Major technology firms joined forces in the group, with stated aims including cooperation on “best practices” for AI Major technology firms joined forces in the group, with stated aims including cooperation on “best practices” for AIA technology industry alliance devoted to making sure smart machines don’t turn against humanity said today that Apple has signed on and will have a seat on the board. Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, IBM, and Google-owned British AI firm DeepMind last year established the non-profit organization, called “Partnership on AI,” which will have its inaugural board meeting in San Francisco on February 3. SpaceX founder and Tesla chief executive Elon Musk in 2015 took part in creating nonprofit research company OpenAI devoted to developing artificial intelligence that will help people and not hurt them. Read: As regulators waver, Apple takes on Qualcomm in courtsMusk found himself in the middle of a technology world controversy by holding firm that AI could turn on humanity and be its ruin instead of a salvation. People joining tech company executives on the Partnership board included Dario Amodei of Open AI along with members of the American Civil Liberties Union; the MacArthur Foundation, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Source: Indian Express January 28, 2017 04:58 UTC