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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 27 2014, @08:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 27 2014, @08:19PM (#110652)

    Those truck drivers will have to find jobs elsewhere. But the warehouse jobs are going to robots. The fast food kitchen jobs might too. Even the jobs of some doctors. So where are those millions of truck drivers going to find jobs?

    Forget about the truck drivers! I'm still fixated on how to take care of all those horse and buggy whip makers.

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  • (Score: 2) by fadrian on Tuesday October 28 2014, @06:05AM

    by fadrian (3194) on Tuesday October 28 2014, @06:05AM (#110767) Homepage

    Your analogy falls apart because the transition from buggy whip manufacturing worker to, say... steering tiller handle manufacturing worker is not nearly as great of a leap as from truck driver to robot repairman.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 28 2014, @08:07AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 28 2014, @08:07AM (#110783)
    You overlook one major thing: did the horses get new jobs?

    When the moving machines came the horses lost their jobs. The whip makers could do other stuff - since the moving machines were actually replacing the horses not them.

    When the thinking machines come, you should be careful because you're not that smart.

    • (Score: 2) by cafebabe on Tuesday October 28 2014, @01:17PM

      by cafebabe (894) on Tuesday October 28 2014, @01:17PM (#110838) Journal

      You overlook one major thing: did the horses get new jobs?

      No, but there was a surplus of horsemeat and a shortage of horseshit. And the smell in downtown areas was vastly improved.

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