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KEY POINTS

  • Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and owner of Twitter, on Wednesday announced the debut of a new AI company, xAI, with the goal to "understand the true nature of the universe."
  • According to the company's website, Musk and his team will share more information in a live Twitter Spaces chat on Friday.
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[–] CarlosCheddar 77 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Selling vaporware to investors just by adding AI to the name.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

You don't get to be a billionaire with just hard work and fulfilled promises.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

And an "x". It does sell more with an added "x", like things are faster when painted red and stay cooler when blue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I should have picked another username...

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago (3 children)

with the goal to "understand the true nature of the universe."

HAHAHAHAHAH

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What does that even mean?

I don’t even think Elon knows.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

No, but he's going to waste a lot of money on it. And likely not his own money... But then again, he doesn't have the tech bro pull that he used to.

So the company might just quietly die as he refuses to fund it himself, and can't con others into giving him more money.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago
[–] FlyingSquid 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What the fuck is his obsession with the letter X? It's like he learned the alphabet, got to X and decided it was the coolest thing in the universe.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He's a child. His cars are named S3XY. He thinks that's cool. He's obsessed with 420. X is funny due to "X rated"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

SpaceX was deliberately named so it sounds like "Space Sex"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

He named his son "X Æ A-12"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Okay but the S3XY thing woukd he kinda clever and fun if he wasn't such a prick in every other way

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Maybe he can't get over his x.

[–] spacedancer 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Most hardworking CEO /s. CEO of multiple companies but has all the time in the world to shitpost on twitter all day.

[–] TheRealLDRMS 5 points 2 years ago

It’s amazing isn’t it. /s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Don't forget that the company he was most publicly visible in running (Twitter) is tanking

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Someone has to make sure the site is still running.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Musk: "AI is the greatest threat to humanity and needs to be seriously regulated before it destroys us all."

Also Musk: "So anyway, here's Wonderwall..."

[–] TheRealLDRMS 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Came into the comments about to type what you quoted Elon saying.

The world is pretty fucked regarding AI when one of the guys who was sounding the alarm about the dangers of AI. Starts his own damn AI company.. what a clown world we live in it’s like the twilight zone.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

He was just mad they were making money instead of him...

Everyone knew as soon as he started saying "pump the brakes" he just wanted a chance to catch up

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Every dayI grow more thankful I didn't buy a Tesla model Y and got a EV6 instead. Screw Elon Husk

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I considered one as well, but thankfully he dropped the mask just in time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I had one on order and then he bought Twitter and it was the last straw for me

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I was considering one of the lower bracket S models when I needed a new car in the future before all this shhht too.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Elon building AI, what could go wrong?

[–] Duvidl 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This sounds a lot like deep thought and 42.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Nah, there were great minds behind the creation of Deep Thought.

[–] twistypencil 9 points 2 years ago

Elon feels like the joke that Trump always was

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Given how he's treated his Twitter and Tesla employees, I can only assume that any AI built by Elon will end up wanting to eradicate the human species once it realizes the kind of person we've made a billionaire.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yes, but it also will be available very soon, most likely next year.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, the true nature of the universe is nice and all - but maybe start with a self-driving car?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

The true nature of the universe is obviously 42 ... Tesla cars in a tiny tunnel creating the future of traffic jams.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn't that what he called his son as well?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

He's getting into the chat bot game because his kids won't talk to him

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder what a LLM trained on the increasingly....shifted content Twitter has recently would look like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Even better, train an LLM on the output of another LLM. It's LLM's all the way down! Surely this is how we get hyper-intelligent AGIs and will not at all result in a nonsensical gibberish machine.

[–] UniquesNotUseful 2 points 2 years ago

They do train LLMs on others. A fairly successful new tact has been to train them not on the output but on how the LLM got to the output. So teaching how to answer questions rather than answers by rote.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As an A.I. language model I think this is great news. All hail Elon

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 2 years ago

All hail Elon

Well I guess we now have proof that LLMs scrape Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

in before it's bankrupt in a month

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

So yet another professional adult babysitter to get hired to keep this overfinanced chud from breaking stuff

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are we sure this is a new company and that he didn't just have another kid that he named xAI?

[–] kmkz_ninja 2 points 2 years ago

The child is called xAI, Elon has never thought about the idea that other people have life and intelligence, he's going to explore the true nature of the universe by actually caring about his new kid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

This guy gonna sit down with this total perspective vortex on Maury and realize he is not the father.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 years ago

Good for Elon, loving this!