{"id":20146,"date":"2015-12-21T02:46:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T10:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/inside-openai-will-transparency-protect-us-from-artificial-intelligence-run-amok"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:17:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:17:22","slug":"inside-openai-will-transparency-protect-us-from-artificial-intelligence-run-amok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/inside-openai-will-transparency-protect-us-from-artificial-intelligence-run-amok","title":{"rendered":"Inside OpenAI: Will Transparency Protect Us From Artificial Intelligence Run Amok?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inside-openai-will-transparency-protect-us-from-artificial-intelligence-run-amok2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last Friday at the Neural Information and Processing Systems conference in Montreal, Canada, a team of artificial intelligence luminaries announced OpenAI, a non-profit company set to change the world of machine learning.<\/p>\n<p>Backed by Tesla and Space X\u2019s Elon Musk and Y Combinator\u2019s Sam Altman, OpenAI has a hefty budget and even heftier goals. With a billion dollars in initial funding, OpenAI eschews the need for financial gains, allowing it to place itself on sky-high moral grounds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81163 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inside-openai-will-transparency-protect-us-from-artificial-intelligence-run-amok.jpg\" alt=\"artificial-general-intelligence\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"\/><\/a>By not having to answer to industry or academia, OpenAI hopes to focus not just on developing digital intelligence, but also guide research along an ethical route that, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/blog\/introducing-openai\/\">their inaugural blog post<\/a>, \u201cbenefits humanity as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/12\/20\/inside-openai-will-transparency-protect-us-from-artificial-intelligence-run-amok\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday at the Neural Information and Processing Systems conference in Montreal, Canada, a team of artificial intelligence luminaries announced OpenAI, a non-profit company set to change the world of machine learning. Backed by Tesla and Space X\u2019s Elon Musk and Y Combinator\u2019s Sam Altman, OpenAI has a hefty budget and even heftier goals. With [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,30,45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-ethics","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68980,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146\/revisions\/68980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}