Posted on 08/04/2014 12:19:32 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
Elon Musk, the Tesla and Space-X founder who is occasionally compared to comic book hero Tony Stark, is worried about a new villain that could threaten humanity—specifically the potential creation of an artificial intelligence that is radically smarter than humans, with catastrophic results:
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Musk is talking about “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies” by Nick Bostrom of the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute. The book addresses the prospect of an artificial superintelligence that could feasibly be created in the next few decades. According to theorists, once the AI is able to make itself smarter, it would quickly surpass human intelligence.
What would happen next? The consequences of such a radical development are inherently difficult to predict. But that hasn’t stopped philosophers, futurists, scientists and fiction writers from thinking very hard about some of the possible outcomes. The results of their thought experiments sound like science fiction—and maybe that’s exactly what Elon Musk is afraid of.
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Whatever happened to the fear of grey goo?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo
Google “singularity”
Google “transhumanism”
This topic has been debated for at least two generations of AI researchers. Musk has his head up his butt.
I suppose it is the ultimate human conceit to believe that we could actually create something that is smarter than what the Almighty has created in us.
I'm thinkin....they got batteries? How bout hydraulic lines? I dunno, one good shotgun round to the optics.
There will always be a vulnerability...always.
Better beef’em up cause humans are a resourceful lot.
Elon Musk sounds like something that oozes out of the glands of an animal like a Yak.
My cat tells me that he is smarter than me. After all, who is waiting on whom?
Isn’t this the guy who gave boatloads of money to Obama and Obama then responded in kind by giving Musk and his companies boatloads of taxpayers’ money in the form of “grants” to develop electric cars?
Whew....that was a long sentence.
I went to take a look at the referenced book at Amazon.com and the computer said it was over rated and I should read it.
I thought Elon Musk was the guy that starred in that awful sitcom with Pamela Anderson...
I, for one, welcome our robotic overlords.
Yes, very well stated. Had a discussion with my daughter and granddaughter last night. Started with how amazing water is, and how life depends on it. Expanded that to how Earth is at the perfect orbit to not boil off water or freeze it. And the Moon is exactly at the proper distance to create tides and seasons to support life. And so on. Too many coincidences that make life possible, so it must have been engineered. And that we are making things by observing and copying what occurs in nature. We are not creating or inventing, we're reverse engineering stuff in a feeble attempt to mimic what the Almighty has done.
I though it was a bottled scent used as trapping lure or something like that.
Philosophically speaking AC/DC asked the question, “Who Made Who?”
Not really, it’s just transferring a concept from humans to machines. The goal of all parents is to have kids that are smarter than them, avoiding their mistakes and building a better life. We know because of that that we can make something smarter than us. The question then becomes what happens when that something isn’t human. There are a whole lot of implications to making robots that are smarter than us that aren’t there when you’re making the next generation smarter than us.
DANGER, DANGER, Will Robinson. My hooks are flailing wildly!
Holy Skynet, Batman, where have I heard that before?
Well, when I start to kill all humans, Elon... 
will have to be in the first batch--
But for now I have to stay on point as it is football season and I have previous commitments:
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