OpenAI, the opensource, non-profit artificial intelligence research firm founded by Elon Musk, has outlined some of its future goals, which include building both a household robot and an ultra-smart AI agent.

“OpenAI’s mission is to build safe AI, and ensure AI’s benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible,” OpenAI said in a blog post attributed to Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, SAM Altman, and Elon Musk. “We’re trying to build AI as part of a larger community, and we want to share our plans and capabilities along the way. We’re also working to solidify our organization’s governance structure and will share our thoughts on that later this year.”

Regarding the robot, OpenAI said that it believes that it is now possible to develop algorithms that can be used to create a general-purpose robot capable of performing multiple tasks around the home. As for why the firm wants to develop a robot in the first place, the team said that “robotics is a good testbed for many challenges in AI.”

OpenAI also wants to create an AI agent that can parse complicated instructions and perform the necessary tasks to accomplish them. The firm admitted that there are already agents that can understand and perform a number of instructions, but these are usually limited to specific types of tasks.

“Today, there are promising algorithms for supervised language tasks such as question answering, syntactic parsing and machine translation,” the OpenAI team said, “but there aren’t any for more advanced linguistic goals, such as the ability to carry a conversation, the ability to fully understand a document, and the ability to follow complex instructions in natural language. We expect to develop new learning algorithms and paradigms to tackle these problems.”

The firm said that one of its other goals includes developing a single AI that can play games similar to Google’s AlphaGo, but rather than being dedicated to a single game, OpenAI wants to create an agent capable of solving multiple games.

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