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posted by martyb on Thursday July 27 2017, @02:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the benign-benevolent-or-badass? dept.

There aren't many people in the world who can justifiably call Mark Zuckerberg a dumb-ass, but Elon Musk is probably one of them.

Early on Tuesday morning, in the latest salvo of a tussle between the two tech billionaires over the dangers of advanced artificial intelligence, Musk said that Zuckerberg's "understanding of the subject is limited."

I won't rehash the entire argument here, but basically Elon Musk has been warning society for the last few years that we need to be careful of advanced artificial intelligence. Musk is concerned that humans will either become second-class citizens under super-smart AIs, or alternatively that we'll face a Skynet-like scenario against a robot uprising.

Zuckerberg, on the other hand, is weary of fear-mongering around futuristic technology. "I have pretty strong opinions on this. I am optimistic," Zuckerberg said during a Facebook Live broadcast on Sunday. "And I think people who are naysayers and try to drum up these doomsday scenarios... I just don't understand it. It's really negative and in some ways I think it is pretty irresponsible."

Then, responding to Zuckerberg's "pretty irresponsible" remark, Musk said on Twitter: "I've talked to Mark about this. His understanding of the subject is limited."

Two geeks enter, one geek leaves. That is the law of Bartertown.


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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday July 27 2017, @02:48AM (3 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Thursday July 27 2017, @02:48AM (#544982) Journal
    "There aren't many people in the world who can justifiably call Mark Zuckerberg a dumb-ass"

    You could not be more wrong.

    "but Elon Musk is probably one of them."

    Oops, already proved me wrong.

    Seriously, how much do you get paid for this fluff-job?

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by TheRaven on Thursday July 27 2017, @07:59AM (1 child)

    by TheRaven (270) on Thursday July 27 2017, @07:59AM (#545058) Journal

    "There aren't many people in the world who can justifiably call Mark Zuckerberg a dumb-ass"

    You could not be more wrong.

    That was where I stopped reading when I saw TFA on Ars yesterday. I'd be willing to bet that a good 40% of the population can justifiably call Zuckerberg a dumbass. Unless we're conflating luck with intelligence now, in which case we should start awarding Nobel Prizes to lottery winners.

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    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday July 27 2017, @08:10AM

      by kaszz (4211) on Thursday July 27 2017, @08:10AM (#545063) Journal

      How many percent can call him an evil asshole? ;-)

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @08:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @08:47AM (#545078)

    > Seriously, how much do you get paid for this fluff-job?

    Unfortunately, Elon Musk is the new Steve Jobs and has many fanboys ready to suck his tiny cock for free.