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 Reziac on Tuesday October 28 2014, @03:37AM
The trouble with intellectual property is that it can only be sold once. After that someone WILL find a way to copy it, far more cheaply than you can sell your version. Maybe not immediately and maybe not perfectly, but soon enough, and good enough. Other people are not so stupid that they can't figure this out.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.