It may not spring to mind as the first place you would turn to develop the art of conversation, but an AI firm backed by Elon Musk is hoping Reddit will help it's machine learn to converse. The OpenAI project is using a supercomputer known as a DGX-1 for its experiment, feeding popular Reddit threads to the AI for analysis, in the hope it will one day hold a conversation itself. However, the project follows a similar idea from Microsoft – which has to pull its learning chatbot after it began posting racist and offensive messages after just hours. OpenAI will feed popular Reddit threads to algorithms that have a probabilistic understanding of dialogue with the hopes it will one day hold a conversation itself. By feeding Reddit threads to DGX-1, it will hopefully read and learn a range of conversations faster than any other system has done before it, as conversations are filled with natural human language and commonly used slang.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI just received a package that took 2 billion to develop: NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang just delivered the first DGX-1 supercomputer to the non-profit organization, which is dedicated 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." The "AI supercomputer in a box" is packed with 170 teraflops of computing power--that's equivalent to 250 conventional servers. NVIDIA says it's a very fitting match: "The world's leading non-profit artificial intelligence research team needs the world's fastest AI system." "I thought it was incredibly appropriate that the world's first supercomputer dedicated to artificial intelligence would go to the laboratory that was dedicated to open artificial intelligence," Huang added. The supercomputer will tackle the most difficult challenges facing the artificial intelligence industy…by reading through Reddit forums.

It may not spring to mind as the first place you would turn to develop the art of conversation, but an AI firm backed by Elon Musk is hoping Reddit will help it's machine learn to converse. The OpenAI project is using a supercomputer known as a DGX-1 for its experiment, feeding popular Reddit threads to the AI for analysis, in the hope it will one day hold a conversation itself. However, the project follows a similar idea from Microsoft - which has to pull its learning chatbot after it began posting racist and offensive messages after just hours. OpenAI will feed popular Reddit threads to algorithms that have a probabilistic understanding of dialogue with the hopes it will one day hold a conversation itself. By feeding Reddit threads to DGX-1, it will hopefully read and learn a range of conversations faster than any other system has done before it, as conversations are filled with natural human language and commonly used slang.

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OpenAI, a non-profit research company devoted to advancing artificial intelligence, has become one of the proud owners of a DGX-1, NVIDIA's so-called "supercomputer in a box," a server specifically designed for machine learning work. The system, which was hand-delivered to the company's headquarters in San Francisco by NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, will be used to run some of OpenAI's most computationally challenging applications. More generally, the DGX-1 will be used to support the company's mission, namely 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." The non-profit is being backed by Silicon Valley icons like Elon Musk and Peter Theil, and managed to attract more than a 1 billion worth of funding at the time it was founded in December 2015. The company only expects to spend a tiny fraction of that amount over the next few years.

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The DGX-1 is a 129,000, desktop-sized box with eight NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs, 7TB of SSD storage and two Xeon processors. That nets 170 teraflops of performance, equivalent to around 250 servers. Moreover, the parallel architecture is ideal for OpenAI's deep learning algorithms. NVIDIA said it cost around 2 billion to develop. OpenAI, founded to ensure that machines don't destroy us, will use the DGX-1's extra power to read the nearly 2 billion Reddit comments in months, rather than years.

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The world's leading non-profit artificial intelligence research team needs the world's fastest AI system. "I thought it was incredibly appropriate that the world's first supercomputer dedicated to artificial intelligence would go to the laboratory that was dedicated to open artificial intelligence," Huang said. OpenAI's researchers will put the first production DGX-1 -- packing 170 teraflops of computing power, equal to 250 conventional servers -- to work on artificial intelligence's toughest problems. OpenAI's team is working at the cutting-edge of a field that promises incredible advances. Imagine artificial personal assistants that can coordinate our digital lives and autonomous cars and robots that are accessible to everyone.

Is it possible that the secret to building machine intelligence lies in spending endless hours reading Reddit? That's one question a team of researchers at OpenAI, a nonprofit backed by several Silicon Valley luminaries, hopes to answer with a new kind of supercomputer developed by chipmaker Nvidia. The researchers are also training robots do the dishes through experimentation, and they are building algorithms capable of learning to play a wide variety of different computer games. The new machine, called a DGX-1, is optimized for the form of machine learning known as deep learning, which involves feeding data to a large network of crudely simulated neurons and has resulted in great strides in artificial intelligence in recent years. The DGX-1 will let AI researchers train deep-learning systems more quickly using more data.