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# Artificial Intelligence Will Be Safe And Open If Elon Musk Can Help It

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_Published 2015-12-12. OpenAI is a nonprofit artificial intelligence research company backed by Elon Musk that wants to keep AI safe and open to the world._


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## Transcript

Pattern recognition. Artificial neural network Reinforcement learning, for example. Statistical inference and probabilistic machine learning. Nothing can unite a group of technologists quite like artificial intelligence, which is exactly Actually what's happening in the case of Open AI, a non- profit research company focusing on all things digital intelligence. Open Ai's mission to advance digital intelligence in a way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. The research company is backed by some big names in tech, some of whom are Tesla motors CEO Elon Musk PayPal co- founder Peter Thiel and LinkedIn co- founder Reid Hoffman all told the backers have committed $ 1 Billion to open AI's research efforts.

The company intends to research Artificial Intelligence out in the open. Studies, data and even patents from open AI will be shared with the world. But it's not just a free exchange of ideas the company hopes to foster. It also wants to make sure artificial intelligence remains safe. I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. I mean with artificial intelligence we are some. Hunting the demon. Elon Musk isn't shy about his AI hesitations and he's hardly the first, and certainly not the last, technologist to share their concerns. I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

Once humans develop artificial intelligence it would take off on its own And redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. As for OpenAI's thoughts on artificial intelligence, the company says " AI should be an extension of individual human wills and, in the spirit of liberty, as broadly and evenly distributed as is possible safely.

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