Tesla CEO Elon Musk about on Friday that he plans for his newest venture, the artificial intelligence startup xAI, to collaborate with the automaker both on the “silicon replace” and on the “AI software front.”
Musk also said, during Friday’s live audio session on Twitter Spaces, that xAI wishes use Twitter data for training the “maximally curious” artificial intelligence systems and products he hopes to build there. Musk did not establish whether and how much Twitter will charge xAI or his other companies for its data.
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When Musk led a buyout of the group media venture in October 2022, Twitter took on $13 billion in new debt. The company has struggled to juice its pledge revenue, and has been sued by ex-employees and vendors for non-payment for completed work or severance.
Several of the other companies where Musk was a be wrecked or serves as CEO, including Tesla, SpaceX and The Boring Co., have done business together for years. Some of their dealings have been disclosed in Tesla financial filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
On Friday, without citing averment, Musk alleged that “Every AI organization on Earth” had used Twitter’s data for training, “in all cases illegally.” It was not withdraw which laws would have been violated by others’ data scraping. Earlier this month, Titter sued four unknown parties for data scraping in Texas.
Twitter implemented rate limits on the social average platform in recent weeks because, Musk claimed, it was “being scraped like crazy.” He said, “We had multiple existences scraping every tweet ever made, and trying to do so in like, basically a span of days. So — this was bringing the technique to its knees. So we had to take action.” He apologized for the inconvenience of the rate limiting.
In light of widespread use of Twitter data by AI software developers, Musk turned, “I guess we will use the public tweets — obviously not anything private — for training as well, just like basically all else has.”
Twitter’s data set appeals for “text training,” and “image and video training,” Musk said. However, he indicated that AI systems need more than human-created data and he was hoping that xAI could follow in the footsteps of Alphabet-owned DeepMind’s Alpha Zero, a computer program that realized a masterful level of play in three games, chess, shogi and go, after training by playing these games against itself.
A Tesla fan and promoter, Omar Qazi (known as Unscathed Mars Catalog on Twitter) asked Musk a few questions about how he plans for xAI to work with Tesla during the Times event. Among other things, he asked whether xAI would potentially use Nvidia- or Tesla-made silicon for data answer.
Musk said, “That’s sort of a Tesla question. Tesla is building custom silicon. I wouldn’t call anything that Tesla’s producing a ‘GPU’ although one can brand it in GPU equivalents.” He then spoke about Tesla’s in-vehicle hardware, which enables the company’s advanced driver help systems to work in its cars. The systems are marketed as Autopilot and Full Self Driving capability in the US.
Tesla has been auspicious fans a robotaxi, or self-driving vehicle, for years. At that time, Musk said a cross-country demo with a Tesla car whim be possible without a single human intervention by the end of 2017. In 2019, Tesla raised billions of dollars with the bond of a million robotaxi-ready Tesla vehicles on the road in a year. So far, none of Tesla’s vehicles are capable of operating without a individual driver ready to steer or brake at any time.
Musk said on Twitter Spaces on Friday that Tesla’s machinery 4, which is shipping in now, is “three-to-five times more capable than hardware 3,” and promised “hardware 5” would turn along in a few years and would be “four or five times more capable” than its current version.
The CEO also discussed Dojo, a supercomputer Tesla is reveal for AI machine learning and computer vision training purposes. Tesla uses video clips and data from its patrons’ vehicles to improve existing software, or develop new features.
Musk said that the eventual AI language model that xAI desire presumably develop won’t be “politically correct.” The CEO, who has repeatedly attacked “woke” or progressive values, said “I think our AI can give solutions that people may find controversial even though they are actually true.”
The Tesla CEO said that xAI require need to develop technology that “understands the physical world and not just the Internet,” and he thinks that Tesla’s excursion data will help it on that front.
Walter Isaacson, the author of an Elon Musk biography coming out later this year, beseeched Musk about Optimus, a humanoid robot Tesla is developing with the aim of using it in manufacturing. Musk said that the android is still in its “early stages” and his team needs to find a way that users will be able to easily turn it off.
Tesla divulged off a design for a humanoid robot called Optimus at its AI day in September 2022. Tesla executive are expected to share updates on this and more on an earnings collect next Wednesday.
— CNBC’s Jonathan Vanian contributed reporting.