Elon Musk works on a ChatGPT rival because it's "too woke"
Elon Musk has reached out to artificial intelligence researchers to build his own chatbot that could compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT. He is planning on forming a new research lab.
According to The Information, Musk has criticized OpenAI, a company he co-founded in 2015, for preventing ChatGPT from producing text that might offend users. OpenAI is using extra safeguards to prevent it from happening, and apparently, Musk has different thoughts. He left the company in 2018 due to a few disagreements and has recently been vocally criticizing OpenAI, especially on Twitter. A couple of months back, he tweeted, "the danger of training AI to be woke – in other words, lie – is deadly," as a response to a Twitter user who asked Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, "to turn off the woke settings for GPT and offer that version as an option for users."
His comments imply that a rival chatbot would have fewer divisive subject restrictions than ChatGPT and a related chatbot Microsoft recently launched.
He thinks "ChatGPT is woke," and it is very concerning. OpenAI's security filters are meant to prevent any kinds of biased or harmful answers the chatbot could give to users. Some researchers still think these filters must be improved as they are insufficient to protect users from harmful acts. Especially for marginalized communities, ChatGPT's biased actions could be very harmful on a psychological level. There are multiple examples of ChatGPT giving harmful answers regarding sex, race, and ethnicity.
Former Google employee Igor Babuschkin to lead the project
Elon Musk recruited Igor Babuschkin to lead the project, a former researcher at Google DeepMind AI, and he spoke to The Information. "The goal is to improve the reasoning abilities and the factualness of these language models. That includes making sure the model’s responses are more trustworthy and reliable," he said. "Musk's plan is not to build a chatbot with fewer content safeguards," he added. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has been teasing his new project on Twitter under the "Based AI" banner, sharing memes and such. He also replied, "Absolutely," to a user who retweeted The Information's article and mentioned how biased ChatGPT is.
His "beef" with OpenAI also includes the company shifting from a non-profit organization to a for-profit enterprise. “OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it 'Open' AI), non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft. Not what I intended at all,” he said in one of his tweets.
Elon Musk has been teasing his new AI chatbot that could potentially compete with ChatGPT, and it seems like he will implement the project soon.
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Uhh, this has already been possible – I am not sure how but remember my brother telling me about it. I’m not a whatsapp user so not sure of the specifics, but something about sending the image as a file and somehow bypassing the default compression settings that are applied to inbound photos.
He has also used this to share movies to whatsapp groups, and files 1Gb+.
Like I said, I never used whatsapp, but I know 100% this isn’t a “brand new feature”, my brother literally showed me him doing it, like… 5 months ago?
Martin, what happened to those: 12 Comments (https://www.ghacks.net/chatgpt-gets-schooled-by-princeton-university/#comments). Is there a specific justifiable reason why they were deleted?
Hmm, it looks like the gHacks website database is faulty, and not populating threads with their relevant cosponsoring posts.
The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk that it’s about to be deleted from my ‘daily reads’.
It’s really like “Press Release as re-written by some d*ck for clicks…poorly.” And the subjects are laughable. Can’t wait for “How to search for files on Windows”.
> The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk…
Sadly, I have to agree.
Only Martin and Ashwin are worth subscribing to.
Especially Emre Çitak and Shaun are the worst ones.
If ghacks.net intended “Clickbait”, it would mark the end of Ghacks Technology News.
Ghacks doesn’t need crappy clickbaits. Clearly separate articles from newer authors (perhaps AIs and external sales person or external advertising man) as just “Advertisements”!
We, the subscribers of Ghacks, urge Martin to make a decision.
because nevermore wants to “monetize” on every aspect of human life…
“Threads” is like the Walmart of Social Media.
How hard can it be to clone a twitter version of that as well? They’re slow.
Yes, why not mention how large the HD files can be?
Why, not mention what version of WhatsApp is needed?
These omissions make the article feel so bare. If not complete.
Sorry posted on the wrong page.
such a long article for such a simple matter. Worthless article ! waste of time
I already do this by attaching them via the ‘Document’ option.
I don’t know what’s going on here at Ghacks but it’s obvious that something is broken, comments are being mixed whatever the article, I am unable to find some of my later posts neither. :S
Quoting the article,
“As users gain popularity, the value of their tokens may increase, allowing investors to reap rewards.”
Besides, beyond the thrill and privacy risks or not, the point is to know how you gain popularity, be it on social sites as everywhere in life. Is it by being authentic, by remaining faithful to ourselves or is it to have this particular skill which is to understand what a majority likes, just like politicians, those who’d deny to the maximum extent compatible with their ideological partnership, in order to grab as many of the voters they can?
I see the very concept of this Friend.tech as unhealthy, propagating what is already an increasing flaw : the quest for fame. I won’t be the only one to count himself out, definitely.
@John G. is right : my comment was posted on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/23/what-is-friend-tech/] and it appears there but as well here at [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/08/how-to-follow-everyone-on-threads/]
This has been lasting for several days. Fix it or at least provide some explanations if you don’t mind.
> Google Chrome is following in Safari’s footsteps by introducing a new feature that allows users to move the Chrome address bar to the bottom of the screen, enhancing user accessibility and interaction.
Firefox did this long before Safari.
Basically they’ll do anything except fair royalties.