Microsoft Invests $1 Billion In AI Company Wanting To ‘Replicate Human Brain’

Microsoft has invested a whopping one billion dollars to OpenAI, a company looking to ‘replicate’ and even improve on the human brain and its cognitive abilities.

(Seriously, if this isn’t what sci-fi movies have been warning us about since the 1980s then I don’t know what the point of that genre even is. Someone needs to rewatch the movie I,Robot.)

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OpenAI, which is planning to mimic – and improve on – the workings of the human brain through computers.

Originally co-founded by Elon Musk back in 2016, Musk has since stepped away from the company and now warns that AI technology could pose more of a threat to humankind than nuclear weaponry.

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Unfortunately, OpenAI is still going ahead with the plan despite the warnings of movies, books, songs, games, plays, art and everything else on the topic, and with Microsoft’s investment now on the cards we might soon have artificial brains that are actually better than ours.

OpenAI has announced that Microsoft’s hefty investment will be going towards the creation of AGI – artificial general intelligence.

“The creation of AGI will be the most important technological development in human history, with the potential to shape the trajectory of humanity,” said the company’s CEO Sam Altman [via Independent].

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“Our mission is to ensure that AGI technology benefits all of humanity, and we’re working with Microsoft to build the supercomputing foundation on which we’ll build AGI.”

Maybe Microsoft wants to recreate Ninja but slightly improved. A Ninja 2.0, if you would.

In a blog post on the investment OpenAI CTO Greg Brockman writes: “An AGI working on a problem would be able to see connections across disciplines that no human could,

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“…We want AGI to work with people to solve currently intractable multi-disciplinary problems, including global challenges such as climate change, affordable and high-quality healthcare, and personalised education.”

Welcome to the end of the world (maybe).

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