From the OpenAI blog/manifesto on Friday:īecause of AI’s surprising history, it’s hard to predict when human-level AI might come within reach. While, the work is often shared via research papers, it is ultimately guided by commercial interests.Īpparently, the creators of OpenAI are concerned by the practice. It also includes Altman and Musk as the company’s co-chairs.Ĭurrently, much of artificial intelligence research takes place within companies like Google (GOOG), Facebook (FB), Microsoft (MSFT), Baidu and at universities that are closely affiliated with commercial interests. Other members of the group are a who’s who in artificial intelligence. Greg Brockman, former chief technology officers for digital payments processor Stripe, will serve in the same role for the non-profit. OpenAI’s research director is Ilya Sutskever, a former Google research scientist. The company expects to spend only a tiny fraction of the $1 billion donated over the next few years, according to its announcement.

Corporate backers include Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services, and Infosys. The new company, OpenAI, is backed by donations from tech luminaries including Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and CEO of SpaceX LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman PayPal co-founder and investor Peter Thiel and Sam Altman and Jessica Livingston from the startup accelerator YCombinator. Any advances will be made publicly available to help to spur innovation in the field. The effort, announced Friday, is designed “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,” said a blog post by the non-profit research company.

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