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Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg’s understanding of AI is “limited”

Accepted submission by Phoenix666 at 2017-07-25 18:40:12
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There aren't many people in the world who can justifiably call Mark Zuckerberg a dumb-ass, but Elon Musk is probably one of them [arstechnica.com].

Early on Tuesday morning, in the latest salvo of a tussle between the two tech billionaires over the dangers of advanced artificial intelligence, Musk said that Zuckerberg's "understanding of the subject is limited."

I won't rehash the entire argument here, but basically Elon Musk has been warning society for the last few years that we need to be careful of advanced artificial intelligence. Musk is concerned that humans will either become second-class citizens under super-smart AIs [arstechnica.com], or alternatively that we'll face a Skynet-like scenario against a robot uprising [arstechnica.co.uk].

Zuckerberg, on the other hand, is weary of fear-mongering around futuristic technology. "I have pretty strong opinions on this. I am optimistic," Zuckerberg said [facebook.com] during a Facebook Live broadcast on Sunday. "And I think people who are naysayers and try to drum up these doomsday scenarios... I just don't understand it. It's really negative and in some ways I think it is pretty irresponsible."

Then, responding to Zuckerberg's "pretty irresponsible" remark, Musk said on Twitter [twitter.com]: "I've talked to Mark about this. His understanding of the subject is limited."

Two geek enter, one geek leave. That is the law of Bartertown.


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