Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft are joining forces to create a new AI partnership dedicated to advancing public understanding of the sector, as well as coming up with standards for future researchers to abide by. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Despite its work in artificial intelligence through products such as Siri, Apple is not included in the group. Photograph: AlamyEach of the five founding corporate members has strong AI research teams, some of which have become household names, such as IBM’s Watson and Amazon’s Alexa. We’re looking forward to non-profits being included as first-class members in the future.”It’s also not the first time DeepMind has promised a body aimed at supporting AI ethics. When the company was acquired by Google back in 2014, part of the acquisition deal saw Google promise to form an AI ethics board to ensure the new technology was not abused.

Source: The Guardian September 28, 2016 21:00 UTC