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That was actually a quite nice overview for beginners. Also, I have no clue why your speaking style reminds me of hack the planet.

Right on cue, this past week heralded in an announcement of OpenAI, a new non-profit started by a number of tech luminaries to spearhead AI research that is publicly accessible. The motivation is that apparently these scions of capitalism lose faith in Adam Smith's invisible hand when it comes to AI R&D. Musk continues to promote the idea that AI will be humanity's largest existential threat. Challenging this view, the HBR asks if "OpenAI [is] Solving the Wrong Problem", pointing to the implied lack of trust in capitalism. This is similar to my own parry: that the biggest existential threat to humanity is humanity.

OpenAI Gym is a toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms. This is the gym open-source library, which gives you access to an ever-growing variety of environments. You can use it from Python code, and soon from other languages. If you're not sure where to start, we recommend beginning with the docs on our site. There are two basic concepts in reinforcement learning: the environment (namely, the outside world) and the agent (namely, the algorithm you are writing).

If you're interested in working with machine learning and artificial-intelligence algorithms--but unsure of how to start--check out the OpenAI Gym, now in beta. The premise behind OpenAI Gym is simple: it's a toolkit for building reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms, which govern bots' decision-making and motor-control capabilities. Reinforcement learning is a key element in A.I. development, as it allows software to deal with random, unpredictable environments; one "classic" problem involves balancing an untethered pole on a rolling cart: OpenAI is a non-profit "artificial intelligence research company" funded by some heavy hitters in the tech world, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and venture capitalist Peter Thiel. Its altruistic goal is to develop open-source A.I. software that's "friendly" to humanity. According to a blog posting accompanying the launch of OpenAI Gym, RL research is slowed by two factors: a need for better benchmarks, and a lack of standardization of environments used in publications.

OpenAI and Shocking AI Salaries This week, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, head of the famed incubator Y Combinator, announced the launch of the OpenAI project, which is a company that's building AI products and services and giving away their tech for free. Just after the announcement, OpenAI's team of researchers were reportedly mobbed with huge employment offers from some of the tech world's biggest firms. Microsoft's Vice President of Research said that the cost of a top artificial intelligence researcher has eclipsed the cost of a top quarterback prospect in the National Football League. CLICK TO TWEET THIS: The cost of a top artificial intelligence researcher has eclipsed the cost of a top quarterback prospect in the National Football League. Bill Gates' 2b Clean Energy Fund Recently, the MIT Technology Review sat down for a Q&A session with Bill Gates and they discussed the Breakthrough Energy Coalition.

The space and renewable energy tycoon has launched yet another pioneer non-profit project which can change the world of robotics today. Elon Musk developed a 1 billion-program "Robot Gym" to train artificial intelligence. He says he wanted the robots to be as versatile as humans when it comes to thinking. Our reinforcement learning toolkit, OpenAI Gym, is now in public beta: https://t.co/8fMRLjSJQb. Tesla's CEO, together with Sam Altman, created the artificial intelligence non-profit research company.

Sometimes I think Elon Musk may single-handedly be increasing the coolness quotient of the entire human race. I mean seriously, the man is running three companies poised to change the course of entire industries and he has time to take step back and think "alright, guess I'll save humanity while I'm at it too, I guess" Last week, OpenAI released OpenAI Gym, a toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms. Today, with the power or control to develop the next generation of AI technology clearly in the hands of an elite group of companies whose motives may be driven by corporate interests and financial gains, I see the motive behind Elon Musk and Sam Altman's OpenAI venture. It is an attempt to put checks and bounds in place to "save us from ourselves", so to speak. Let's step back from the world of artificial intelligence for a second and think about a biological process we all are familiar with -- evolution.

Elon Musk's OpenAI has created a'gym' to let developers train their AI systems on Atari games. The open source code, which is still in development, includes'environments' to create situations in which AI can learn. The environments include playing classic board games, controlling a robot in simulation and playing 59 Atari games like Asteroids, Air Raid, Pac-Man, Space Invaders and Pitfall. The hope is that the tasks will give OpenAI and others a way to rank and improve various AI approaches, and unveil new ways to teach machines to learn. OpenAI will also feature a leaderboard of the most successful systems.