- Reid Hoffman took a dig at Elon Musk over his stance on AI in a Milken Institute talk this week.
- Musk has signed a letter backing an AI development pause, but also wants to make a ChatGPT rival.
Elon Musk has some incongruous views on AI development, and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman pointed that out in a recent talk.
In a discussion at the $4 on Tuesday, Hoffman expressed his disagreement with an $4$4 It called for a six-month pause on developing AI systems stronger than GPT-4 until "we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable."
But Hoffman pointed out Musk's seemingly conflicting views: "And Elon — while signing that letter — is trying to hire a whole team and stand up an AI effort," Hoffman noted.
Musk told Fox News last month that he wanted to build a "maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe," which he $4 in an apparent riff on OpenAI's ChatGPT. Musk $4 alongside CEO $4 and others but stepped down from its board in 2018.
Insider's Kali Hays $4 last month that Musk is moving forward with an artificial intelligence project at Twitter. The Financial Times also recently $4 that Musk was $4 from Tesla and SpaceX investors for a planned AI startup.
Hoffman has addressed the open letter before. On CNBC's $4 last month, Hoffman said he disliked the idea of pressing pause on AI and $4 over his stance on AI development.
"I think some of it's a little bit less well-intentioned, like 'Everyone else slow down, so I can speed up,'' Hoffman said. "It's overall, I think, broadly a mistaken effort because actually I think everything we've seen so far in terms of development is the best ways to get safety is through larger scale models — they actually train to align better with human interests, and so the call to slow down is actually, in fact, less safe."
Hoffman continued: "Elon tends to have a 'I must build it with my own hands.' You look at what amazing stuff he's done with SpaceX and Tesla, and it has the kind of 'It's only great if I do it'" approach.
Musk did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.