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from the fear-and-loathing-in-theoretical-conciousness dept.
As an investor in DeepMind, Elon Musk has come forward as seriously concerned about the potential for runaway artificial intelligence. The Washington Post writes:
“The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five year timeframe,” Musk wrote in a comment since deleted from the Web site Edge.org, but confirmed to Re/Code by his representatives. “10 years at most.”
The very future of Earth, Musk said, was at risk.
“The leading AI companies have taken great steps to ensure safety,” he wrote. “The recognize the danger, but believe that they can shape and control the digital superintelligences and prevent bad ones from escaping into the Internet. That remains to be seen.”
Musk seemed to sense that these comments might seem a little weird coming from a Fortune 1000 chief executive officer.
“This is not a case of crying wolf about something I don’t understand,” he wrote. “I am not alone in thinking we should be worried.”
With all the talk of the Singularity and Roko's Basilisk, it's no surprise. The article also has a good timeline of Musk's previous criticisms of and concerns about artificial intelligence.
(Score: 4, Funny) by cafebabe on Friday November 21 2014, @11:08PM
Sooner or later, everything will have a dependency with systemd. That includes any strong AI developed on a Linux supercomputer. Given that systemd is likely to be full of security holes, we can stop a rogue AI by hacking into systemd. Given that systemd is so complicated, not even an AI with superhuman intelligence can guard itself against such an attack. This makes systemd our insurance policy against the machines.
Now do you understand the genius of Lennart Poettering?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 21 2014, @11:46PM
This AI will be damn lucky if the computer it's running on even manages to boot. My experience so far with systemd is that it's the most effective way possible, using software alone, to prevent an otherwise perfectly fine Debian system from booting properly.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Saturday November 22 2014, @12:05AM
Some say that 30%-50% of jobs will be automated within 20 years [soylentnews.org]. But don't worry because systemd provides decreasing levels of reliability and security. Furthermore, systemd diagnostics are unnecessary obtuse. With 48 embedded systems per person, there will be plenty of work doing tasks such as rebooting, repairing and upgrading the billions of systemd installations.
So, Lennart Poettering gives us financial stability in addition to protecting us from malevolent AI (and monumentally clumsy AI).
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