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马斯克：OpenAI's development goes against its original intention, planning to develop a replacement for ChatGPT.

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Recently, Musk has been in contact with artificial intelligence researchers, hoping to establish a new research laboratory to develop an alternative to OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Original Title: "Just now! Interpretation of Musk's plan to develop ChatGPT alternative"

Original Author: Alpha Rabbit Research Notes

Recently, Musk has been in contact with artificial intelligence researchers and hopes to establish a new research laboratory to develop an alternative to OpenAI's ChatGPT.

According to a report by Information, Elon Musk, the current CEO of Tesla and Twitter, has been in continuous communication with AI engineers and experts (including Igor Babuschkin) in hopes of forming a new research laboratory to develop an alternative to OpenAI's ChatGPT. However, the project is still in its early stages and there are no specific plans to develop a product yet.

For several months, Musk has repeatedly criticized OpenAI in public, mainly to prevent ChatGPT from generating potentially offensive text to users. Therefore, Musk has been wanting to recruit renowned AI researcher Igor Babuschkin to his team. Igor is a researcher who recently left the artificial intelligence department of DeepMind, a subsidiary of Alphabet.

Babuschkin mentioned in an interview that building a chatbot with fewer content safeguards is not Musk's objective.

Igor Babuschkin left DeepMind last week and mentioned that he has not yet formally accepted Musk's invitation. He mainly wants to collaborate with Musk in the field of LLM (large language model). LLM is a form of machine learning that trains on a large amount of text to learn the subtle differences in writing and speaking, and predicts which words should be used next after reading one or more sentences.

About Igor Babuschkin:

The academic achievements of Babushkin are as follows: he was the first author of the 2019 DeepMind research paper, and his h-index has reached 53:

(Note: A researcher with an h-index of 50 or above is considered a top expert in their field.)

h-index, also known as h-index or h-factor, is a new method for evaluating academic achievements.

h represents "high citation frequency". The h-index of a researcher refers to the maximum number h of their papers that have been cited at least h times. The definition of h-index and the original intention of Hirsch proposing this measure is to describe the level of a scholar. However, the H factor is a measure that balances quality and quantity for scholars who have already obtained a teaching position and accumulated many years of experience, but it is not very suitable for young people.

Reference: Baidu Experience https://jingyan.baidu.com/article/a948d651335b234b2dcd2ec2.html

His experience is as follows: He has worked at ChatGPT before and is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI.

Story of Musk and OpenAI

In 2015, Musk and Sam Altman (current CEO of OpenAI) co-founded OpenAI as a non-profit startup company. However, Musk left the board in 2018.

On February 18th, 2023, Musk began posting his conversation with ChatGPT on social media.

However, in mid-February 2023, Musk believed that OpenAI had changed and was no longer the company that was founded in December 2015. Musk said that OpenAI was designed to be an open-source non-profit organization, which is also the reason why it is called OpenAI.

He also said:

"Now, OpenAI has become a closed-source, profit-driven company," Musk tweeted. "OpenAI was created as an open-source (which is why I named it 'Open' AI) non-profit company to serve as a counterbalance to Google, but now it has become a closed, profit-driven company controlled by big corporations."

"This is completely not my intention."

Musk admitted that he no longer owns shares in OpenAI, is not a member of the board, and does not control it in any way. (However, Musk does have a relationship with OpenAI board member Shivon Zilis, who recently gave birth to a set of twins).

Musk once said that he participated in the establishment of OpenAI in the hope that it could become a counterbalance to Google. At that time, he believed that the technology giant did not pay enough attention to the risks brought by the technology. A few weeks ago, Musk called for the establishment of a regulatory agency to supervise artificial intelligence, following the spirit of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's supervision of vehicle safety or the Federal Aviation Administration's supervision of aircraft safety.

Elon Musk said: "I believe that the risks of AI to society are actually greater than those of cars, planes, or drugs." Musk urged policymakers not to repeat past mistakes and to take action before tragedy strikes.

What do you think of Musk's foray into AI?