Currently, there’s competition about how has the best cloud between Google, IBM, Amazon, Oracle and Microsoft. It seems that those companies believe that a successful cloud platform is one that has API’s that can easily used for a wide variety of use cases.
I think this kind of AI research is equivalent with AGI research.
Facebooks internal AI research is broad enough that they pursued Go as a toy problem similar to how Deep Mind did so.
After DeepMind’s success, Tencent Holding didn’t take long to debut an engine that’s on par with professional players even through it isn’t yet on the AlphaGo level.
Apple has money lying around. It’s knows that Siri underperforms at the moment, so it makes total sense to invest money into long-term AI/AGI research. Strategically Apple doesn’t want to be in a situation where Google’s DeepMind/Google Brain initiatives continue to put it’s assistant well ahead of Apple’s performance.
Samsung wants Bixby to be a success and not be outperformed by competing assistants. Samsung also needs AI in a variety of other fields for military tech to internet of things applications.
Bridgewater Associates is working on it’s AI/human hybrid to replace Ray Dalio. Using humans as subroutines might mean that the result get’s dangerous much faster.
Palantir wants the money of the US military for doing various analysis tasks. Given that it’s a broad spectrum of tasks it pays to have quite AI general capabilities. The US military wants to buy AI.
While the CIA is now in the Amazon cloud, Palantir wants to stay competitive and don’t lose projects to Amazon and that requires it do to basic research.
Salesforce has the money and it will need to do a lot of AI to keep up with the times.
I think Baidu and Alibaba will face similar pressures as Google and Amazon. I think both need to invest into basic AI and the have the capability to do so.
Given the possible consequences of AGI for geopolitical power, I think it’s very likely that the Chinese Government has an AGI project.
Okay, you have a much broader definition of what’s AGI research, then. I usually interpret the term to only mean research that has making AGI as an explicit objective, especially since most researchers would (IME) disagree with “API’s that can easily used for a wide variety of use cases” being equivalent to AGI research.
Are you saying that all of those are working on AGI? That would be enormously surprising to me.
Currently, there’s competition about how has the best cloud between Google, IBM, Amazon, Oracle and Microsoft. It seems that those companies believe that a successful cloud platform is one that has API’s that can easily used for a wide variety of use cases.
I think this kind of AI research is equivalent with AGI research.
Facebooks internal AI research is broad enough that they pursued Go as a toy problem similar to how Deep Mind did so. After DeepMind’s success, Tencent Holding didn’t take long to debut an engine that’s on par with professional players even through it isn’t yet on the AlphaGo level.
Apple has money lying around. It’s knows that Siri underperforms at the moment, so it makes total sense to invest money into long-term AI/AGI research. Strategically Apple doesn’t want to be in a situation where Google’s DeepMind/Google Brain initiatives continue to put it’s assistant well ahead of Apple’s performance.
Samsung wants Bixby to be a success and not be outperformed by competing assistants. Samsung also needs AI in a variety of other fields for military tech to internet of things applications.
Bridgewater Associates is working on it’s AI/human hybrid to replace Ray Dalio. Using humans as subroutines might mean that the result get’s dangerous much faster.
Palantir wants the money of the US military for doing various analysis tasks. Given that it’s a broad spectrum of tasks it pays to have quite AI general capabilities. The US military wants to buy AI. While the CIA is now in the Amazon cloud, Palantir wants to stay competitive and don’t lose projects to Amazon and that requires it do to basic research.
Salesforce has the money and it will need to do a lot of AI to keep up with the times.
I think Baidu and Alibaba will face similar pressures as Google and Amazon. I think both need to invest into basic AI and the have the capability to do so.
Given the possible consequences of AGI for geopolitical power, I think it’s very likely that the Chinese Government has an AGI project.
Okay, you have a much broader definition of what’s AGI research, then. I usually interpret the term to only mean research that has making AGI as an explicit objective, especially since most researchers would (IME) disagree with “API’s that can easily used for a wide variety of use cases” being equivalent to AGI research.