Rebel AI group raises record cash after machine learning schism – Financial Times

A breakaway group of artificial intelligence researchers has raised a record first round of financing for a new start-up involved in general-purpose AI, marking the latest attempt to create an organisation to guarantee the safety of the era’s most powerful technology.
The group has split from OpenAI, an organisation founded with the backing of Elon Musk in 2015 to make sure that superintelligent AI systems do not one day run amok and harm their makers. The schism followed differences over the group’s…

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