{"id":68679,"date":"2016-06-21T13:07:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T17:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/?p=68679"},"modified":"2016-06-21T13:20:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T17:20:12","slug":"elon-musk-wants-to-build-robots-that-do-chores-06-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/elon-musk-wants-to-build-robots-that-do-chores-06-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk wants to build robots that do chores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68680 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Elon-Musk-and-Chore-Fixing-Robots.jpg\" alt=\"Elon Musk and Chore Fixing Robots\" width=\"1689\" height=\"1267\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Elon-Musk-and-Chore-Fixing-Robots.jpg 1689w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Elon-Musk-and-Chore-Fixing-Robots-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Elon-Musk-and-Chore-Fixing-Robots-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Elon-Musk-and-Chore-Fixing-Robots-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Elon-Musk-and-Chore-Fixing-Robots-758x569.jpg 758w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1689px) 100vw, 1689px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1689px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1689\/1267;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk wants to build robots that can handle our daily chores.<\/p>\n<p>Musk on Tuesday announced alongside other leaders of non-profit artificial intelligence group Open AI jointly that they are &#8220;working to enable a physical robot &#8230; to perform basic housework.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that learning algorithms can eventually be made reliable enough to create a general-purpose robot,&#8221; the group said in the <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/blog\/openai-technical-goals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a>. Musk as well as Sam Altman, the president of<\/p>\n<p>The post was signed by Musk as well as Sam Altman, the president of venture firm Y Combinator, and two staff members at Open AI.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk is a co-founder of Paypal and the founder and President of SpaceX and Tesla.<\/p>\n<p>The hope is to build a chore-completing robot that can respond to verbal commands.\u00a0They also aim to have the robot ask for clarification if it doesn&#8217;t understand the request being made by its owner.<\/p>\n<p>Artificial Intelligence is a major speaking point for Musk. Both he and Altman have voiced their concerns that AI is\u00a0&#8220;our biggest existential threat&#8221; and Musk warned against &#8220;summoning the demon&#8221; through its development.<\/p>\n<p>Altman last fall said &#8220;I think AI will &#8230;most likely lead to the end of the world. But in the meantime,\u00a0there will be great companies created with serious machine learning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit group&#8217;s stated goal is to &#8220;advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk wants to build robots that can handle our daily chores. Musk on Tuesday announced alongside other leaders of non-profit artificial intelligence group Open AI jointly that they are &#8220;working to enable a physical robot &#8230; to perform basic housework.&#8221; &#8220;We believe that learning algorithms can eventually be made reliable enough to create a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":68680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7372],"tags":[9482,11310,6231,11311,11309],"class_list":{"0":"post-68679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-chore-robots","10":"tag-elon-musk","11":"tag-robotics","12":"tag-sam-altman"},"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68684,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68679\/revisions\/68684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}