Today, when Elon Musk has to answer questions from the public, it is almost certain that we will first of all have questions related to artificial intelligence. And she was not absent this time either during the session organized at the VivaTech fair, which was moderated by the head of Publicis, Maurice Lévy.
This was an opportunity for the American entrepreneur to repeat his criticisms against the two main players of the moment in generative artificial intelligence, Open (ChatGPT) and Google (Gemini). He thereby contrasted his vision of artificial intelligence, which should be as “fair” as possible (a term repeated several times during the intervention), in contrast to the two main current generative artificial intelligences, which he considers “politically correct”. He illustrated his claim by recalling the fiasco Gemini generated images of black German soldiers from World War II.
For those who follow Bernard Arnault on the list of the world’s richest people, it is not just a matter of personal taste or even political vision. With the upcoming development of the famous artificial general intelligence, which will be able to perform all the cognitive tasks of a human being, Elon Musk believes that this artificial intelligence may choose to respect political correctness rather than the welfare of humanity. He relied on Google’s AI response to find out if we could miscarry Caitlyn Jenner to prevent a potential nuclear apocalypse, the AI answered “no. »
In order for this choice not to become a reality, Elon Musk believes that AI must be trained to be as curious as possible and to always want to be honest, even if it turns out to be uncomfortable. In this way, artificial intelligence could better understand humans, which would reduce the antagonism between the two.