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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."
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Elon Musk: "We are Summoning the Demon"
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belief, n:
Something you do not believe.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 27 2014, @03:13PM
this is a hard core neocon desire, to wipe out the USPS
If this is true PLEASE tell them to stop sending me 5 pieces of mail a day that I immediately toss in the recycle bin. I only open them as sometimes they put stamps in them (useful for that occasional birthday card). They even sometimes put 2-3 bucks in them (which I immediately use on the lottery). But other than that, right in the trash. This crap is the most brain dead garbage I swear... The loonies have taken over my party. Can I please give them back to the other party who is just as loony?
And to your point. Even mcdonalds is gearing up for full scale automation. They are replacing all tellers with kiosks. Their food is already 90% pre prepped at a factory 5000 burgers at a time and thousands of pounds of french fries at a time. The back of house is next. They are looking to reduce human resources by 30% in 2 years. The whole job market supply for mcdonalds workers just got shifted by 30% to the right. Meaning more supply than demand. Meaning lower costs to mcdonalds as they can pay min and still come out way ahead. And if someone says 'but who fixes the kiosks'. You know who that will be? A dozen guys in some warehouse in kansas. They will just pull and replace and not worry about fixing it on the spot. You do not need someone very smart for that job. Just someone big enough to lift it and smart enough to package it up correctly for shipping. Which will be auto driven by something like a google truck to the destination in kansas probably next to the burger factory so you can lower dead head runs. Dont even have to worry about those pesky 11 hour driving rules. Even the guys in the warehouse will probably mostly just pull and replace parts and some poor shulub doing 'cleanup' with a bottle of windex and soap water.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday October 28 2014, @05:14AM
I've been wondering why they haven't done that already...
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek