Jul 23, 2019 13:00:00

Microsoft invested more than 100 billion yen in OpenAI for the development of general purpose artificial intelligence (AGI)

Microsoft signed a multi-year contract to build a new supercomputing technology in collaboration with NPO Open AI, which conducts research on artificial intelligence (AI), and has invested $ 1 billion (approximately ¥ 100.0 billion) I announced to do.

Open AI forms exclusive computing partnership with Microsoft to build new Azure AI super computing technologies-Stories

https://news.microsoft.com/2019/07/22/openai-forms-exclusive-computing-partnership-with-microsoft-to-build-new-azure-ai-supercomputing-technologies/

Microsoft invests in and partners with OpenAI to support us

https://openai.com/blog/microsoft/

Billion From Microsoft, an AI Lab Wants to Mimic the Brain-The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/technology/open-ai-microsoft.html

'OpenAI' is a non-profit organization (NPO) engaged in research related to artificial intelligence, which was born in 2015. It is Mr. Eron Mask of Tesla, Lead Hoffman of LinkedIn, and Mr. Sam Altman of entrepreneur / investor , Peter Thiel and others.

According to OpenAI, AI has been in different fields since 2012: 'visual' 'simple video games' 'machine translation' 'complex board games' 'speech synthesis' 'image generation' 'robot control' 'sentence creation' Various tasks have been achieved through increased computational power and innovative applications of deep neural networks.

Open AI's 'Glow' that AI makes it easy to change facial expressions, compose two faces, etc.-GIGAZINE

OpenAI's artificial intelligence 'OpenAI Five' defeats the human world king, and a campaign that anyone can fight against OpenAI Five online will be held for a limited time-GIGAZINE

Robotic arm 'Dactyl' to show too much dexterous motion like human hand-GIGAZINE

The problem is considered too dangerous by the development team because an automatic text creation tool by AI easily creates text with too high precision-GIGAZINE

However, when building an AI system, manual engineering work is required for each task.

What is expected as a solution to this problem is 'general-purpose artificial intelligence (AGI)' that can master many fields at a specialist level rather than a single human being. OpenAI will develop an AGI-enabled hardware and software platform in Microsoft Azure and aim to realize AGI.

'The development of AGI is the most important technological development in human history, and it has the power to shape the trajectory of humanity,' said Sam Altman, OpenAI. 'Our mission is that AGI technology will benefit the whole humanity. In order to ensure that, we will work with Microsoft to build a “supercomputing infrastructure for building AGI.” We will ensure that AGI is deployed safely and securely, and that economic benefits will be widely disseminated. Is extremely important, and I am excited to share this vision with Microsoft deeply. ”

'Also, AI is one of the most innovative technologies of the modern day,' said Satya Nadela, Microsoft, 'and it has the potential to help solve many of the pressing issues in the world today.' 'OpenAI By combining groundbreaking technology with the new Azure AI supercomputing technology, our hope is that AI safety will always be at the center and everyone will benefit. ' You are