Elon Musk has shared more details about his rumoured and much anticipated ChatGPT rival, an AI platform he now says will be called TruthGPT.
Musk’s platform is designed to take on Microsoft’s Bing AI and Google’s Bard, and Musk’s announcement comes shortly after he signed an open letter urging AI labs like OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, to slow down development due to what he said were “profound risks” to wider society posed by the increasingly capable AI engines.
In an April 17 interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News,, Musk explained that he is “going to start something which I call Truth GPT or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe”. He added that TruthGPT “might be the best path to safety, in the sense that an AI that cares about understanding the universe, [is] unlikely to annihilate humans because we are an interesting part of the universe.”
We recently wrote about Musk’s plans to develop a ChatGPT alternative following his huge purchase of GPUs, noting that despite Musk’s supposed anxieties about AIs that the general public can access, he planned to launch his own.
In addition to acquiring new hardware, Twitter has been hiring engineers to manage the project. Musk has been openly seeking talent in the AI industry to try and compete with Open AI, and has recruited engineers from DeepMind, the AI research arm of Google’s parent company Alphabet. It’s also emerged that the tech mogul has created an artificial intelligence company called X.AI, based in Nevada.
