OpenAI's mission is to build safe AGI, and ensure AGI's benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible. We expect AI technologies to be hugely impactful in the short term, but their impact will be outstripped by that of the first AGIs.
We conduct fundamental AI research, with a particular emphasis on reinforcement learning, robotics, and generative models. We've recently outlined techniques for learning to learn, training robotic movement policies, developing languages from the ground up, using evolution strategies as an alternative to reinforcement learning, and improving generative adversarial networks. Visit our Research page to learn more.
We often tie our short-term goals to practical projects that let us identify new problems and test our ideas against measurable, defined objectives. We've created the OpenAI Gym and Universe software platforms, and are creating a new one for controlling a General Purpose Robot.
