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posted by CoolHand on Sunday December 13 2015, @12:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the looking-for-skynet dept.

Elon Musk, a businessman who has described artificial intelligence development as "summoning the demon", is among the backers of the newly launched non-profit OpenAI:

Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and other technology entrepreneurs are betting that talented researchers, provided enough freedom and money, can develop artificial intelligence systems as advanced as those being built by the sprawling teams at Google, Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp. Along the way, they'd like to save humanity from oblivion.

The pair are among the backers of OpenAI, a nonprofit company introduced Friday that will research novel artificial intelligence systems and share its findings. Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Motors Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and Sam Altman, president of the Y Combinator, will serve as co-chairman. The nonprofit has received financial backing from Musk, Thiel, co-founder of PayPal Holdings Inc. and Palantir Technologies Inc., Reid Hoffman and others as well as companies including Amazon Web Services and Infosys.

The group's backers have committed "significant" amounts of money to funding the project, Musk said in an interview. "Think of it as at least a billion."

Also at BBC, NYT, Fast Company, TechCrunch, and Hacker News (note the involvement of Sam Altman).

Here's the home page. From the about page:

We're hiring research engineers and scientists. We're looking for people who have excelled as part of a research group or technical team previously, but we're flexible on the details — great research comes from mixing a variety of backgrounds and viewpoints.

If you're interested in joining, get in touch at jobs@openai.com. Tell us about yourself, your background, previous work (individual or collaborative) you're proud of, and why OpenAI excites you. Please include any materials that can help us understand what you've done, whether its a resume, publication list, Github profile, or a list of features you've built on a product. A deep learning background is optional (especially if you have strong software engineering skills), but you should show us that you're excited about becoming an expert in the field.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 13 2015, @01:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 13 2015, @01:16AM (#275636)

    ...The fuck are you going on about?

  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 13 2015, @01:30AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 13 2015, @01:30AM (#275639)

    1. Didn't read the summary.
    2. Don't recognize a Google slogan.
    3. Refuse to understand the comparison.

    Congratulations, you're stupid enough to join the OpenAI team!