Elon Musk Creates New Artificial Intelligence Company X.ai

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-new-artificial-intelligence-business-x-ai-incorporates-in-nevada-962c7c2f

by tzm • 3 years ago

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andrewclunn• 3 years ago

Wait, didn't Elon JUST SAY that we needed to put a halt on AI development?

GravitasFailure• 3 years ago

No. He said you did. How else would he catch up?

ratg13• 3 years ago

Unfortunately the man has deluded himself into thinking he’s the savior of humanity.

He thinks AI is bad for humanity, but not if he controls it.

This is in the same vein that he thinks censorship is the worst thing ever unless he is the one doing the censoring.

It’s just sad that his ultimate goal for humanity is letting Grimes’ children live on a Mars space station while Earth is destroyed.

He constantly uses his grand plan as justification for why he should get to hoard obscene amounts of cash .. instead of paying taxes and contributing to the health of the society we currently live in.

world2vec• 3 years ago

His hypocrisy is staggering.

pjkundert4• 3 years ago

Just as it isn’t inconsistent that Ron Paul put in “earmarks” for his constituents, while simultaneously voting against them all — it isn’t inconsistent for Elon to say “slow down” while accelerating AI R&D.

Any company/nation hobbling their AI programs will be lethally impaired in defence & commerce.

version_five2• 3 years ago

https://archive.md/qzbbb

I'm interested to see what he does. From his public comments, he doesn't understand AI at all, but that's often helpful as a businessman, because you are not constrained by what the technology actually does.

pjkundert4• 3 years ago

The staggering pride of HNers never ceases to astonish me.

Doesn’t understand AI? While he

- deploys one of the highest capacity inference platforms on the planet

- deploys the most advanced AI self-driving platform

- lands rockets with automation that exceeds the capabilities of traditional control systems

He’s probably forgotten more practical AI expertise than anyone in this conversation is ever going to know…

tsuujin2• 3 years ago

People who work for him may well be experts. That doesn’t mean he knows anything at all about it himself.

Musk didn’t do any of the things you listed, companies he has ownership in did.

hackerlight• 3 years ago

While he

s/he/his companies/g

His public comments on AI have left me with the same impression. He probably doesn't understand the technical details of neural nets or statistics. His capabilities are elsewhere (rockets, business, etc).

Zigurd• 3 years ago

It isn't pride. It's morbid fascination. Twitter Elon reveals the real competency of that guy. He's Howard Hughes and Starship is a steel Spruce Goose. Starlink has about two orders of magnitude fewer subs than it needs to be sustainable. Etc. So much drama is going to unfold in public. Can't look away.

cma• 3 years ago

deploys the most advanced AI self-driving platform

Other companies are operating with no one in the driver seat.

jprd• 3 years ago

Sigh. I'm tired.

bellgrove• 3 years ago

Given his reputation, why would any software engineers want to work for one of his companies?

Elon Musk Creates New Artificial Intelligence Company X.ai

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