"I'm going to start something which I call 'TruthGPT,' or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe," Musk said in an interview with Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson to be aired later on Monday.
"And I think this might be the best path to safety, in the sense that an AI that cares about understanding the universe, it is unlikely to annihilate humans because we are an interesting part of the universe," he said, according to some excerpts of the interview.
Musk last month registered a firm named X.AI Corp, incorporated in Nevada, according to a state filing. The firm listed Musk as the sole director.
Musk also reiterated his warnings about AI during the interview with Carlson, saying "AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production" according to the excerpts.
"It has the potential of civilizational destruction," he said.
I also enjoyed that, even in the first movie, Mr. Smith definitely had a distinct emotional personality, even if it was somewhat alien to the human characters. He wasn't beep booping, he "hhhated this place, this ZOO, this reality, whatever you want to call it. It's the smell..." :guts-rage:
And his coworkers thought he was weird for taking the job too personally. They never directly said it, but a few times they look at him and you can clearly see them thinking "What is he doing?!"
"IT's the smell... if there is such a thing." hints that he experiences the Matrix as a very alien and likely unpleasant environment. The fact that the agents, even though they have super-human physical prowess, still have to inhabit human bodies and at least partially follow the rules of the simulation to function there suggests that they're not just interacting with the Matrix through a terminal or something, they're really occupying simulated bodies to interact with the simulation in a physical sense. Imagine shoving a human in to the body of an octopus then telling them to go hunt down terrorist hermit crabs in the pacific!
Also, the whole line about some people being so reliant on the system that oppresses them that they would fight to defend it has stuck with me since 1999, and now I see it everywhere.
God I haven't really thought about the Matrix in ages. The metaphor of the world's leaders blackening the sky just to spite a competing economic power, dooming the whole world in the process, feels exactly like what DC is doing in it's war with China.
The characterizations of the agents was one of my favorite parts of the Matrix and some of the best writing in it.
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