Microsoft is back to its winning ways. And with its surging profits, the company is looking for ways to marshal its enormous resources to keep up the momentum. Perhaps one of the most important recent deals is a $1 billion investment in OpenAI. The goal is to build a next-generation AI platform that is not only powerful but ethical and trustworthy.
Founded in 2015, OpenAI is one of the few companies — along with Google’s DeepMind — that is focused on AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), which is really the Holy Grail of the AI world. According to a blog post from the company:
“AGI will be a system capable of mastering a field of study to the world-expert level, and mastering more fields than any one human — like a tool which combines the skills of Curie, Turing, and Bach. An AGI working on a problem would be able to see connections across disciplines that no human could. We want AGI to work with people to solve currently intractable multi-disciplinary problems, including global challenges such as climate change, affordable and high-quality healthcare, and personalized education. We think its impact should be to give everyone economic freedom to pursue what they find most fulfilling, creating new opportunities for all of our lives that are unimaginable today.”
It’s a bold vision. But OpenAI has already made major advances in AI.
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Tom Taulli
Source: https://www.forbes.com
