'Mark my words — A.I. is far more dangerous than nukes,' Elon Musk said.
Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk has doubled down on his dire warnings about the danger of artificial intelligence.
Some have called his tough talk fear-mongering. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said Musk's doomsday AI scenarios are unnecessary and"pretty irresponsible." And Harvard professor Steven Pinker also recently criticized Musk's tactics."The biggest issue I see with so-called AI experts is that they think they know more than they do, and they think they are smarter than they actually are," said Musk."This tends to plague smart people.
Musk pointed to machine intelligence playing the ancient Chinese strategy game Go to demonstrate rapid growth in AI's capabilities. For example, London-based company, DeepMind, which was acquired by Google in 2014, developed an artificial intelligence system, AlphaGo Zero, that learned to play Go without any human intervention. It learned simply from randomized play against itself. The Alphabet-owned company announced this development in a paper published in October.
Musk called for regulatory oversight of artificial intelligence in July too, speaking to the National Governors Association."AI is a rare case where I think we need to be proactive in regulation than be reactive," Musk said in July. "So it is really all about laying the groundwork to make sure that if humanity collectively decides that creating digital super intelligence is the right move, then we should do so very very carefully — very very carefully. This is the most important thing that we could possibly do."
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