SUMMARY
- Musk unveils a strategic partnership between his new AI startup, xAI, and Tesla to augment both silicon technology and AI software.
- Twitter's vast data pool will be harnessed for training xAI's AI systems, ensuring privacy by using only public tweets.
- The endgame for xAI is to mirror the autonomous learning success of Alphabet's DeepMind’s Alpha Zero.
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Elon Musk, the prominent face of Tesla, announced his ambitious plans last Friday, revealing an unexpected collaboration between his new artificial intelligence (AI) startup, xAI, and the car manufacturing giant. Musk aims to boost Tesla's technological prowess by bringing xAI on board to enhance both the silicon technology and the AI software domains.
During an engaging Twitter Spaces audio session, Musk dropped a bombshell, stating that he plans to leverage Twitter data for training AI systems at xAI. However, he remained elusive on the potential costs involved for extracting this data from Twitter, a company he acquired in October 2022 and has since been grappling with multiple challenges, including soaring debt and waning subscription revenue.
Musk has made it a norm to interlink his constellation of companies - Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Co., and now xAI, fostering a symbiotic ecosystem that benefits each venture. This synergy has been widely publicized in Tesla's financial filings and dealings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
In a contentious claim, Musk alleged that all AI organizations worldwide have been using Twitter's data for training purposes, in all cases illicitly, though no evidence was provided. He explained recent data rate limiting on Twitter as a response to rampant data scraping, which brought the platform to its knees.
Musk acknowledged the extensive use of Twitter data by AI developers, and plans to follow suit by using public tweets for xAI's AI training, safeguarding user privacy in the process. Furthermore, he hopes to emulate the success of Alphabet's DeepMind’s Alpha Zero, which demonstrated mastery in several games by training against itself.
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