Elon Musk, Amazon Web Services co-finance AI researchDecember 12, 2015 - 12:17 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Several technology luminaries are announced Friday, December 11, that they have committed $1 billion to fund a new nonprofit artificial intelligence research company called OpenAI, VentureBeat reports. Y Combinator president Sam Altman, former Stripe chief technology officer Greg Brockman, Tesla and SpaceX cofounder Elon Musk, LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, Y Combinator founding partner Jessica Livingston, venture capitalist Peter Thiel, public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services, consulting company Infosys, and the recently launched YC Research lab are putting up the financial backing, according to a blog post. “Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact. We believe AI should be an extension of individual human wills and, in the spirit of liberty, as broadly and evenly distributed as is possible safely,” the OpenAI team wrote in the blog post. The launch is coming in the middle of a debate on the potential positive and negative impacts of artificial intelligence in society. Musk, Altman, Bill Gates, and other technology figureheads have weighed in on the subject as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and other companies build up their AI technologies and talent pools. Google research scientist Ilya Sutskever will be OpenAI’s research director. Brockman will serve as its chief technology officer. Stanford Ph.D. student and two-time former Google intern Andrej Karpathy is on board. AI luminary Yoshua Bengio is an advisor in the effort. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Iran’s Red Crescent sends aid to Armenia’s flood-hit regions The Iranian Red Crescent Society has sent humanitarian aid to the victims of deadly floods that hit northern Armenia on May 25-26. Putin congratulates Pashinyan’s birthday Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on his birthday on June 1. Opposition motorcade en route to Gyumri for large rally A motorcade of protesters headed by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan is heading to the city of Gyumri. Ruling MPs, Foreign Minister talk Armenia-Azerbaijan processes MOs from the ruling Civil Contract party met with the Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan in the Armenian parliament. |