(Boursier.com) – Elon Musk, who co-founded the OpenAI firm behind the conversational robot ChatGPT, delivered an unflattering analysis today on Twitter. “OpenAI was created as an open source (that’s why I named it ‘Open’ AI), a not-for-profit company to act as a counterweight to Googlebut it has now become a closed-source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft“Not at all what I wanted,” Musk said sadly. “What we need is TruthGPT,” added the multi-billionaire boss of You’re here and SpaceX. The businessman also tweeted a ‘meme’ implying that ChatGPT would replace mainstream media as the “captain of propaganda”.
As America’s tech giants battle for dominance in artificial intelligence, Redmond’s software giant Microsoft indeed seems to have taken a few steps ahead following its investment of several billion in OpenAI, at the origin of ChatGPT, which has just crossed 100 million users in a record time of two months. Microsoft device and search manager Yusef Mehdi, discussing the company’s use of ChatGPT in its search engine, Bing, made no secret of his satisfaction just recently, saying the integration would open “a new era” for search engines. Microsoft announced last week its desire to revamp its Bing search engine and Edge web browser with artificial intelligence. Enough to thrill its rivals, in particular Google, which is now trying to accelerate its plans in the face of the ChatGPT threat…
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