Billionaire Elon Musk recruits talent to develop a new AI chatbot, confronting his own ‘son’ OpenAI

According to a new report by The Information, in recent weeks, billionaire Elon Musk has approached many AI researchers to set up a new research lab to develop a chatbot version to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT – the child he contributed to founding from the early days.

According to multiple sources at The Information, Musk is approaching Igor Babuschkin, an AI researcher who recently left Alphabet’s DeepMind AI division. This is also a researcher who focuses on machine learning models that help run chatbots like ChatGPT.

Although he was a founding member of OpenAI in 2015 as a non-profit AI research lab, he left in 2018.

Since ChatGPT appeared and started to become famous, Mr. Musk has often criticized OpenAI’s technology as an example of “training AI to wake up”. sensitive to issues of racism but have no knowledge of it). This also implies that Mr. Musk wants to create a new chatbot that is less restrictive when it comes to controversies than OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s new Bing Chat.

However, the report also said that this AI research division is still in the early stages of formation and there are no firm plans for developing specific products. However, the report also emphasizes that, despite the conversation, Mr. Babuschkin said he has not officially signed to participate in Mr. Musk’s initiative.

The AI ​​lab will be independent of Tesla’s AI team, the division set up to develop the company’s self-driving technology and computer vision systems for electric vehicles.

Musk has long had a complicated relationship with the AI ​​community. In 2020, he once made a statement that AI will soon become smarter than humans and become the biggest threat to humanity’s existence. Despite those claims, Musk is still one of the big investors in AI research, such as co-founding OpenAI or applying AI for self-driving capabilities in Tesla cars.