AWARD YEAR
2017
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Balance Human & Artificial Intelligence
KEYWORDS
AI, digital intelligence
COUNTRY
United States of America
DESIGNED BY
The two co-chairs of the project are:
Elon Musk, Tesla Motors founder
Sam Altman, president of the startup accelerator Y Combinator
Other backers of the project include:
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder
Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder
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
WEBSITE
https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/
OpenAI
OpenAI is a research company that aims to carefully promote and develop open-source friendly AI
Elon Musk and Sam Altman worry that artificial intelligence will take over the world. So, the two entrepreneurs are creating a billion-dollar not-for-profit company that will maximize the power of AI—and then share it with anyone who wants it.
“OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our 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,” reads the announcement on the Open A.I. website. OpenAI is a research company 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.
