"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.
Yeah, but you know he is only saying this because he reread an Iain M Banks book recently. I cannot stand seeing him quote this stuff.... The fact that he doesn't pick up on the very clear anti-capitalist messaging astounds me.
The thing is that when we said "AI" in the past we always referred to something human-like. It's only recently that marketing calling chatGPT "AI" and the image "AI" things that we have started seeing it as an unemotional algorithm.
Real AI can only include emotion, I think. Is there any animal on this planet that isn't emotional in some form outside of insects or bacteria? We don't consider anything without emotion to have "intelligence" do we?
In computer science inteligence is defined as capable of handling complex tasks.