„OpenAI“ – Versionsunterschied

Business magnate Elon Musk, co-chair of OpenAI

OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research company, associated with business magnate Elon Musk, that aims to carefully promote and develop open-source friendly AI in such a way as to benefit, rather than harm, humanity as a whole. The organization aims to "freely collaborate" with other institutions and researchers by making its patents and research open to the public. The company is supported by over US$1 billion in commitments; however, only a tiny fraction of the $1 billion pledged is expected to be spent in the first few years. Many of the employees and board members are motivated by concerns about existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence.

Motives

Some scientists, such as Stephen Hawking, controversially believe that if advanced AI someday gains the ability to re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate, an unstoppable "intelligence explosion" could lead to human extinction. Business magnate Elon Musk characterizes AI as humanity's biggest existential threat. OpenAI's founders structured it as a non-profit free of financial stockholder obligations, so that they could focus its research on creating a positive long-term human impact.

Musk poses the question: "what is the best thing we can do to ensure the future is good? We could sit on the sidelines or we can encourage regulatory oversight, or we could participate with the right structure with people who care deeply about developing AI in a way that is safe and is beneficial to humanity." Musk acknowledges that "there is always some risk that in actually trying to advance (friendly) AI we may create the thing we are concerned about"; nonetheless, the best defense is "to empower as many people as possible to have AI. If everyone has AI powers, then there's not any one person or a small set of individuals who can have AI superpower."

OpenAI states that "it's hard to fathom how much human-level AI could benefit society," and that it's equally difficult to comprehend "how much it could damage society if built or used incorrectly". Research on safety cannot safely be postponed: "because of AI's surprising history, it's hard to predict when human-level AI might come within reach." OpenAI states that AI "should be an extension of individual human wills and, in the spirit of liberty, as broadly and evenly distributed as possible..." Co-chair Sam Altman expects the decades-long project to surpass human intelligence.

Vishal Sikka, the CEO of Infosys, stated that an "openness" where the endeavor would "produce results generally in the greater interest of humanity" was a fundamental requirement for his support, and that OpenAI "aligns very nicely with our long-held values" and their "endeavor to do purposeful work". Cade Metz of Wired suggests that corporations such as Amazon may be motivated by a desire to use open-source software and data to level the playing field against corporations like Google and Facebook that own enormous supplies of proprietary data. Altman states that Y Combinator companies will share their data with OpenAI.

Participants

The two co-chairs of the project are:

• Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk, whose 2015 assets are estimated at $13 billion
• Sam Altman, president of the startup accelerator Y Combinator

Other backers of the project include:

• LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, whose 2015 assets are estimated at $4 billion
• PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, whose 2015 assets are estimated at $3 billion
• Greg Brockman, former chief technology officer at Stripe
• Jessica Livingston, a founding partner of the startup accelerator Y Combinator
• Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud-services subsidiary
• Infosys, an Indian IT consulting firm

Notable staff

• Research director: Ilya Sutskever, a Google expert on machine learning
• CTO: Greg Brockman

The group will begin with seven researchers.

See also

• Machine Intelligence Research Institute
• Future of Humanity Institute
• Future of Life Institute

External links

• Vorlage:Official website
• Interviews
  • with chairs Musk and Altman
  • with employee Andrej Karpathy