Elon Musk's new AI startup is as ambitious as it is doomed
Public perception of AI capabilities does not match the laws of physics.
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Almost nothing is known about Elon Musk's latest venture, an artificial intelligence startup named xAI. But "almost nothing" is still something. And we can glean a lot from the little we know.
As Cointelegraph recently reported, Musk announced xAI on July 12 in a three-sentence statement: "Today we announce the formation of xAI. The purpose of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. You can meet the team and ask us questions during a Twitter Spaces chat on Friday, July 14."
Based on this information, we can deduce that xAI exists, it is doomed, and more information about its failure will be revealed on Twitter. The reason he is doomed is simple: the laws of physics prevent him from doing so.
According to a Reuters report, Musk's motivation for xAI is based on a desire to develop safe artificial intelligence (AI). During a recent Twitter Spaces event, he said:
"If he tried to understand the true nature of the universe, that's actually the best thing I can find from an AI security perspective."
It's a laudable goal, but any attempt to understand the "true" nature of the universe is doomed to failure because there is no ground truth knowledge center somewhere where we can check our theories.
It's not that humans aren't smart enough to understand the nature of the universe - the problem is that the universe is really, really big, and we're stuck inside it.
>Heisenberg's uncertainty principle tells us unequivocally that certain aspects of reality cannot be simultaneously confirmed by observation or measurement. This is the reason why we cannot simply measure the distance between Earth and Uranus, wait a year, measure it again and determine the exact distance.
Public perception of AI capabilities does not match the laws of physics.
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Almost nothing is known about Elon Musk's latest venture, an artificial intelligence startup named xAI. But "almost nothing" is still something. And we can glean a lot from the little we know.
As Cointelegraph recently reported, Musk announced xAI on July 12 in a three-sentence statement: "Today we announce the formation of xAI. The purpose of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. You can meet the team and ask us questions during a Twitter Spaces chat on Friday, July 14."
Based on this information, we can deduce that xAI exists, it is doomed, and more information about its failure will be revealed on Twitter. The reason he is doomed is simple: the laws of physics prevent him from doing so.
According to a Reuters report, Musk's motivation for xAI is based on a desire to develop safe artificial intelligence (AI). During a recent Twitter Spaces event, he said:
"If he tried to understand the true nature of the universe, that's actually the best thing I can find from an AI security perspective."
It's a laudable goal, but any attempt to understand the "true" nature of the universe is doomed to failure because there is no ground truth knowledge center somewhere where we can check our theories.
It's not that humans aren't smart enough to understand the nature of the universe - the problem is that the universe is really, really big, and we're stuck inside it.
>Heisenberg's uncertainty principle tells us unequivocally that certain aspects of reality cannot be simultaneously confirmed by observation or measurement. This is the reason why we cannot simply measure the distance between Earth and Uranus, wait a year, measure it again and determine the exact distance.
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