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 mhajicek on Tuesday October 28 2014, @05:17AM
That all depends on your definition of "sentience", which can be rather tricky. If you mean self-aware, any robot that maps a room and knows its location in the room is sentient.
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