Understanding Reality: A Job for MuskAI

July 12, 2023

Note: This essay is the work of a real and still-alive dinobaby. No smart software involved, just a dumb humanoid

I read “Elon Musk Launches His Own xAI Biz to Understand Reality.” Upon reading this article, I was immediately perturbed. The name of the company should be MuskAI (pronounced mus-key like the lovable muskox (Ovibos moschatus). This imposing and aromatic animal can tip the scales at up to 900 pounds. Take that to the cage match and watch the opposition wilt or at least scrunch up its nose.

I also wanted to interpret the xAI as AIX. IBM, discharger of dinobabies, could find that amusing. (What happens when AIX memory is corrupted? Answer: Aches in the posterior. Snort snort.)

Finally, my thoughts coalesced around the name Elon-AI, illustrated below by the affable MidJourney:

Bummer. Elon AI is the name of a “coin.” And the proper name Elonai means “a person who has the potential to attain spiritual enlightenment.” A natural!

The article reports:

Elon Musk is founding of his own AI company with some lofty ambitions. According to the billionaire, his xAI venture is being formed “to understand reality.” Those hoping to get a better explanation than Musk’s brief tweet by visiting xAI’s website won’t find much to help them understand what the company actually plans to do there, either. “The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe,” xAI said of itself…

I have a number of questions. Let me ask one:

Will Elon AI go after the Zuck AI?

And another:

Will the two AIs power an unmanned fighter jet, each loaded with live ordnance?

And the must-ask:

Will the AIs attempt to kill one another?

The mano-a-mano fight in Las Vegas (maybe in the weird LED appliqued in itsy bitsy LEDs) is less interesting to me than watching two warbirds from the Dayton Air Museum gear up and dog fight.

Imagine a YouTube video, then some TikToks, and finally a Netflix original released to the few remaining old-fashioned theaters.

That’s entertainment. Sigh. I mean xAI.

Stephen E Arnold, July 12, 2023

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under AI, Business strategy, News

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