The AI company Elon Musk co-founded intends to create machines with real intelligence

When Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI its goal was to determine how AI technologies could best serve humanity. According to a new company charter, its mission going forward will be developing "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work." It wants to make machines smarter than people. It's called artificial general intelligence (AGI) and, depending on who you ask, it's either the Holy Grail or Pandora's Box when it comes to machine learning. Despite the fact that Musk recently distanced himself from the company -- stating Tesla's development of AI presented a conflict of interests for him – it still has his sense of ambition.