OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory founded in December 2015 with the mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. It was established by a group of leading researchers in machine learning and other related fields, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Wojciech Zaremba and John Schulman.
The primary focus of OpenAI is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole rather than just being beneficial to certain individuals or groups. Their current goals include developing technologies which can help prevent large-scale misuse of AI systems and promoting responsible use of AI through collaboration between governments and industries worldwide.
In order to achieve their goals OpenAI has developed various tools such as their own deep reinforcement learning system called Gym for testing agents based on game playing algorithms; Universe for training agents on real world tasks; Bayes Optimization for tuning hyperparameters; and many others. They have also released several open source projects such as TensorFlow and PyTorch which are popular frameworks used for creating deep learning models.
OpenAI’s team includes some of the best minds in artificial intelligence from both academia and industry who are committed to advancing AGI technology while keeping it safe from potential misuse by malicious actors. The organization itself receives donations from tech giants such as Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) among many others who believe in its mission and want to support its advancement towards achieving human-level AI capabilities without any risk associated with them falling into wrong hands or being misused against mankind’s interests..
