Elon Musk is working on an alternative to OpenAI’s popular chatbot ChatGPT that is a “maximum truth-seeking AI” he calls “TruthGPT”. In an interview on Monday with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the Twitter chief said the AI will try to “understand the nature of the universe” and might be the “best path to safety” as it is “unlikely to annihilate humans”.

The multibillionaire criticised OpenAI – a software non-profit he helped found – for training its AI ChatGPT “to lie”, claiming the company has become a “closed source”, “for-profit” organisation that is “closely allied with Microsoft”.  “What we need is TruthGPT,” the Tesla and SpaceX chief had tweeted earlier in February.

He also accused Google co-founder Larry Page of not taking AI seriously, in line with his previous warning to the industry along with a group of AI experts, calling for a pause in development of such systems due to their potential risks to society.

In the open letter shared last month, experts called for researchers to stop working on the development of new AI systems for the next six months, warning that if they do not, governments would need to step in.

The letter, signed by academics in the field and AI industry leaders including Mr Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, warned that while the positive possibilities of AI are significant, people could face a more difficult situation.

Experts warned that laboratories across the world are “locked in an out-of-control” race to develop and deploy ever more powerful AI “no one – not even their creators – can understand, predict, or reliably control”. “This pause should be public and verifiable, and include all key actors. If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium,” the authors noted.

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