The famous billionaire Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and also the owner of the social media platform Twitter, is on the agenda again. The reason why Musk came back to the agenda was a new tweet.
ALL CODES USED TO SUGGEST TWEET ARE OPEN
Musk pointed to March 31 in that tweet. The famous billionaire announced that Twitter will open source all code used to suggest tweets on March 31.
Here is the full post of Elon Musk:
“Twitter will open source all code used to suggest tweets on March 31”
Twitter will open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31st
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 17, 2023
Musk wrote the following sentences under this post:
Our “algorithm” is overly complex and internally poorly understood. People will discover a lot of stupid things, but we will not patch the issues as soon as they are found!
We’re developing a simplified approach to deliver more engaging tweets, but it’s still a work in progress. It will also be open source.
“WE HOPE TO EARN YOUR TRUST”
Providing code transparency will be incredibly embarrassing at first, but will lead to a rapid improvement in recommendation quality. Most importantly, we hope to earn your trust.”
Our “algorithm” is overly complex & not fully understood internally. People will discover many silly things , but we’ll patch issues as soon as they’re found!
We’re developing a simplified approach to serve more compelling tweets, but it’s still a work in progress. That’ll also… https://t.co/uxxJe3RT36
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 17, 2023