Breaking Down Problems with A.I. Safety - Dice Insights

If you're interested in working with artificial intelligence (A.I.) and machine-learning platforms, chances are good you've heard of OpenAI, the non-profit "artificial intelligence research company" funded by tech luminaries such as Tesla CEO Elon Musk and venture capitalist (and Gawker bestie) Peter Thiel. OpenAI has a unique mission: develop open-source A.I. software that's friendly to humanity (as opposed to SkyNet). Earlier this year, the organization launched OpenAI Gym, a toolkit for building reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms, which tech pros in the space may find useful as they build out their own A.I. projects. Now comes the next OpenAI initiative: a breakdown of "concrete problems in A.I. safety." OpenAI researchers, in conjunction with colleagues from Google Brain, have issued a paper that delineates how machine-learning systems can potentially go haywire.