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Elon Musk worries Skynet is only five years off
C/net ^ | 11-19-14 | Eric Mack

Posted on 11/21/2014 3:17:11 AM PST by Vaquero

Elon Musk worries Skynet is only five years off The Tesla and SpaceX CEO voices fears that artificial intelligence could become dangerous by the end of the decade.

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1 posted on 11/21/2014 3:17:11 AM PST by Vaquero
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To: Vaquero

SKYNET has taken control - your post - well, it posted twice!!!


2 posted on 11/21/2014 3:19:22 AM PST by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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To: Vaquero; moder_ator

Please remove one of the copies. Thanks


3 posted on 11/21/2014 3:19:42 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero

It’s already here.


4 posted on 11/21/2014 3:28:53 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Vaquero

Oh give me a break, here we are 30 years after Zork, and the A.I. engines for language in top flight video games is hardly any better. (Serious gamers, correct me if I am wrong).

We have NO idea how the brain does what it does. The more we know, the more we know what we don’t know.


5 posted on 11/21/2014 3:53:24 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Agreed. As a developer I have followed the field of AI since the early 80’s and we are no where close and certainly not 5 years off from having “self aware” software. There will have to be some radical departure in hardware and software to make any progress.


6 posted on 11/21/2014 4:17:43 AM PST by crusadersoldier
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To: Dr. Sivana

Until a computer can experience the world the way we do it can never really become aware or learn on its own. Things like pleasure, sadness, worry, love, intuition all come from being human and simply can’t be programmed.


7 posted on 11/21/2014 4:25:57 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: Vaquero

Elon Musk? They guy who thinks a car he builds never belongs to you. A man bought a tesla at an insurance auction after it was seriously damaged. Tesla refuses to release the car’s electronics so that it can be started unless the work is done by their authorized dealers.

He’s another controlist.


8 posted on 11/21/2014 5:06:02 AM PST by bajabaja (Too ugly to be scanned at the airports.)
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To: Vaquero

SkyNet is many decades off at the least, if not several hundred years. Anyone who understands software knows this. People should stop being arrogant and speaking authoritatively about things they know they are not knowledgeable about.


9 posted on 11/21/2014 5:33:53 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Vaquero

AI is THE technology of the future and always will be. Elon Musk has a thing about this, but I think he should stick to electric cars and rockets.


10 posted on 11/21/2014 6:34:23 AM PST by gunsmithkat (There is no such thing as Too Many Guns)
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To: Vaquero

Relax, computers will never achieve sentience and self-determination. Inanimate matter will never progress by itself from a lower state of organization to a higher state, no matter whether it’s a collection of transistors or a puddle of muck.


11 posted on 11/21/2014 11:04:38 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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