Elon Musk, the co-founder of OpenAI, says he tried to make it 'next big thing from Google' after differing with Larry Page over AI safety

Image credit : CNBC After differing with Larry Page on AI safety, Elon Musk, who cofounded OpenAI, said he wanted to make it "the furthest thing from Google."

"The reason OpenAI exists at all is that Larry Page and I used to be close friends and I would stay at his house in Palo Alto, and I would talk to him late into the night about AI safety," Musk told Tucker Carlson in part one of a two-part interview that aired Monday. "And at least my perception was that Larry was not taking AI safety seriously enough."

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Musk added: "He wanted sort of digital superintelligence, basically digital God if you will, as soon as possible."

Google's approach to AI, according to Musk, has "great potential for good, but there's also potential for bad."

The present AI weapons race can be attributed to a disagreement between Elon Musk and Larry Page. Regarding the best way to safeguard people and prevent us from being supplanted by highly clever AI, Musk claimed he disagreed with Page. "Then he called me a specist," Musk said, referring to a term that means valuing one type of life form — like humans — over another, like animals or, in theory, superintelligent AI. "So I was like, 'Okay, that's it, yes I'm a specist, you got me,'" adding that the jab "was the last straw." Around that time, in 2014, DeepMind had been bought by Google along with "about three-quarters of all the AI talent in the world," according to Musk, along with "a tremendous amount of money and more computers than anyone else." [caption id="attachment_116017" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Image credit : InfoQ[/caption] Delhi: Start earning a potential second income with your money. His recently developed personal conflict with Page served as the impetus for the creation of a rival.

"I thought, the furthest thing from Google would be like a non-profit that is fully open because Google was closed, for-profit," Musk told Carlson. "So that's why the 'open' in OpenAI refers to open source, transparency so people know what's going on."

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Musk cofounded OpenAI in 2015, but he quit the organization's board three years later and has since turned outspokenly criticized it. Additionally, the Tesla CEO revealed in the interview that he intends to create an AI he has named TruthGPT, which he described as "a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe." Insider's request for comment was not immediately answered by Musk's or Google's representatives.