The world's biggest tech giants go all in on AI

The biggest names in tech are teaming up to form a new organization dedicated to advancing the public's understanding of machine learning. The Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society (aka the Partnership on AI) is a non-profit whose members include Amazon, Google, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft. As its lengthier title suggests, the organization's mission statement is to "address opportunities and challenges with AI technologies." It aims to achieve this goal through research, which will be made available to the public, on topics related to AI such as ethics, privacy, transparency, the exchange of information between machine learning systems, and collaboration between people and AI. Additionally, the partnership plans to host discussions, conferences, and outreach with the public.