The Economist
April 22nd 2023
8
The
world this week
Business
Elon Musk said he would
launch a new
artificial
intelligence
platform called
Truth
GPT
as a rival to Chat
GPT
and other generative
AI
bots,
somewhat contradicting his
recent call for a moratorium on
developing such technology.
But Mr Musk reiterated his
concerns about
AI
’s potential
to cause harm, even claiming it
could cause the destruction of
civilisation. It has emerged
that Mr Musk has created a
new company,
X.AI
, incorpo
rated in Nevada.
The X files
Mr Musk’s fascination with the
letter X extends to
Twitter
,
which has now changed its
official company name to
X
Corp and moved its incorpora
tion location from Delaware to
Nevada. Mr Musk has a long
stated goal of creating
X
, “an
everything app”.
Sundar Pichai,
Google’s
boss,
warned that the world was not
ready for the rapid changes
that new
AI
will bring, saying it
would “impact every product
across every company”
(though that isn’t stopping
Google from racing ahead to
integrate generative
AI
into its
advertising, according to a
report). Mr Pichai said the
problem of
fake imagery
would become much worse. In
one recent example an image
of Pope Francis in a white
puffer coat went viral on social
media before it was revealed to
have been generated by
AI.
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