Microsoft shakes hand with OpenAI to pursue AGI

Many setups in the San Francisco Bay Area boast that they are planning to change the world. However, OpenAI founded by Elon Musk has made a bigger promise than the rest: It wants to build artificial general intelligence (AGI), an AI system that like humans, can reason across many different domains and apply its skills to unfamiliar problems. For this reason, it announced a billion-dollar partnership with Microsoft to fund its work. This hints that AGI research is leaving the field of science fiction and entering the territory of serious research. "We believe that the creation of AGI will be the most important tech development in human history, with the potential to chaneg and shape the trajectory of humanity," Greg Brockman, chief technology officer (CTO) of OpenAI, informed the press.