Editor’s Note: Soon after publishing, an astute reader pointed out that Musk cannot run for the U.S. Presidency because he’s not a natural-born U.S. citizen. So please bear that in mind as you read the rest of the article. Ooh boy, looks like the were true. rumors Despite decrying the dangers of AI and to pause the training of AI systems, Elon Musk has decided that he too wants a piece of the AI pie and made a not-so-surprising announcement that he'll be launching a competitor to -backed OpenAI's ChatGPT and 's Bard ( ). leading a call Microsoft Google lol Called 'TruthGPT', Musk's on generative AI will be a "maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe." Presumably, this will prevent TruthGPT from absolutely annihilating humans. spin While the announcement itself might not be a complete surprise (we just weeks ago that Musk was quietly recruiting people to form his own AI company), what caught attention was where Musk made that announcement: Fox News. reported our Yes, you read that right. Elon Musk was on Fox News, giving an interview to Tucker Carlson, and peddling his doomsday scenarios to the that tunes into the network for their dose of news. Now, in case you're not.. Uhm, aware of the intricacies of the media landscape, we'll just come out and spell it out for you: Fox News is just so heavily tilted towards the Republican party that you'd be forgiven for thinking that Republicans actually run the network. largely conservative base Even though Fox News keeps throwing shade at other media outlets, everyone knows that it pushes the Republican agenda hard, most recently during the Trump era when it amplified false claims that voting machines were manipulated to favor Democrat Joe Biden. Those claims landed Fox News in trouble, and the media network has agreed to over three quarters of a billion ($787.5 million) to the voting machine company that supposedly colluded with Democrats to make Biden win. pay But that's beside the point. Why was Musk even there? One possible explanation (and this might be a stretch for many a reader) is that he's ultimately going to run for president and wants to appeal to Fox News' core audience, who, as many know, are tired of "career politicians" and want an outsider to shake things up in Washington, D.C., as was the case with Donald Trump. We know in the past, but Musk's constant news coverage eerily resembles that of Donald Trump, particularly in the run-up to Trump's election as President of the United States. There is never a day when Musk isn't in the news, either as an individual or via the companies he owns: , SpaceX, . So, it's wholly possible that Musk is following the Trump playbook by being in the news so he could ultimately run for president. we've said this Twitter Tesla all the damn time What separates Musk from Trump, though, is that Musk's companies are successful by comparison and his wealth is verifiably in the billions. That said, Musk's announcement of launching his own AI raises even more questions about the timing of the open letter he asking for an immediate pause of at least 6 months in the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. Specifically, did Musk want a pause in AI development so he could work on building his own AI in the meantime? While six months might not necessarily be a long period of time, it could have been sufficient enough for Musk to finetune his vision of what his take on AI should look like (in this case 'TruthGPT'). signed just a while ago But what even is "truth"? Well, for the purposes of AI, it's whatever data it has been trained on. If the data is biased, . so will be the AI If Elon Musk thinks he can train his AI model on threads from 4chan or news from Infowars, for example, and present them as truth because they're so unfiltered and conform to a certain world view, the result is going to be more disinformation peddling as "truth" in an attempt to manipulate public opinion. In all fairness, Musk appears to be terrified of the idea of AI__ __ public opinion, but like all things Musk, will probably go and do the opposite of what he says. manipulating Ironically, when Trump was kicked off of major social media websites, the social media app he ended up creating for his followers also had the word "truth" in it: Truth Social. So the similarities between Musk and Trump are more than one. Nonetheless, only time will tell what Musk is aiming for. For now, he's interested in upending "Woke AI" and TruthGPT will be a step in that direction. It could also be a sign of what's to come, with more and more billionaires trying to . cash in on the AI gold rush Elon Musk's Tesla ranked #31 this week on HackerNoon's , while Twitter was not far behind at #33. Microsoft, which has heavily betted on OpenAI, was on the #62 spot, while Google surpassed them all on the #25 spot. Tech Company Rankings 👋 You’re reading of HackerNoon's Tech Company News Brief, a weekly collection of tech goodness that combines HackerNoon's proprietary data with internet trends to determine which companies are rising and falling in the public consciousness. goes live tomorrow. Hate waiting? No problemo! Just subscribe to receive the newsletter a day early in your inbox. part 1 Part 2 here complete In Other News.. 📰 HODL GANG ASSEMBLE! Britain's Standard Chartered believes bitcoin could touch a peak of by the end of 2024. 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