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KEY POINTS

  • Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and owner of Twitter, on Wednesday announced the debut of a new AI company, xAI, with the goal to "understand the true nature of the universe."
  • According to the company's website, Musk and his team will share more information in a live Twitter Spaces chat on Friday.
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

with the goal to "understand the true nature of the universe."

HAHAHAHAHAH

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does that even mean?

I don’t even think Elon knows.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

No, but he's going to waste a lot of money on it. And likely not his own money... But then again, he doesn't have the tech bro pull that he used to.

So the company might just quietly die as he refuses to fund it himself, and can't con others into giving him more money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They couldn't even come up with a plausible sounding lie for this one. His rocket company was to 'make humans a multi-planetary species' yet the Mars plans keep getting pushed back and they're doing satellite internet instead. And his car company was to 'help save the environment' but look at what his rocket company is doing without a single, solitary fuck for the environment.

Maybe it was all just about making stacks and stacks of money off of government subsidies? Nah; couldn't be. And I'm sure it's just a coincidence that every company he's been involved with that couldn't suck at government teats either fails or kicks him out for being an idiot.