Elon's AI Master Plan: AGI

Elon Musk has his share of supporters, At the same time, he has his critics. While many blast him for missteps, the results, over time, speak for themselves.

The latest bullseye on his chest is Twitter. Much of the online world is vocal how he is destroying the social media platform.

Of course, as I stated on a number of occasions, anyone who believes that Elon seeks a top notch social media platform is not paying attention. The merging of social media and finance is taking place, something that Musk is driving, at least in the Web 2.0 world.

As of the latest announcement, Twitter, or X, has transfer licenses from 7 states in the U.S. This is quickly moving him out of the social media realm. It is likely there are applications in for the other 43.

That said, it is all small potatoes compared to the potential that he is playing with. Musk is likely to lap the field again without most realizing.

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Artificial Intelligence

Musk is sitting on a goldmine when it comes to artificial intelligence. More specifically, since the training of neural networks is so dependent upon data, the leader in this field might well be Elon.

Another fact that I pointed to after his purchase of Twitter was the fact that he now has one of the largest social media databases there is. There are well over 1 trillion tweets, providing the networks with basically anything humanity can conjure up.

This, however, is just a drop in the bucket. Tesla is also strong in this field although in a different manner. One of the reasons its autonomous driving technology is believed to be surpassing everyone else is because it is trained by video.

Here is where Tesla excels. According to Time, the company similarly suck up an estimated 160 billion camera image frames per day.

It provides the foundation for what Musk might do next.

Merging To Create AGI

The quest is AGI, or artificial general intelligence. This still causes great debate among AI researchers. Many believe this will never be accomplished while other feel we are getting close.

Whatever the situation, companies like Musk have are working in this direction. The autonomous driving software could well be used to train robots since the video training is showing the system real world images. This is how it learns to interact within the different environments.

Here is where it can get real interesting.

Walter Isaacson of Time Magazine wrote a biography about Musk.

In it he claims that Musk could be looking at taking his different companies and merging them together. This would be driven by the AI component.

AI, in one form or another, is already a critical complement in the products of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, (Musk’s brain-computer interface company), and really of his other projects. Though these companies mostly operate independently of one another, the Time story claims Musk envisions eventually tying all of them together, along with his recently formed xAI startup with the ultimate goal of creating a powerful, general artificial intelligence. A combination of text data sucked up from Twitter users and real-world images captured by Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system, the story claims, means Musk could try to create both ChatGPT-style AI chatbots and physical robots capable of navigating the real world.

It is no secret that Musk is not a fan of the direction that OpenAI took. This was a non-profit that he started a number of years ago which ended up essentially being taken over by Microsoft.

All of this makes a great deal of sense. Musk has stated that he is no longer interested in cryptocurrency and that artificial intelligence is what holds his interest. Certainly, he could be trolling people which is in line with his online activity.

However, we cannot dismiss the advancement in AI that his companies are making. Tesla is even building the most powerful AI supercomputer called Dojo. It is being designed with AI chips, making it ideal for neural networks.

Could This Happen?

While all this might sound like an easy plan. there are a lot of hurdles to overcome.

To start, each of these separate companies has their own investors. Tesla is public while the rest are private. Nevertheless, there are people who invested money so it is not as if all entities could be simply folded together.

Another issue is that, all would either have to be private or public. If they are merged into Tesla, this would be a public entity. That is something Musk has disliked in the past. He took Twitter private and started xAI that way too. Of course, he could somehow raise the money to take Tesla private but, with its market capitalization, that is looking unrealistic.

A more likely scenario is that each company is open to the other with payments taking place among them. Tesla and SpaceX engineers are known to be able to float between the two entities. When this happens, an accounting of the time has to be done with compensation moving from one company to the other.

It is a way for each entity to keep their intellectual property while properly accounting for the payments. Ultimately, it might be a breakeven from a profit/loss standpoint as the expenses could even out. There might be a gain in one quarter with a loss the following (on these transactions).

Big Vision

There is little doubt Musk has a big vision.

Converting the world to sustainable energy seemed absurd when he made that claim. While the progress was slow, certainly it was Tesla that got the automotive industry to start the move toward electric vehicles.

United Launch Alliance was basically a monopoly before SpaceX. It was charging the government and private businesses more than $150 million per launch. SpaceX reduced this by over 75% and was able to develop reusable rockets.

A couple years ago he came up with the idea of the Tesla Bot. Here is where the company started to target labor. If we think the automobile or energy industries are large, it is nothing compared to labor. The idea of disruption the blue collar workforce (to a greater degree than it already is) can be a radical notion. However, a couple years later, this doesn't seem like so far off.

The concepts outlines in this article might move this closer to a reality. By leveraging the AI technology from these different companies, suddenly Musk might be sitting on the most powerful AI system in the world.

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