14-12-2015 15:00 via theguardian.com

OpenAI won't benefit humanity without data-sharing

Artificial intelligence experts welcome the launch of the Elon Musk-backed venture, but open algorithms are only the first stepThere is a common misconception about what drives the digital-intelligence revolution. People seem to have the idea that artificial intelligence researchers are directly programming an intelligence; telling it what to do and how to react. There is also the belief that when we interact with this intelligence we are processed by an “algorithm” – one that
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