What Microsoft's $1 Billion Investment in OpenAI Could Achieve? techsocialnetwork

This week's announcement of Microsoft's major investment in OpenAI sent hopeful waves throughout the growing industry. OpenAI, co-founded by Elon Musk and Y Combinator chairman Sam Altman in 2015, plans to use the billion-dollar investment to create machine learning that mimics the brain. The 100-employee company specializes in what's referred to as AGI, or Artificial General Intelligence, which may eventually replace or stand in for human behaviour. While the nine figure sum is a testament to tech's commitment in the AI race, it also comes at a time when larger philosophical questions on its development are still awaiting answers. "The announcement is quite significant within the AI industry, and it presents an ambitious goal to deliver on the promise of AGI," said Ben Lamm, CEO of Hypergiant, an Austin-based AI products and services company.