Microsoft · OpenAI
Microsoft commits in and pairs with OpenAI to support us building beneficial AGI
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Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI to support them building artificial general intelligence (AGI) with widely distributed economic benefits.
Key facts
- Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI to support them building artificial general intelligence (AGI) with widely distributed economic benefits
- Each year since 2012, the world has seen a new step function advance in AI capabilities
- OpenAI team and their families at their July 2019 offsite
- They're partnering to develop a hardware and software platform within Microsoft Azure which will scale to AGI
Summary
Each year since 2012, the world has seen a new step function advance in AI capabilities. In contrast, an AGI will be a system capable of mastering a field of study to the world-expert level, and mastering more fields than any one human—like a tool which combines the skills of Curie, Turing, and Bach. OpenAI is producing a sequence of increasingly powerful AI technologies, which requires a lot of capital for computational power. The team believe that the creation of beneficial AGI will be the most important technological development in human history, with the potential to shape the trajectory of humanity.