Introducing OpenAI

#1

Post by sama » Fri, Dec 11, 2015, 9:30 PM UTC

Introducing OpenAI
openai.com

Re: Introducing OpenAI

#2

Post by ajtulloch » Fri, Dec 11, 2015, 9:35 PM UTC

Congrats! It's a brilliant team, looking forward to great things.

Re: Introducing OpenAI

#3

Post by hacker_9 » Fri, Dec 11, 2015, 9:35 PM UTC

This is about 100 years too early. Seriously why do people think neural networks are the answer to AI? They are proven to be stupid outside of their training data. We have such a long way to go. This fear-mongering is pointless.

Re: Introducing OpenAI

#4

Post by rjvir » Fri, Dec 11, 2015, 9:35 PM UTC

> Sam, Greg, Elon, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infosys, and YC Research are donating to support OpenAI. In total, these funders have committed $1 billion

Funny how they just slipped that in at the end

Re: Introducing OpenAI

#5

Post by _sentient » Fri, Dec 11, 2015, 9:35 PM UTC

$1B in committed funding. Just, wow.

Side note: I wonder if the Strong AI argument can benefit from something akin to Pascal's Wager, in that the upside of being right is ~infinite with only a finite downside in the opposing case.

Re: Introducing OpenAI

#6

Post by negrit » Fri, Dec 11, 2015, 9:37 PM UTC

Disappointing to see Infosys associated to this initiative.

EDIT: looks like the infosys brigade is downvoting me to hell.

Re: Introducing OpenAI

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Post by ceejayoz » Fri, Dec 11, 2015, 9:41 PM UTC

hacker_9 wrote: post #3

This is about 100 years too early. Seriously why do people think neural networks are the answer to AI? They are proven to be stupid outside of their training data. We have such a long way to go. This fear-mongering is pointless.

The linked site says nothing about neural networks.

Re: Introducing OpenAI

#8

Post by azzafazza » Fri, Dec 11, 2015, 9:41 PM UTC

negrit wrote: post #6

Disappointing to see Infosys associated to this initiative. EDIT: looks like the infosys brigade is downvoting me to hell.

I seem to have missed a story here. A quick Google search turned up a letter on Quora, https://www.quora.com/Is-working-in-Infosys-as-bad-as-this-l..., is that what you are refering too?

Re: Introducing OpenAI

#9

Post by jcsnv » Fri, Dec 11, 2015, 9:41 PM UTC

rjvir wrote: post #4

> Sam, Greg, Elon, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infosys, and YC Research are donating to support OpenAI. In total, these funders have committed $1 billion Funny how they just slipped that in at the end

How so?

Re: Introducing OpenAI

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 11, 2015, 9:41 PM UTC

rjvir wrote: post #4

> Sam, Greg, Elon, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infosys, and YC Research are donating to support OpenAI. In total, these funders have committed $1 billion Funny how they just slipped that in at the end

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