TECH NEWS – Twitter, SpaceX, and Tesla owner Elon Musk want to get involved in expanding artificial intelligence.

Curiosity is the keyword at xAI, but despite the more prominent names, it should be treated as a startup, as the company is still only at the stage where its founders are brainstorming. The goal is to build artificial general intelligence (AGI for short) to understand everything. AGI is theoretically a step above traditional artificial intelligence and is currently a hypothetical technology capable of solving problems autonomously beyond the training field. AI is an advanced mathematical technology that solves a problem with the help of an existing data set.

If an AGI can solve a critical problem, it can compete with the level of human intelligence. Musk says that with his experience at Tesla, it won’t be that difficult to create such a technology because, with an understanding of the basics of AGI, there will be less need for xAI to rely on brute forcing (when solving a problem using resources). The team won’t be large, but it will be in terms of computations.

Musk (as he was doing a Twitter space broadcast on the topic) was asked how he would prevent a deep state takeover. He responded that the country’s sizeable legal system would be necessary for combating it. Still, he acknowledged that it was a risk that could not be ignored and that he saw America as having the best defenses to prevent interference by government or non-government organizations.

A theme that has emerged is that the government can use national security laws to force companies to meet their demands. Musk responded: “Well, I mean, there has to be a major national security reason to demand things from companies secretly. And, now, obviously, it depends strongly on the willingness of that company to fight back against things like FISA requests. And, you know, at Twitter, or X Corp as it’s now called, we’ll respond to FISA requests, but we’re not rubberstamping it like it used to be. It used to be like anything requested would get rubberstamped and go through, which is especially bad for the public. So, we’ll be much more rigorous, and we are being much more rigorous in not just rubber stamping FISA requests. There has to be a danger to the public that we agree with, and we will, you know, oppose with legal action anything we think is not in the public interest. So other citizens can raise the alarm bell and, you know, oppose government interference if we can tell the public that we think something is happening that is not in the public interest.”

Would he reveal national security requests that aren’t cleared for public revelation? Musk answered: “I mean, it depends on the gravity of the situation. I would be willing to go to prison if I think the public good is at risk in a significant way. You know, that’s the best I can do.” He’s bold.

Source: WCCFTech