Elon Musk Tells Tucker Carlson He’ll Launch ChatGPT Rival After Taking Credit for Original: ‘I Came Up With the Name’ (Video)

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transform Twitter into a super-app, Elon Musk now says he’s going to dive into the artificial intelligence chatbot arena to save the world from “political correctness.”Musk told Tucker Carlson on Monday that he plans to create his own chatbot, after taking credit for jumpstarting the development of ChatGPT, the hugely popular chatbot software from OpenAI.“I’m going to start something which I called TruthGPT, or a maximum truth seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe,” Musk told Tucker Carlson on Monday.Elsewhere in his “Tucker Carlson Tonight” interview, the embattled Twitter CEO boasted that he came up with the name “ChatGPT” as well as the concept and “had a number of dinners around the Bay Area with some of the leading figures in AI” through its development.Musk was one of a group of high profile early funders of OpenAI in 2015, and an original co-chair of the company behind ChatGPT that is working with Microsoft.

He told Carlson he recruited the initial team, in particular naming Ilya Sutskever, who is considered one of the co-founders of the company and who Musk said “was really quite fundamental to the success of OpenAI.”“I put a tremendous amount of effort into recruiting Ilya and he changed his mind a few times, and ultimately decided to go with OpenAI.

But if he had not gone with OpenAI, OpenAI would not have succeeded,” Musk said. “I really put a lot a lot of effort into creating this organization to serve as a counterweight to Google,” continued Musk, who stepped down in 2018 to focus on Tesla and SpaceX. “And then I kind of took my eye off the ball, I guess, and they are now closed source.