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 fadrian on Tuesday October 28 2014, @06:05AM
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.
That is all.