I for one welcome our new AI Overloards

[Tom]

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/

ONE BILLION in funding to a non profit AI research group. ONE BILLION.

[Mr. Analog]

THE INSTITUTE!

[Darren Dirt]

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/

ONE BILLION in funding to a non profit AI research group. ONE BILLION.

The group's other founding members are world-class research engineers and scientists: Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba. Pieter Abbeel, Yoshua Bengio, Alan Kay, Sergey Levine, and Vishal Sikka are advisors to the group. OpenAI's co-chairs are Sam Altman and Elon Musk.

Sam, Greg, Elon, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infosys, and YC Research are donating to support OpenAI. In total, these funders have committed $1 billion, although we expect to only spend a tiny fraction of this in the next few years.

Elon and a few others -- wow, that's some powerful people investing in this project... but to what end?

To?

What?

End?