The Verge has an article titled Microsoft is partnering with Elon Musk’s OpenAI to protect humanity’s best interests from evil AI. Nick Statt’s Verge sums this up as “OpenAI will get access to Microsoft’s latest virtual machine technology for running large-scale AI training and simulation exercises, while Microsoft will have cutting-edge research conducted on its Azure cloud platform.”
Statt highlights how this is two of the leaders in innovation teaming up with a focus on open source, but also how Microsoft is using this as a way to showcase the power and computational capacity of the Azure platform. There is a discussion of how this democratizes AI and makes it less evil. Statt sums it up as “the company (Microsoft) would very much like to have high-level AI research being conducted on Azure, to prove its efficacy and to attract other AI companies to do the same.
Here is the conversation with Microsoft and OpenAI.
https://youtu.be/J7_RDJtkBZ0
About me: Sean McClure is a former Senior Advisor at the White House. Sean is currently the Suspension and Debarment Advisor to the Department of the Treasury and with over 16 years of experience working at the White House, Department of the Treasury, USAID, and Department of State. He has traveled extensively to 35 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.
