OpenAI's Text Generator Is Going Commercial

Last spring, artificial intelligence research institute OpenAI said it had made software so good at generating text--including fake news articles--that it was too dangerous to release. That line in the sand was soon erased when two recent master's grads recreated the software and OpenAI released the original, saying awareness of the risks had grown and it hadn't seen evidence of misuse. Now the lab is back with a more powerful text generator and a new pitch: Pay us to put it to work in your business. Thursday, OpenAI launched a cloud service that a handful of companies are already using to improve search or provide feedback on answers to math problems. OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit in 2015 by Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley notables to ensure that future superhuman AI was a benign force.