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Elon Musk’s new xAI company launches to “understand the true nature of the universe” (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by trashhalo to c/technology

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Elon Musk has launched a new AI company called xAI with the goal of understanding the true nature of the universe. The team at xAI includes AI researchers who have worked at companies like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and DeepMind. Little is known about xAI currently except that Musk seeks funding from SpaceX and Tesla to start it. The xAI team plans to host a Twitter Spaces discussion on July 14th to introduce themselves. xAI is separate from Musk's X Corp but will work closely with his other companies like Tesla and Twitter.

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[–] frog 33 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Given that all of the existing "AI" models are in fact not intelligent at all, and are basically glorified predictive text... any insights an AI could come up with about the true nature of the universe would likely be like one of those sayings that initially sounds deep and meaningful, but is in fact completely inane and meaningless. Calling it now: it'll come out with "if you immediately know the candlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago".

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

any insights an AI could come up with about the true nature of the universe would likely be like one of those sayings that initially sounds deep and meaningful, but is in fact completely inane and meaningless.

There's a term for that:

Deepity

[–] frog 6 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I love that there's a actually a term for it!

[–] gt24@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

AI coming up with sayings of that type is something already being done ( https://inspirobot.me/ ). Youtube reaction videos exist referring to that site (like "Ai Generates Hilarious Motivational Posters" by jacksepticeye).

[–] frog 3 points 1 year ago

Somebody should tell Musk there's already an AI that can determine the "true nature of the universe", so he doesn't need to waste his money. Inspirobot seems to have done it already. 😀

[–] Peafield@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Tried it, the quote was "A hermaphrodite can also be a cop". I'm truly inspired

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