{"id":235,"date":"2015-12-27T12:24:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T10:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aireligion.org\/?p=235"},"modified":"2015-12-27T12:24:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T10:24:28","slug":"5-things-about-the-plan-of-open-source-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"5 Things About The Plan Of Open Source Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Arguably, the open source movement \u2014 the idea that a group of technologists freely contributing their own work and commenting on the work of others, can create a final product that is comparable with anything that a commercial enterprise might create \u2014 has been one of the great innovation catalysts of the technology industry.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no wonder, then, that a group of Silicon Valley luminaries \u2014 including Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman \u2014 have lined up to contribute $1 billion to a new open-source AI project known as OpenAI<\/a> that is led by Ilya Sutskever, one of the world\u2019s top experts in machine learning. If you can open-source software and hardware, then why not open-source artificial intelligence, right?
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\n1. What exactly are they going to do with that $1 billion?<\/strong><\/p>\n

For now, we don\u2019t really know. The OpenAI website is basically just a single blog post outlining the organization\u2019s manifesto<\/a> and an \u201cAbout\u201d page detailing all the technologists and engineers working on the project<\/a>. Thus far, we only have a long announcement from the founding members that they are going to do something amazing. Throw in some of the biggest tech names in the AI industry and the magic $1 billon number, though, and it\u2019s easy to see why it has a lot of buzz.<\/p>\n

The basic idea is that OpenAI, which will be structured as a nonprofit research company, will work on AI innovations that benefit humanity: \u201cOur goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.\u201d But even the founders admit that only a \u201ctiny fraction\u201d of the $1 billion is going to be spent in the next few years.<\/p>\n

2. Does OpenAI mark a change of heart by Elon Musk about the perils of AI?<\/strong><\/p>\n