Elon Musk on Wednesday announced the formation of a new company focused on artificial intelligence, after months of teasing plans to build a rival to ChatGPT.

The company, called x.AI, unveiled a website and a team of a dozen staffers. The new company will be led by Musk, according to the website, and “will work closely with X (Twitter), Tesla, and other companies to make progress towards our mission.”

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      You’re thinking of the tunnel-digging company that bilks investors. This is the one that uses AI to bilk investors.

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    In an interview with then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson in April, Musk said teased plans for his new AI venture. “We’re going to start something which I call TruthGPT,” he said, describing it as a “maximum truth-seeking AI” that “cares about understanding the universe.”

    Sigh. When did this guy turn into a clown?

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    How many companies can one person effectively run at a time? Doesn’t Musk also have smaller companies like Boring and Solar City to manage, on top of giants like Tesla and SpaceX?

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      The only way he runs anything is into the ground. The companies run better the less he is involved.

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        I’m not a fan of musk but I have to say he gets a lot of things done. He promises really big stuff and does not deliver half of those but it’s still something.

        When he decides to build a tesla factory it gets done in reasonable time. We need people like him in charge of public infrastructure projects, especially in Germany.

        The rest of him is shit though

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          He was born rich and mostly tanks whatever he runs. All of his infrastructure idea like the tesla tunnels / ineffective smoke inhalation death traps are just worse and less effective versions of existing technology.

          His electric trucks are a bad idea, the tunnels are a bad idea, his electric dock is equally bad, etc.

          His incentives are to rip you off. Not transport of.

          While we’re at it, teslas are of course terrible cars.

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    Given the fuss he made about OpenAI being closed source (a case of broken clocks), it will be interesting to see if this is open source (doubt)

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    If he was funding it and putting someone that knows what they are doing in charge, that would be one thing.
    This is gonna go so bad.