Where Should Machines Go To Learn?

If we want to massively accelerate artificial intelligence and improve human lives, we need to democratize access to data. Past civilizations built grand libraries to organize the world's knowledge. These repositories of information focused on cataloging, aggregating, organizing and making information accessible so that others could focus on learning and creating new knowledge. AI and machine learning systems also need repositories of information from which to learn -- and right now everyone is building their own. If different groups of people focus on organizing data versus building AI, the progress of intelligent computers will massively accelerate.