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Elon Musk: "We are Summoning the Demon"

posted by LaminatorX on Monday October 27 2014, @11:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the doctor-faustus dept.

jimbrooking writes:

Elon Musk was recently interviewed at an MIT Symposium. An audience asked his views on artificial intelligence (AI). Musk turned very serious, and urged extreme caution and national or international regulation to avoid "doing something stupid" he said.

"With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon", said Musk. "In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like, 'Yeah, he's sure he can control the demon.' Doesn't work out."

Read the story and see the full interview here.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by cafebabe on Monday October 27 2014, @02:05PM

    by cafebabe (894) on Monday October 27 2014, @02:05PM (#110510) Journal

    *Spoiler Warning*

    I was thinking of HAL as an example. I believe that the root cause of failure for HAL was conflicting axioms supplied by compartmentalized departments of government. Even without the creeping secrecy, this scenario should very alarming to anyone who understands incompleteness theory [wikipedia.org]. Even the axioms of geometry remain unresolved after 2,300 years [wikipedia.org].

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