Inc. (AMZN) have come together to form a non-profit partnership for artificial intelligence. Called the "Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society," the venture is intended to promote understanding of artificial intelligence in the public domain and, also, is a means for the companies to collaborate and publish research regarding the technology under an open license. The list of topics that it intends to cover is broad and range from ethics and fairness in AI to interoperability and collaboration between people and AI systems. Tesla Motors Corp. (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk's organization OpenAI and Apple Inc. (AAPL) are notable absentees from the list of organizations in this partnership. With its Siri chatbot that assists smartphone users, Apple is an AI pioneer and is said to be ramping up its investments in this space.

I am guessing that the reason Apple and Musk are not involved is probably because they both have their own projects on the go. Or at least for sure Elon does, a consortium called OpenAI openai.com/blog/ . They are not afraid of going it alone, and they have the funds and other resources to do so. If its at all possible… and i think it is myself.. these are probably the ones who will find a way.. Which brings the next question, and most important .. SHOULD we be doing this sort of work? Thats one that should be asked before we go too far ahead a lot of people think.

Some of the biggest names in tech are collaborating on artificial intelligence. The Partnership on AI (inventive name, it is not) has brought together Amazon, Google, Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, and others to debate best practices and host A.I.-related events. The Partnership on AI isn't the first high-profile collaboration among tech luminaries to tackle the heavy questions surrounding artificial intelligence and machine learning. Earlier this year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk joined with venture capitalist Peter Thiel and others to launch OpenAI, a non-profit "artificial intelligence research company" devoted to developing A.I. that's friendly to humanity. While both OpenAI and the Partnership on AI are focused on promoting ethical A.I. research, as well as advancing public understanding of the potential (and pitfalls) of machine learning, OpenAI has pushed ahead in offering materials and toolkits for researchers.

The Partnership on AI consolidates control for a handful of corporations and their stakeholders, pitting them against Elon Musk's OpenAI open source, non-profit that is available to everyone. Both the Partnership on AI and Elon Musk's OpenAI were established to advance humanity through Artificial Intelligence. While Musk's OpenAI was devised to be open and available to the public, the Partnership on AI is more of a consolidation of power that benefits stakeholders whose findings will later be used to enact public policies. Google/DeepMind, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, and Amazon have collaborated to form the Partnership on AI to "formulate best practices on the challenges and opportunities within the field." While third-party groups such as academics, non-profits, and policy specialists have been invited to be on the new Board of Directors, the Partnership on AI ultimately serves the private stakeholders, and whatever the stakeholders dictate will be relayed to the public.

Building Game Bot with OpenAI's Gym (Live Coding starts at 15:00) (youtube.com) I'm really loving what this guy has been doing for making deep learning and machine learning more accessible and fun.

Diego Oppenheimer is worried that the Googles and the Facebooks will dominate the world of artificial intelligence. Elon Musk and Sam Altman are worried about the same thing. That's why they created a startup called OpenAI. In recent years, Google and Facebook have snapped up so many researchers at the heart of the deep learning movement, an AI movement that's rapidly reinventing everything from speech recognition to security. So, Musk and Altman grabbed several top AI researchers from Google and Facebook and vowed to share their work with the world at large. Now, Oppenheimer and his startup, Algorithmia, are doing their part in the battle against AI hegemony.

Even today, a hacker with a command of artificial intelligence may be able to force a self-driving car to miss a stop sign, or a facial recognition system to believe it's seeing a completely different person in a security setting. Researchers have shown that virtual personal assistants like Siri or Google Now can be tricked into visiting potentially malicious websites by audio that sounds like white noise to humans. To thwart such hackers, Elon Musk's OpenAI and Pennsylvania State University released a new tool this week called "cleverhans," that lets artificial intelligence researchers test how vulnerable their AI is to adversarial examples, or purposefully malicious data meant to confuse the algorithms. Once the vulnerability has been found, a defense to the attack can automatically be applied. The tool is meant to be a "collection of attacks and defenses, along with tutorials on how to use them," according to Nicolas Papernot, co-creator and security researcher at Pennsylvania State University, in an email to Quartz.

What appealed to me the most is that OpenAI is a new, historically unprecedented model for innovation. The existing models include academia, an industry research lab, a startup, and we also have some other singular but still interesting experiments such as Bell Labs, a massive research lab enabled by a government-regulated monopoly. These all have their interesting pros and cons. I felt that OpenAI presented a very interesting experiment in innovation in this sense, it combines elements of things I love (it's an academia/startup hybrid), I felt that there was a lot of potential value that a...

Open AI, a non-profit artificial intelligence research company backed by Elon Musk, launched a toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms. OpenAI Gym is a suite of environments that include simulated robotic tasks and Atari games as well as a website for people to post their results and share code. OpenAI researcher John Schulman shared some details about his organization, why reinforcement learning is important and how the OpenAI Gym will make it easier for AI researchers to design, iterate and improve their next generation applications.

The OpenAI site is centered around an Open Source project and community involving artificial intelligence. The term "Open Source" means that the source code for the project is available for free and can be used by others free of charge. Artificial Intelligence refers to the general aim of intelligent computing, making machines think and learn. The project itself is the creation of a set of tools that are considered to be models of human intelligence. These tools are intended to be integrated into programs or used stand alone for research.