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Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited"

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @03:28AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @03:28AM (#544994)

    Can't we agree "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind" and avoid the whole risk of Skynet?

    What people should be worried about is the fact that we're nowhere near creating actual artificial intelligence but these guys make headlines anytime they make a brief comment about it. Having cars that know how to follow the curves of a road, break when approaching a stopped vehicle and follow basic GPS to get from A to B is not the same as creating KITT from Knight Rider.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Thursday July 27 2017, @03:38AM (1 child)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday July 27 2017, @03:38AM (#545001) Journal

    Having cars that know how to follow the curves of a road, break when approaching a stopped vehicle

    Had a car like this back in the '80's! Every time it approached a stopped vehicle, it would break, I think out of sympathy! Whole sub-assemblies would just fall off for no reason. Fluids would vacate onto the roadway. The electrical system would flicker, pop, and then go dark. Got rid of that car. Can't see what it has to do with AI. But then, we evidently haven't been able to reliably produce natural intelligences that can distinguish between "break" and "brake", or distinguish between rich and smart. Just saying.

    • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Thursday July 27 2017, @05:05AM

      by captain normal (2205) on Thursday July 27 2017, @05:05AM (#545013)

      Yeah...so why should we be building cars that are capable of behaving like "Christine" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_(novel))?

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