Under the umbrella of his artificial-intelligence nonprofit, OpenAI, Musk is working with Sam Altman, the sneaker-loving president of Y Combinator, to create an "off-the-shelf" robot that will execute basic housework, according to a company blog post. Signed by two OpenAI executives in addition to Musk and Altman, the announcement outlines the nonprofit's mission to "build safe AI, and ensure AI's benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible." Once the team manages to build this robotic maid for the general population, it plans to up the intelligence of this robotic servant so it can hold conversations and problem-solve better than most humans. Let's hope the Three Laws of Robotics come pre-programmed.

The nonprofit group linked to Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley tech paragons wants to start with the basics -- household chores. Its No. 2 goal -- No. 1 being a decidedly more prosaic vow to measure its own progress in advancing artificial intelligence -- is to build a household robot, one to "perform basic housework," OpenAI said in a blog post this week. Sure, such a thing would be welcomed the world over. But what makes this future housemaid robot rank so highly among the group's ideas and experiments is that robotics in general is a "good testbed for many challenges in (artificial intelligence)," Open AI says. OpenAI dubs itself "a non-profit artificial intelligence research company" with the goal of advancing AI in ways most likely to benefit humanity, all the while uninhibited by the need to generate a profit.

Artificial intelligence nonprofit OpenAI, funded by some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, announced its major goals today, which include the creation of a "general purpose" robot and a natural language processing chatbot. "We're working to enable a physical robot (off-the-shelf; not manufactured by OpenAI) to perform basic housework," the nonprofit said in a blog post authored by OpenAI Research Director Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI CTO Greg Brockman, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk. An agent, a system able to respond to user input like a bot, will be built with "the ability to carry a conversation, the ability to fully understand a document, and the ability to follow complex instructions in natural language." Another intelligent agent will be made to win games. Finally, OpenAI plans to identify or create a metric to measure its progress.

Elon Musk's 1 billion artificial intelligence group wants to build a robot to clean people's houses. OpenAI – which is funded by the billionaire maker of reusable rockets and electric cars – hopes to build a domestic robot as a test of its research into how to build artificial intelligence that won't kill us. Building such a robot isn't just a way of getting rid of household chores, according to a blog entry posted by the nonprofit research group. It would also be a neat way of testing whether or not its work in artificial intelligence is progressing in the right way. Boston Dynamics describes itself as'building dynamic robots and software for human simulation'.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's 1bn non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research firm OpenAI has announced its major technological goals which include creating a household robot, a natural language processing chatbot and an intelligent agent capable of winning any game. Announced in a blog post on 20 June, the firm says "robotics is a good testbed for many challenges in AI". "OpenAI's mission is to build safe AI, and ensure AI's benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible," the company says in the blog post authored by Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk. "We're trying to build AI as part of a larger community, and we want to share our plans and capabilities along the way. We're also working to solidify our organisation's governance structure and will share our thoughts on that later this year."

A high-profile artificial intelligence research group backed by Elon Musk said it is developing a robot. OpenAI, which formed in December, said on Monday that it's working on creating an "off-the-shelf" robot that others can manufacture. The idea is to design a robot outside of a corporate umbrella as a way to speed innovation without a financial motive. OpenAI is backed by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in addition to other high-profile technology executives and entrepreneurs, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Sam Altman and Jessica Livingston from startup incubator Y Combinator, and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Artificial intelligence techniques like machine learning, in which algorithms detect patterns by sifting through enormous quantities of data and then act on the findings, have become popular in recent years with companies like Google and Facebook.

Elon Musk has built cars and rockets. OpenAI -- the artificial-intelligence research nonprofit cochaired by Tesla Motors CEO Musk and Y Combinator President Sam Altman -- wants to build a robot for your home.

Elon Musk has built cars and rockets. OpenAI -- the artificial intelligence research nonprofit co-chaired by Tesla Motors CEO Musk and Y Combinator President Sam Altman -- wants to build a robot for your home.

Elon Musk has built cars and rockets. OpenAI - the artificial-intelligence research nonprofit cochaired by Tesla Motors CEO Musk and Y Combinator President Sam Altman - wants to build a robot for your home. Building a robot, OpenAI's leadership explains in a blog entry on Monday, is a good way to test and refine a machine's ability to learn how to perform common tasks. By "build," the company means taking a current off-the-shelf robot and customizing it to do housework. "More generally, robotics is a good test bed for many challenges in AI," reads the blog entry.

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