Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI

Re:Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI by omarhaneef on Monday July 22, 2019 @10:59AM (#20498586)

Not taking a side on the over/under for AGI, but perhaps you are also acquainted with this little gem:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/38e6/1d9a65aa483ad0fb4a219f...

Shannon, Minsky, and McCarthy!

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Re:Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI by wyldfire on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:38AM (#20498999)

It's an interesting dream team. But AFAICT this is only a proposal. Did the proposed series of studies take place? If so what was the outcome?

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Re:Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI by why_only_15 on Monday July 22, 2019 @12:00PM (#20499294)

I think the result was this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop

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Re:Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI by omarhaneef on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:50AM (#20499137)

I wonder if they were the dream team back then or just promising young researchers.

I think the interesting take away is that they (seem to have) expected to solve the major problems of AI (language, common sense etc) over a summer with a small stipend.

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