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Feb 16, 2023

Elon Musk, who co-founded firm behind ChatGPT, warns A.I. is ‘one of the biggest risks’ to civilization

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Musk is co-founder of OpenAI, the U.S. startup that developed ChatGPT — a so-called generative AI tool which returns human-like responses to user prompts.

ChatGPT is an advanced form of AI powered by a large language model called GPT-3. It is programmed to understand human language and generate responses based on huge bodies of data.

ChatGPT “has illustrated to people just how advanced AI has become,” according to Musk. “The AI has been advanced for a while. It just didn’t have a user interface that was accessible to most people.”

Feb 16, 2023

Elon Musk Has Issued A Stark Warning Over AI. This Isn’t His First Time

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, government, robotics/AI

Elon Musk, an outspoken AI commentator, has reiterated his calls for safety checks at the World Government Summit in DubaiMusk founded OpenAI to promote AI regulation, but says the company’s changed since Microsoft’s investment.

Microsoft and Google are vying to best one another in the field, which Musk worries drives down safety checks in the pursuit of winning the race.

Thanks to the success of ChatGPT, 2023 kicked off with intense hype around the power of artificial intelligence. It’s no wonder Elon Musk, one of tech’s most outspoken public figures, had something to say on the subject.

Feb 16, 2023

Brain Implants Like Neuralink Could Change Your Personality In Surprising Ways

Posted by in categories: computing, Elon Musk, neuroscience

Elon Musk wants to put a computer chip in your brain. Well, maybe not in your brain, but in the brain of some human somewhere.

Musk’s neurotech startup, Neuralink, has been working toward implanting its skull-embedded brain chip in a human since it was founded in 2016. After years of testing on animal subjects, Musk announced in December that the company planned to initiate human trials within six months (though this wasn’t the first time he’d said these trials were on the horizon).

Neuralink has spent over half a decade figuring out how to translate brain signals into digital outputs – imagine being able to move a cursor, send a text message, or type in a word processor with just a thought.

Feb 16, 2023

Elon Musk cofounded the company behind ChatGPT but he’s warning that unregulated AI comes with ‘great danger’

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ChatGPT, a viral AI chatbot, has sparked discourse about the future of AI and how the technology will impact humans.

“It’s both positive or negative and has great, great promise, great capability,” Musk said of AI, adding that “with that comes great danger.”

Musk said Wednesday that the bot “has illustrated to people just how advanced AI has become,” according to Musk.

Feb 16, 2023

Elon Musk says Twitter will provide a free write-only API to bots providing ‘good’ content

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, policy, robotics/AI

Last week, Twitter said it is shutting down free access to its APIs starting February 9. Now, days before the deadline, Elon Musk said that after getting feedback from developers, Twitter will provide a write-only API for “bots providing good content that is free.”

This decision is as opaque as some of the other policy decisions under Musk’s management. There is no information on what constitutes “good content” and who will decide that. However, if Twitter ends up implementing this rule, some bots will get a new lifeline on the social network.

Previously, Twitter shuttered API access to third-party clients saying they broke a “long-standing rule” without any specification. Then the company silently updated its developer terms to reflect that app can’t “use or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications.”

Feb 15, 2023

Musk donated around $1.95 billion in Tesla shares last year

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Feb 14 (Reuters) — Tesla chief executive Elon Musk donated shares worth $1.95 billion in the world’s most valuable automaker to charity last year, a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) showed on Tuesday.

Musk donated about 11.6 million shares between August and December last year, according to the filing, which did not say which organization or organizations were the recipients.

The world’s second-richest person now owns around 13% of Tesla.

Feb 15, 2023

SpaceX drops plans to convert oil rigs into launch platforms

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

WASHINGTON — SpaceX has abandoned efforts to convert two oil rigs into launch platforms for its Starship vehicle, but the company still believes that offshore launch platforms will be part of its long-term plans.

In 2020, SpaceX acquired two oil rigs, which it subsequently named Phobos and Deimos after the two moons of Mars. The company planned to convert the rigs into offshore launch platforms that would be used for its Starship vehicles.

“SpaceX is building floating, superheavy-class spaceports for Mars, moon & hypersonic travel around Earth,” tweeted SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk in June 2020, shortly after job postings for “offshore operations engineers” were posted on SpaceX’s website.

Feb 14, 2023

Traders lost $7.6 billion betting against Tesla over the past month as stock surged

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, finance, sustainability, transportation

The losses for short-sellers betting against Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company have ballooned to $7.6 billion over the past month, making it the least profitable short position for hedge funds, according to data from S3 Partners.

The swift one-month surge in Tesla stock has wiped out about half of the gains short-sellers made last year betting against the company. At the end of December, short-sellers had made a $15 billion profit in 2022, making Tesla the most profitable short of the year.

Shares of Tesla have been on a rollercoaster following vehicle price cuts and a weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter delivery number. But on the company’s most recent earnings call, Musk reaffirmed the company’s long-term growth target of 50%.

Feb 12, 2023

Elon Musk inches close to reclaim throne of world’s richest person

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Separating the Tesla CEO and first place within the wealth standings is simply $3 billion, claims a media report.

Despite losing 200 billion in 2022, Elon Musk is on a recovery, inching closer than ever to reclaim the throne of the world’s richest person.

Elon Musk may soon “reclaim the title of world’s richest person,” claimed a media report on Saturday. “Separating the Tesla CEO and first place within the wealth standings is simply $3 billion.

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Feb 12, 2023

Elon Musk thinks some of ChatGPT’s responses are ‘concerning’

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

Despite his recent criticism, Musk has at times seemed complimentary about OpenAI’s tech — in December, he called ChatGPT “scary good.”

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