With Sam Altman (CEO of YCombinator) talking so much about AI safety and risk over the last 2-3 months, I was so sure that he was working out a deal to fund MIRI. I wonder why they decided to create their own non-profit instead.
Although on second thought, they’re aiming for different goals. While MIRI is focused on safety once strong AI occurs, OpenAI is trying to actually speed up the research of strong AI.
It interesting that their project is called OpenAI while both Facebook and Google open sourced AI algorithms in the last month and a half.
Neither Google nor Facebook seems to be in the OpenAI list but Amazon Web Services does.
Infosys as the second largest Indian IT company is also an interesting part of the list of funders. There an article from yesterday about forming a new company strategy that involves relying heavily on AI.
I expect OpenAI to actually develop software in a way that MIRI doesn’t.
I was so sure that he was working out a deal to fund MIRI. I wonder why they decided to create their own non-profit instead.
In practice MIRI is more think-tank than research organization. AFAIK MIRI doesn’t even yet claim to have a clear research agenda that leads to practical safe AGI. Their research is more abstract/theoretical/pie in the sky and much harder to measure. Given that numerous AI safety think tanks already now exist, creating a new actual research org non-profit makes sense—it fills in an empty niche. Creating a fresh structure gives the organizers/founders more control and allows them to staff it with researchers they believe in.
With Sam Altman (CEO of YCombinator) talking so much about AI safety and risk over the last 2-3 months, I was so sure that he was working out a deal to fund MIRI. I wonder why they decided to create their own non-profit instead.
Although on second thought, they’re aiming for different goals. While MIRI is focused on safety once strong AI occurs, OpenAI is trying to actually speed up the research of strong AI.
Nate Soares says there will be some collaboration between OpenAI and MIRI:
https://intelligence.org/2015/12/11/openai-and-other-news/
It interesting that their project is called OpenAI while both Facebook and Google open sourced AI algorithms in the last month and a half.
Neither Google nor Facebook seems to be in the OpenAI list but Amazon Web Services does.
Infosys as the second largest Indian IT company is also an interesting part of the list of funders. There an article from yesterday about forming a new company strategy that involves relying heavily on AI.
I expect OpenAI to actually develop software in a way that MIRI doesn’t.
In practice MIRI is more think-tank than research organization. AFAIK MIRI doesn’t even yet claim to have a clear research agenda that leads to practical safe AGI. Their research is more abstract/theoretical/pie in the sky and much harder to measure. Given that numerous AI safety think tanks already now exist, creating a new actual research org non-profit makes sense—it fills in an empty niche. Creating a fresh structure gives the organizers/founders more control and allows them to staff it with researchers they believe in.