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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 28 2014, @06:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 28 2014, @06:34AM (#110771)

    "And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed."

  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday October 28 2014, @07:46AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Tuesday October 28 2014, @07:46AM (#110780) Journal

    But "666" would be a rather short implementation of an AI. Indeed, it fits into just two bytes. I'm pretty sure a working strong AI would have to be much larger.

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.