superior AI — additionally known as superintelligence.

Referring to superintelligence as Synthetic Basic Intelligence, or AGI, Musk mentioned: “It actually appears that at this level it appears to be like like AGI goes to occur so there’s two selections, both be a spectator or a participant. As a spectator, one cannot do a lot to affect the result.”

“You do not wish to have a unipolar world the place one firm dominates in AI,” he added.

Over a 100-minute dialogue that drew over 1.6 million listeners, Musk defined his plan for xAI to make use of Twitter knowledge to coach superintelligent AI that’s “maximally curious” and “truth-seeking.”

Musk’s relationship with OpenAI and Altman has been strained through the years. Semafor initially reported that Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, solely to half methods with the group on account of variations with the board and Altman.

The Twitter-owner’s feedback come mere days after OpenAI mentioned they’re creating a brand new group devoted to controlling superintelligence and guaranteeing that this superior AI aligns with human pursuits.

“At present, we do not have an answer for steering or controlling a probably superintelligent AI, and stopping it from going rogue,” OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever and this new group’s co-head Jan Leike wrote in a weblog publish, including that although “superintelligent” synthetic intelligence appeared far off, it may arrive inside the decade. 

Main figures in tech — together with Musk and OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman — have been sounding the alarm over how superintelligent AI poses an extinction danger to human civilization, on par with nuclear struggle and pandemics. 

Musk didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s request for remark which was despatched exterior common enterprise hours.