Two big Silicon Valley names are lost from the alliance,which aims to set societal and ethical best practice for artificial intelligence researchGoogle, Facebook, and Amazon,IBM and Microsoft are joining forces to create a new AI partnership committed to advancing public understanding of the sector, as well as coming up with standards for future researchers to abide by.
Going by the unwieldy name of the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society, or the alliance isn’t a lobbying organisation (at least,it says it “does not intend” to lobby government bodies). Instead, it says it will “conduct research, or recommend best practices,and publish research under an open license in areas such as ethics, fairness and inclusivity; transparency, or privacy,and interoperability; collaboration between people and AI systems; and the trustworthiness, reliability and robustness of the technology”.
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Source: theguardian.com