Elon Musk says artificial intelligence is the biggest threat to humans

[Kurt]

http://www.valuewalk.com/2014/10/tesla-ceo-artificial-intelligence-demons/

... Musk, who is also the founder of SpaceX, addressed the MIT Aeronautics department’s Centennial Symposium for about an hour, mulling international oversight to “make sure we don’t do something very foolish.”



... Artificial intelligence works with the help of computers for completing tasks that otherwise need human intelligence such as speech, recognition or language translation. All mega tech companies are excited about artificial intelligence and are betting on the usefulness of the technology when harnessed correctly. Companies such as Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) are keen on developing systems that work like the human brain.



In August, Tesla’s CEO tweeted: “Worth reading Superintelligence by Bostrom. We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.”...

[h=3]Big tech firms developing AI[/h] Back in January, Google acquired British startup DeepMind, which is an artificial intelligence company founded by a 37-year old former chess prodigy and computer game designer. Google’s London office did confirm that the deal was concluded but denied paying $500 million. The startup was founded by researcher Demis Hassabis, together with Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman. Hassabis has done research on the processes that underlie human memory....

 

[Beach Runner]

I just sent this to my son-in-law who is getting his Ph.D. in Computer and Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech in December. He hadn't seen this due to being busy finishing his dissertation. It'll be interesting to see what he thinks. He is inundated with offers related to his specialty in variations of AI.

 

[carson]

I just sent this to my son-in-law who is getting his Ph.D. in Computer and Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech in December. He hadn't seen this due to being busy finishing his dissertation. It'll be interesting to see what he thinks. He is inundated with offers related to his specialty in variations of AI.

He can interview me, my college education was indeed artificial intelligence.

Interesting stuff, very surreal. AI has it's place, but the 64 k question for us liberal arts guys, is where does the AI "learning" stop? It has to progress right?

 

[Leader of the Banned]

Didn't he just put autopilot on the model S?

 

[poppy]

Didn't he just put autopilot on the model S?

True, but it's modeled on a woman driver so it has limited advancement capabilities. Bam!

'Ducer alert! This is satire, calm down.

 

[Kurt]

I just sent this to my son-in-law who is getting his Ph.D. in Computer and Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech in December. He hadn't seen this due to being busy finishing his dissertation. It'll be interesting to see what he thinks. He is inundated with offers related to his specialty in variations of AI.

Have him watch the Terminator series.

 

[Lake View Too]

Has there ever been a new technology that was suspended for possible "unforeseen negative consequences"? Nope.

 

[carson]

Have him watch the Terminator series.

Kurt I thought you would appreciate this
http://www.metaspoon.com/mentawai-islands-drone-video-surfing/?fb=077n1m4554a0

 

[Kurt]

Kurt I thought you would appreciate this
http://www.metaspoon.com/mentawai-islands-drone-video-surfing/?fb=077n1m4554a0

Very nice - I want to be there. Here's the video in the link.

[video=youtube_share;kLg5t6xhFP4]http://youtu.be/kLg5t6xhFP4[/video]

 

[Lake View Too]

Big Brother is monitoring us from the sky and capturing every byte of our digital exhaust..., but Big Sister is capturing every miracle of Mother Nature and allowing us to fly around the world sitting in our armchairs.