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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 27 2014, @08:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 27 2014, @08:13PM (#110650)

    Yes, well, your credentials as a video game programmer certainly bring gravitas to the discussion. So nice to hear the truth from someone in the know. I'm so tired of hearing those daydreams from those Grace Hopper award recipients Bill Joy and Ray Kurzweil.

  • (Score: 2) by cafebabe on Monday October 27 2014, @08:53PM

    by cafebabe (894) on Monday October 27 2014, @08:53PM (#110659) Journal

    Ray Kurzweil made his money by writing OCR software for blind people. Ray Kurzweil's book: The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology is about as deep as Nicholas Negroponte's book: Being Digital - that is, not at all. Overall, I'd say that a games programmer brings more gravitas to a discussion about the dangers of general purpose artificial intelligence.

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