Billionaire Elon Musk, sole owner of Twitter, wants to enter the race for Artificial intelligence (IA) and is hiring computer engineers to develop a “chatbot” (chat driven by a robot) to compete with the successful ChatGPT.
The web portal The Information, which cites three sources, ensures that Musk intends his chatbot to be less “woke”, that is, with mLess content restrictions on controversial issues due to political, racial or sexual sensitivities.
For this end, has hired Igor Babuschkin, an engineer who has just left Alphabet’s AI unit called Deep Mind and that he is specialized in the development of learning guidelines for machines capable of making chat more sophisticated and credible.
Musk has not confirmed those plans, but on his Twitter account he published a meme in which he refers to the matter.
Political correctness ‘woke’ trend has Elon Musk obsessedwhich frequently accuses the traditional media – newspapers and television networks – of having succumbed to speech restrictions and censoring “free speech”.
Musk was one of the co-founders of OpenAI, the company that developed ChatGPT, But he left the firm in 2018 to avoid potential conflicts of interest since Tesla, the electric vehicle company he runs, was also working on artificial intelligence.