Musk’s decision to develop artificial intelligence functions in his own companies led to his break with OpenAI in 2018.
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Peter Thiel, co-founder of Paypal and SpaceX investor, holds a conference every year with the CEOs of the companies his Founders Fund supports. At the 2012 event, Musk met Demis Hassabis, a neuroscientist, video game developer and artificial intelligence researcher. In his modern London office is an original of Alan Turing’s groundbreaking 1950 paper, “Can a Machine Think?”, in which Turing proposed an “Imitation Game.” in which a human should compete against a ChatGPT-like machine. According to his thesis, if the answers of the two were indistinguishable, it would be justifiable to say that the machine can “think”.
Influenced by Turing’s argument, Hassabis and others founded the company DeepMind, whose goal was to develop computer-based neural networks that could achieve artificial intelligence. Or to put it another way, they wanted to develop machines that could learn to think like humans.
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