Amazon launched its own machine learning platform in 2015. Microsoft also created the Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit, which enabled the efficient distribution of machine learning problems across multiple computers.
Then more 3,000 AI and Robotics researchers, endorsed by Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak (among many others), signed an open letter warning of the danger of autonomous weapons which select and engage targets without human intervention.
In 2016 Google’s artificial intelligence algorithm beat a professional player at the Chinese board game Go, which is considered the world’s most complex board game and is many times harder than chess. The AlphaGo algorithm developed by Google DeepMind managed to win five games out of five in the Go competition.
Waymo started testing autonomous cars in the US in 2017 with backup drivers only at the back of the car. Later the same year they introduce completely autonomous taxis in the city of Phoenix.
In 2020, while the rest of the world was in the grips of the pandemic, open AI announced a ground-breaking natural language processing algorithm GPT-3 with a remarkable ability to generate human-like text when given a prompt. Today, GPT-3 is considered the largest and most advanced language model in the world, using 175 billion parameters and Microsoft Azure’s AI supercomputer for training.
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