Musk, other tech chiefs back artificial intelligence startup with $1 billion

SAN FRANCISCO/BENGALURU (Reuters) - Some of the most prominent executives in the technology industry, including Tesla Motors Inc CEO Elon Musk, are backing a non-profit artificial intelligence research company with funding of $1 billion. The effort announced on Friday, known as OpenAI, joins a number of other initiatives by prominent companies like Google, Apple and IBM to tap advanced computer technology to solve problems such as recognizing faces or translating languages. Predicting that human