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Since late last year, Elon Musk has been warning of the dangers of artificial intelligence while pushing ahead with research and development of artificial intelligence technology, planning to compete with OpenAI, which he helped create.

In December, Musk was furious at the progress of artificial intelligence and adamantly opposed it. He found a link between OpenAI and Twitter, the social media platform he runs. According to two people familiar with the matter, OpenAI gained access to Twitter tweet data for $2 million a year (CTOnews.com note: currently about 13.86 million yuan). But Musk decided OpenAI wasn't paying enough and cut off the link between OpenAI and Twitter's data.

Since then, Musk has stepped up his activities in the field of artificial intelligence and openly discussed the dangers of the technology. He is in discussions with Jimmy Ba, a researcher and professor at the University of Toronto, to form a new artificial intelligence company called X.AI, according to three people familiar with the matter. Musk also invited top AI researchers from Google's DeepMind to join Twitter, which he runs. At the same time, he has publicly stated that he wants to create a platform that can compete with ChatGPT and can generate a wide variety of content without restrictions.

Musk has a long and complicated history with AI, and he has conflicting views on the technology, sometimes believing AI can benefit humanity and sometimes believing it will destroy humanity. Musk recently launched his own AI project and signed an open letter last month calling for a six-month moratorium on AI technology development because of concerns it would "pose a serious risk to society."

Although Musk now opposes OpenAI and plans to compete with it, he personally helped create the nonprofit AI lab in 2015. Musk later said he was disillusioned with OpenAI because it was no longer a nonprofit and because the technology OpenAI was developing would be biased.

At the end of the day, Musk wanted to do it himself. According to people familiar with Musk, the 51-year-old billionaire has always thought his AI projects were better and safer than competitors.

Anthony Aguirre, a theoretical cosmologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and founder of the Future of Life Institute, said he agreed with Musk that artificial intelligence would be a critical tipping point with disastrous consequences if not managed properly. Aguirre's group launched an open letter calling for a moratorium on AI technology development. He added,"Like many people, Musk is thinking: What do we do? "

University of Toronto professor Jimmy Bazen has developed a mainstream algorithm for training AI systems, and Musk and he are still discussing how to develop AI, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Hannah Wong, a spokeswoman for OpenAI, said that while the company now generates profits for investors, it is still managed by a nonprofit and profits are capped.

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