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Microsoft co-founder Allen wants to teach machines common sense
Published Thu, Mar 1, 2018 · 09:50 PM
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MICROSOFT'S co-founder Paul Allen said on Wednesday that he was pumping an additional US$125 million into his non-profit computer research lab for an ambitious new effort to teach machines "common sense."
The money for the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence will about double the lab's budget over the next three years, helping to fund existing research as well as the new effort, called Project Alexandria.
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