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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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(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday October 27 2014, @06:46PM
The key words here are "enough" and "almost".
If FLOPS aren't your thing, maybe you prefer a scalable neuromorphic approach [theregister.co.uk]. The point is, strong AI will be created. And what you see as "hysteria", others see as caution.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 28 2014, @04:27AM
> The key words here are "enough" and "almost".
Lol. Ok, FLOPS are to AI as databases are to photo-processing. NO matter how many FLOPS to add to an AI system you aren't going to make it any more 'I'
> If FLOPS aren't your thing, maybe you prefer a scalable neuromorphic approach
Congrats on being able to use google. But all that does is reinforce my point - you don't know jackshit about what you are talking about.
> And what you see as "hysteria", others see as caution.
Yeah, like all the terrorism hysteria or the ebola hysteria. IRC you are one of those who are happy to run around like a chicken with its head cut-off when it comes to ebola too.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday October 28 2014, @06:07AM
>Lol. Ok, FLOPS are to AI as databases are to photo-processing. NO matter how many FLOPS to add to an AI system you aren't going to make it any more 'I'
If it takes X floating-point operations to simulate the human brain for a millisecond, then throwing more FLOPS at the problem will make that goal achievable in a shorter amount of time. Nobody's claiming that an AI would spontaneously arise in a larger supercomputer, or that it's the best way to create strong AI. The EU [humanbrainproject.eu] is planning to simulate the brain with software that already exists on an exaflops supercomputer within a decade. Increase the available flops by x1,000 or x1,000,000, and strong AI will be easily achievable, in spite of more radical approaches.
>Yeah, like all the terrorism hysteria or the ebola hysteria. IRC you are one of those who are happy to run around like a chicken with its head cut-off when it comes to ebola too.
I think it's hysterical that you would bury your head in the sand and trivialize existential threats. There are far worse biological threats than ebola, and individuals will attack using engineered biological agents at some point. Or did you think that there's no such thing as terrorism or pandemics? If that doesn't fit into your hivemind view of "fearmongering gubberment and media", so be it. Musk is hardly running around screaming about the AI apocalypse, he's just advocating caution.
>Congrats on being able to use google. But all that does is reinforce my point - you don't know jackshit about what you are talking about.
I don't need to write a book to debate one anon. I'm right about FLOPS, and I read the article I linked to the day it was published. Maybe you should lrn2google so you don't have to be schooled in the comments.
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