{"id":175536,"date":"2023-11-06T22:42:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T04:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/elon-musk-and-his-archrival-sam-altman-are-racing-to-create-a-superintelligent-a-i-to-save-humanity-from-extinction"},"modified":"2023-11-06T22:42:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T04:42:30","slug":"elon-musk-and-his-archrival-sam-altman-are-racing-to-create-a-superintelligent-a-i-to-save-humanity-from-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/elon-musk-and-his-archrival-sam-altman-are-racing-to-create-a-superintelligent-a-i-to-save-humanity-from-extinction","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk and his archrival Sam Altman are racing to create a superintelligent A.I. to save humanity from extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-and-his-archrival-sam-altman-are-racing-to-create-a-superintelligent-a-i-to-save-humanity-from-extinction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musk cofounded OpenAI\u2014the parent company of the viral chatbot ChatGPT\u2014in 2015 alongside Altman and others. But when Musk proposed that he take control of the startup to catch up with tech giants like <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/alphabet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" class=\"\">Google<\/a>, Altman and the other cofounders rejected the proposal. Musk walked away in February 2018 and changed his mind about a \u201cmassive planned donation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now Musk\u2019s new company, xAI, is on a mission to create an AGI, or artificial general intelligence, that can \u201cunderstand the universe,\u201d the billionaire said in a nearly two-hour-long Twitter Spaces talk on Friday. An AGI is a theoretical type of A.I. with human-like cognitive abilities and is expected to take at least another decade to develop.<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s new company debuted only days after OpenAI announced in a July 5 <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/blog\/introducing-superalignment#JanLeike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">blog post<\/a> that it was forming a team to create its own superintelligent A.I. Musk said xAI is \u201cdefinitely in competition\u201d with OpenAI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musk cofounded OpenAI\u2014the parent company of the viral chatbot ChatGPT\u2014in 2015 alongside Altman and others. But when Musk proposed that he take control of the startup to catch up with tech giants like Google, Altman and the other cofounders rejected the proposal. Musk walked away in February 2018 and changed his mind about a \u201cmassive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-existential-risks","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}