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.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday October 27 2014, @06:40PM
That was from Jack Williamson's "The Humanoids" or, in serial form "With Folded Hands".
"To serve and protect and guard men from harm" was their basic instruction.
(The sequel, "... And Searching Mind" was insisted upon by Campbell, but I never found it convincing, and neither did Jack Williamson. I don't recall whether or not it was incorporated into the novel version.)
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