Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. "Free speech" was the battering ram that Elon Musk used to justify his pursuit of Twitter in 2022. He talked about the platform as the new digital town square. He said social media companies' moderation policies should be no more restrictive than national laws. "I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means," he wrote after agreeing to a 44 billion takeover. In the three years since making the deal, Musk has continued to cloak himself in the armor of a free speech warrior, out there fighting for the rest of us.

Yesterday afternoon, Elon Musk fired the latest shot in his feud with OpenAI: His new AI venture, xAI, now allows anyone to download and use the computer code for its flagship software. No fees, no restrictions, just Grok, a large language model that Musk has positioned against OpenAI's GPT-4, the model powering the most advanced version of ChatGPT. Sharing Grok's code is a thinly veiled provocation. Musk was one of OpenAI's original backers. He left in 2018 and recently sued for breach of contract, arguing that the start-up and its CEO, Sam Altman, have betrayed the organization's founding principles in pursuit of profit, transforming a utopian vision of technology that "benefits all of humanity" into yet another opaque corporation.

Elon Musk is wasting no time making extremely deep cuts at Twitter, calving off many teams doing essential work at the company in the process. News of layoffs swept the platform on Friday, showing that Twitter's billionaire owner is painting in broad strokes when it comes to trimming down the team by half. The same day that Musk complained about supposed activists impacting Twitter's ad revenue, he cut some departments outright -- actions that are sure to make advertisers all the more skittish about Musk's ability to steer a ship with a skeleton crew. As he's only owned the company for a single week, it's impossible to imagine that such sweeping layoffs won't lead to dysfunction at Twitter, from the content moderation policies sure to prove crucial for Tuesday's U.S. midterm elections to product teams keeping the platform humming. Former Twitter employees affected by the layoffs describe a chaotic situation with little official communication beyond abruptly receiving a termination letter or seeing their access to internal tools like Slack or databases suddenly revoked.

The robot named Optimus came out on stage at an event in Silicon Valley where it waved to the crowd and lifted its knees the tech giant said that Optimus was still in development but could be sold to people in a couple of years. The company's Engineers state that the mass-market Tesla Bots would be experimented with by operating some tasks in the car plants and that sounds reasonable to me the model was wheeled onto the stage during a yearly Tesla AI Day presentation the audience was shown a clip of the bot completing easy tasks such as carrying boxes watering plants and lifting metal bars. The controversial billionaire explained that the humanoids would be manufactured in mass at a price way lower than you expected at twenty thousand dollars and would be made available in five years or less musk talked about expecting abundance in the future the CEO added that is an essential change of civilization quite different from what we're used. I can't wait Financial reviewers and investors have been uh skeptical about Tesla turning to Robotics and I can relate they instead advised the company to concentrate on programs closer to the company's main business of electric vehicles however musk asserted that he wished to decipher one of the most difficult issues with AI how to develop Machinery that can replace a human being sounds weird I know. The attack Overlord who once gave caution about artificial intelligence becoming a danger to the human race explained that Tesla sought to make certain that the evolution to a civilization in which robots performed.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed his electric car company is working on its own artificial intelligence computer chips that he claims could be "the best in the world." At a private event in California on Thursday, Musk said Tesla engineer Jim Keller is working on artificial intelligence that will presumably be implemented in the company's self-driving car technology. "I wanted to make it clear that Tesla is serious about AI, both on the software and hardware fronts," Musk said, according to the technology news site The Register. "We are developing custom AI hardware chips… Jim is developing specialized AI hardware that we think will be the best in the world." Musk's comments followed reports from CNBC earlier this week that Tesla is working with chip maker AMD to develop its own self-driving hardware.

But there is something that really scares Musk: Artificial Intelligence, and the idea of software and machines taking over their human creators. He's been warning people about AI for years, and today called it the "biggest risk we face as a civilization" when he spoke at the National Governors Association Summer Meeting in Rhode Island. Musk then called on the government to proactively regulate artificial intelligence before things advance too far. "Until people see robots going down the street killing people, they don't know how to react because it seems so ethereal," he said. "AI is a rare case where I think we need to be proactive in regulation instead of reactive. Because I think by the time we are reactive in AI regulation, it's too late."

Most of today's artificial intelligence (AI) systems rely on machine learning algorithms that can predict specific outcomes by drawing on pre-established values, but now researchers from OpenAI, a company funded by no less than Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, who are trying to democratise AI for "human good" just discovered – literally – that a machine learning system they created to predict the next character in the text of reviews from Amazon evolved into an unsupervised learning system that could learn how to read sentiment. That's a pretty big deal, and it's also something that, at the moment, even the researchers themselves can't explain. "We were very surprised that our model learned an interpretable feature, and that simply predicting the next character in Amazon reviews resulted in discovering the concept of sentiment," said OpenAI in a blog. According to the post OpenAI's neural network was able to train itself and analyse sentiment accurately by classifying Amazon's reviews as either positive or negative – and it then generated follow on text that fit with the sentiment. The AI the team used was what's known as a multiplicative long short-term memory (LSTM) model that was trained for a month, processing 12,500 characters a second using Nvidia Pascal GPU's – which Nvidia's own CEO gifted to Elon Musk last year – with "4,096 units on a corpus of 82 million Amazon reviews to predict the next character in a chunk of text."

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, OpenAI's newest robot system should leave humanity blushing. Not only can it successfully replicate human behaviors, it can do so after just a single demonstration of the task. The research company co-founded and chaired by Elon Musk used two separate neural networks to develop its one-shot imitation learning system. The first, a vision network, analyzes an image from the robot's camera to determine the location of objects in reality (in OpenAI's video example, these objects are blocks of wood on a table). The network is able to do this despite never having seen the actual table or blocks before.

Most of today's artificial intelligence (AI) systems rely on machine learning algorithms that can predict specific outcomes by drawing on pre-established values, but now researchers from OpenAI, a company funded by no less than Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, who are trying to democratise AI for "human good" just discovered – literally – that a machine learning system they created to predict the next character in the text of reviews from Amazon evolved into an unsupervised learning system that could learn how to read sentiment. That's a pretty big deal, and it's also something that, at the moment, even the researchers themselves can't explain. "We were very surprised that our model learned an interpretable feature, and that simply predicting the next character in Amazon reviews resulted in discovering the concept of sentiment," said OpenAI in a blog. According to the post OpenAI's neural network was able to train itself and analyse sentiment accurately by classifying Amazon's reviews as either positive or negative – and it then generated follow on text that fit with the sentiment. The AI the team used was what's known as a multiplicative long short-term memory (LSTM) model that was trained for a month, processing 12,500 characters a second using Nvidia Pascal GPU's – which Nvidia's own CEO gifted to Elon Musk last year – with "4,096 units on a corpus of 82 million Amazon reviews to predict the next character in a chunk of text."