Elon Musk is working on an artificial intelligence project for Twitter

Elon Musk is investing in artificial intelligence (AI) inside Twitter, according to an Insider article Tuesday, as the billionaire signed a plea last month to pause the search for the next generation of AI.

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According to unnamed Insider sources, the CEO recently purchased about 10,000 graphics processors, and the Twitter AI project is said to include a language model.

These models, trained from large amounts of data, are able to generate all kinds of scripts and answer user questions via interfaces such as ChatGPT (OpenAI) or Bard (Google).

According to Insider, Elon Musk, who has laid off thousands of Twitter employees since he bought the platform in October, has hired AI specialists.

The article mentions hiring Igor Babushkin and Manuel Kroes, both of whom went through DeepMind, the AI ​​subsidiary of Alphabet (Google’s parent company).

The specialized site The Information had already reported at the end of February that the head of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter was trying to put together a team to compete with OpenAI, which had created a buzz since last year with the success of ChatGPT.

Asked by AFP, Igor Babushkin did not immediately reply and the press’s Twitter address automatically sent a typical poop expression.

From Microsoft to Snapchat, all the tech giants and many startups are investing in generative AI.

But the high-speed adoption and advancement of this technology also raises many concerns, especially when Sam Altman, head of OpenAI, talks about the imminent advent of so-called “general” artificial intelligence, when software will be “smarter than people.” Generally.

At the end of March, hundreds of academics, presidents, and personalities, including Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple), and Imad Mostaque (head of Stability AI), called for a six-month pause in the search for AI. More powerful than GPT-4, OpenAI’s latest language model.

They raise various risks related to this technology, asking in these terms: “Is it advisable to develop non-human souls that could eventually surpass us in number and intelligence and take our place?”.

Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, before leaving the company in 2018. The California startup has been funded primarily by Microsoft since 2019.

Since then, he has criticized the company, saying in particular in a tweet last December that it is training artificial intelligence to “wake up” (a term referring to a fringe of the American left), that is, to “lie.”