Open thread, June. 19 - June. 25, 2017

Elo

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Are you saying that all of those are working on AGI? That would be enormously surprising to me.

Currently, there's competition about how has the best cloud between Google, IBM, Amazon, Oracle and Microsoft. It seems that those companies believe that a successful cloud platform is one that has API's that can easily used for a wide variety of use cases.

I think this kind of AI research is equivalent with AGI research.

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