Elon Musk backs future AI initiative
As more and more companies like Facebook and Google race to develop their own flavor of AI (artificial intelligence), a new altruistic challenger has appeared. The OpenAI initiative is a new non-profit with financial support from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon Web Services, Sal Altman, Jessica Livingston and others. It’s goal is to work on AI without being beholden to the whims of a corporation or any single person. In fact, it encourages all research to be shared and will open all (if any) patents.
In addition to sharing its research with the world, OpenAI is also concerned with the ramifications of the emerging technology, “it’s hard to fathom how much human-level AI could benefit society, and it’s equally hard to imagine how much it could damage society if built or used incorrectly,” it states on its site.
The initiative’s team will include researcher and machine learning expert Ilya Sutskever and former Stripe CTO, Greg Brockman. It will be co-chaired by Elon Musk and Sam Altman with donations from Musk, Altman, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Livingston and others totaling $1 billion.
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Source: OpenAI
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