about it. those questions are significant enough that we wanted to find someone who could provide a definitive answer. elon musk seemed like the right person. musk has been thinking about ai and worrying about it for most of his life. nearly a decade ago he help founded a non-profit research project called open ai. the pint was in the name. if we re going to have artificial intelligence, and apparently we are, it ought to be open, open to the willed world. that would help inner ensure it s used for good and not evil. that was the idea. as the years passed and musk town himself preoccupied building a couple of enormous companies, open ai gay gotway from him. as of tonight, open ai is nut open. it s not a non-profit research project dedicated to artificial intelligence to serve humatin, it is in fact backed by micro microsoft and control to some extent by the democratic party. elon musk thinks that s a problem. in fact, he thinks it s threat to human civilization. mount tantamo
if you look at the, say, like, what has been the product development over time with twitter, mayy maybe years versus product improvement, and it s a pretty flat line. vern what are they doing? it took a year to @ an edit button that it took a year to add an edit button that doesn t work half the time. it s a comedy session here. we re not making cars. it s very difficult to make cars or to make rockets to orbit. so, you know, the real question is how did it get so absurdly overstaffed? this is insane. so, anyway, that s, it s clearly working. in pack, i think it s working better than ever. we ve increased the responsiveness of the system by in some cases 80p. we re trying to make twitter the
recommended? likes i get a feel, like what accounts are making comments? where are the comments eriely similar, and then you look at the account and it s obviously a fake photo and it s just obviously a bot cluster over and over again. i started to get more and more uneasy about the twitter situation. yn started to feel like something s something feels wrong about the platform. it seemed to be just drifting in a, i couldn t place it exactly. just, i had a, it felt like it was drifting in a bad direction. so then i was like, my conversations with the board and management seemed to confirm my intuition about that. basically, these guys do fought care about fixing twitter and i had a bad feeling about where it was headed based on the conversations i had with them.
have difficult choices to make in the presidential elections. it s not i would prefer, frankly, that we put someone, just a normal person, as president, a normal person with common sense and whose values are smack in the middle of the country. you know, just center of the normal distribution and i think that they would be great. i think we have, mayy being president not that much fun, to be totally frank. public doesn t trust big fews organizations anymore because they re so obviously 5thy and dishonest. they don t trust social media companies because as you just heard facebook is working for the democratic party. we asked elon musk how he s going to make twitter a place that people can plus and how he s going to do that after firing 80% of his staff. that next.
you know i ll try acquiring it and see if acquiring it is possible. now, i didn t have enough cash to acquire it so i would need support from others, from some of the existing investors, i also would need like a lot of debt so it wasn t clear to me whether it would succeed but i thought i would try. and, uh, ultimately it did succeed. anyway, here we are. when you got there, and all of a sudden you own it and all the data on the servers belong to you. it belongs to the people in my view, but yes. but you can see what they ve been doing. yes. and you can see who sworking there. you were shocked to find out that various intel agenciens were affecting its operations? uh, the degree to which various government agencies had effectively had full access to everything that was getting on in twitter blew my mind. i was not aware of that. would that include people s dm s.