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Elon Musk challenges Sam AltmanFebruary 28, 2023 |
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| | The billionaire would like to create an alternative to ChatGpt, Elon Musk challenges Sam Altman . As The Information reported , in recent weeks Elon Musk has turned to a team of researchers active in the artificial intelligence sector to create an alternative to OpenAI's ChatGpt. The Tesla and Twitter CEO reportedly recruited Igor Babuschkin, a researcher who recently left Alphabet's DeepMind AI unit. In an interview reported by Reuters , Babuschkin added that he has not officially joined Musk's initiative.
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According to the article in The Information , Musk and Babuschkin have been discussing putting together a team to advance AI research, but the project is still in its early stages, with no concrete plan for specific product development.
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Elon Musk, who co-founded OpenAI with Silicon Valley investor Sam Altman in 2015 as a non-profit startup, left the board in 2018 . The American billionaire recently chimed in by calling the chatbot “frighteningly interesting”.
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What is ChatGpt
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OpenAI's chatbot is an application software designed to imitate human conversations based on user requests, and can answer different types of questions by imitating the conversational style of humans .
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As Reuters reported in December, the company is now expecting a surge in business. In fact, the team would have communicated to investors that a turnover of 200 million dollars is expected in 2023 and 1 billion dollars by 2024 . A tool like ChatGpt could be used for digital marketing, online content creation or to answer questions addressed to companies' customer service and from these uses OpenAI could derive new profits. Also, as the OpenAI site reports, ChatGpt could be useful for programmers to debug code. |