New Delhi: These are truly exciting times for Artificial Intelligence (AI) as Amazon, DeepMind/Google, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft come together to create a non-profit organization that will work to advance public understanding of AI technologies and formulate best practices on the challenges and opportunities within AI. The Partnership on AI will study the potential societal impact of AI systems, and develop and share best practices. For instance, IBM has Watson, Google acquired AI start-up DeepMind in 2014, Amazon has voice assistant Alexa, Microsoft has Cortana and a whole bunch of chatbot projects while Facebook uses AI extensively. The current representatives are Ralf Herbrich from Amazon, Mustafa Suleyman from DeepMind/Google, Yann LeCun from Facebook, Francesca Rossi from IBM, and Eric Horvitz from Microsoft. To do so in partnership with these companies who share our vision will help propel the entire field forward in a thoughtful responsible way,” said Yann LeCun, director of Facebook AI Research.

Source: Mint September 29, 2016 13:41 UTC