Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, IBM, and Google-owned British AI firm DeepMind last year established the non-profit organisation, called "Partnership on AI," which will have its inaugural board meeting in San Francisco on Feb 3. Major technology firms joined forces in the group, with stated aims including cooperation on "best practices" for AI and using the technology "to benefit people and society." Creation of the group came amid concerns that new artificial intelligence efforts could spin out of control and endup being detrimental to society. SpaceX founder and Tesla chief executive Elon Musk in 2015 took part in creating nonprofit research companyOpenAI devoted to developing artificial intelligence that will help people and not hurt them. 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: The Star January 31, 2017 01:02 UTC