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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."
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Elon Musk: "We are Summoning the Demon"
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You will have domestic happiness and faithful friends.
(Score: 2) by TheLink on Tuesday October 28 2014, @07:56AM
1) The super rich get lots of real stuff
2) The rest get real food/soylent, shelter, maybe real clothes and the rest is non-real virtual stuff (which might be good enough for some ;) ) paid for by the guaranteed income?
The wealth distribution curve probably won't be as extreme as that but that really depends on the path we end up on.
As for virtualization people might end up in The Matrix after all? Perhaps to further reduce resources consumption (computing, food etc) you'd put people in slowed/sleep/hibernate states (who'd know except those awake outside The Matrix? ;) ).
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday October 28 2014, @06:27PM
???
I took the work ephemeralization from Buckminister Fuller.
https://www.google.com/search?q=ephmeralization&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=iceweasel-a&channel=nts [google.com]
Tech stuff gets done with fewer resources as the tech gets more advanced. This includes cars, computers, factories, etc. It doesn't include food or living space. Virtualization lets people vacation without moving, it lets them play games from their apartment, it lets video conferences happen without transportation, it lets people live close together without crowding, etc.
The Matrix was a movie. It is a metaphor of reality, not the real thing. Don't take it too literally. Don't believe it without thinking about it. Much of it wouldn't work no matter WHAT tech you had. If you want an actual vision of where this could lead, read "The Machine Stops":
The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story (of 12,000 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops [wikisource.org]
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