It's a little bit like Rosie from "The Jetsons" -- Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company OpenAI is working to create a very capable robot that could help you around the house. The company's CTO Greg Brockman and co-chairs Elon Musk and Sam Altman published a blog post Monday announcing OpenAI's plans to develop what is basically a robot butler. "We're working to enable a physical robot (off-the-shelf; not manufactured by OpenAI) to perform basic housework," the post reads. "There are existing techniques for specific tasks, but we believe that learning algorithms can eventually be made reliable enough to create a general-purpose robot. More generally, robotics is a good testbed for many challenges in AI."

The robot revolution might not begin with a rogue defense system declaring war on humanity, as Terminator predicted. Instead, it might take place when a bunch of robots finally decide that they're tired of picking up our stinky socks. OpenAI, an open source artificial-intelligence non-profit with 1 billion in funding from Elon Musk and Amazon among others, has announced details of its biggest project to date. The group intends to lay the groundwork for the creation of a robot that will "perform basic housework" in households around the world. In other words, the group intends to create software that will enable the proliferation of robot housemaids. DON'T MISS: Next year's iPhone may feature a futuristic design that makes Jony Ive's dream a reality "We're working to enable a physical robot (off-the-shelf; not manufactured by OpenAI) to perform basic housework," Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, and Greg Brockton wrote in a post on the OpenAI blog.

If you're interested in working with artificial intelligence (A.I.) and machine-learning platforms, chances are good you've heard of OpenAI, the non-profit "artificial intelligence research company" funded by tech luminaries such as Tesla CEO Elon Musk and venture capitalist (and Gawker bestie) Peter Thiel. OpenAI has a unique mission: develop open-source A.I. software that's friendly to humanity (as opposed to SkyNet). Earlier this year, the organization launched OpenAI Gym, a toolkit for building reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms, which tech pros in the space may find useful as they build out their own A.I. projects. Now comes the next OpenAI initiative: a breakdown of "concrete problems in A.I. safety." OpenAI researchers, in conjunction with colleagues from Google Brain, have issued a paper that delineates how machine-learning systems can potentially go haywire.

High-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has his sights set on building robots that can do housework, have conversations and play games. In working on these different robotic abilities, Musk, the CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla Motors, said he hopes to advance the artificial intelligence algorithms that will be needed to create them. "A significant fraction of our research bandwidth is being spent on fundamental research," wrote Musk, along with Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman and Sam Altman, who also are working with OpenAI, an open-source A.I. research company, in a blog post Monday. "A significant fraction of our research bandwidth is being spent on fundamental research. We'll always be developing and testing new ideas... This is important -- our current ideas will not be enough to achieve our long-term goal."

The man has built vehicles and rockets. Up next is domestic robots. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, has initiated the startup OpenAI which will build robots meant to function inside the home environment. By creating a robot from scratch, the machine will be thoroughly tested which is a good thing in the long run. How a machine is able to perform ordinary activities is what is at stake here.

Chris Olah at Google Research has, in a blog post on Tuesday, spelled out the five big questions about how to develop smarter, safer artificial intelligence. The post came alongside a research paper Google released in collaboration with OpenAI, Stanford and Berkley called Concrete Problems in AI Safety. It's an attempt to move beyond abstract or hypothetical concerns around developing and using AI by providing researchers with specific questions to apply in real-world testing. "These are all forward thinking, long-term research questions -- minor issues today, but important to address for future systems," said Olah in the blog post. Google has made no secret about its commitment to AI and machine learning, even having its own dedicated research branch, Google DeepMind.

Those are some of the well-known goals and accomplishments of Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Now, add Rosie to the mix. You do remember Rosie the robot maid from "The Jetsons," right? OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company backed by Musk, has announced that one of its goals is to "enable" a household robot. The robot would be off the shelf and not built by OpenAI, but the goal is to help it perform basic housework, enabled by the technology the company is working on.

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.