Billionaire Elon Musk has announced plans to launch an artificial intelligence (AI) platform named "TruthGPT".

 

The platform will rival the offerings from Microsoft and Google, said a Reuters report.

 

He criticised Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the firm behind chatbot sensation ChatGPT, of "training the AI to lie" and said OpenAI has now become a "closed source", "for-profit" organisation "closely allied with Microsoft".

 

"I'm going to start something which I call 'TruthGPT', or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe," Musk said in an interview with Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson aired on Monday.

 

He said TruthGPT "might be the best path to safety" that would be "unlikely to annihilate humans".

 

The move came after Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives called for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI's newly launched GPT-4, citing potential risks to society.

 

Musk also reiterated his warnings, saying "AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production".