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How to train your future robot overlords
Artificial Intelligence or AI has been making waves with the release of ChatGPT. Released in November 2022, it was a project begun under Elon Musk’s open source OpenAI project, which was intended to remain transparent to the public. He resigned from the board in 2018, citing possible conflicts of interest with Tesla’s own AI work.
In 2019 it received a $1 billion investment from Microsoft. By 2020, Musk tweeted, “I have no control & only very limited insight into OpenAI,” adding his confidence in its safety was “not high.”
In January 2023 Musk tweeted: “I just learned that OpenAI had access to Twitter database for training. I put that on pause for now.”
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