Elon Musk: ‘With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.’

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Post by massappeal » Fri, Oct 24, 2014, 7:56 PM UTC

Elon Musk: ‘With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.’
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Post by sadfaceunread » Fri, Oct 24, 2014, 8:38 PM UTC

Terrible title.

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Post by visionscaper » Fri, Oct 24, 2014, 10:11 PM UTC

I really like how Elon Musk thinks big and acted on it : "..get us back on track of extending life beyond earth, that’s the reason for starting SpaceX" (51:43)

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Post by theoh » Fri, Oct 24, 2014, 10:32 PM UTC

sadfaceunread wrote: post #2

Terrible title.

He says AI is the biggest existential threat we face. It's at about 1:07 I think. What's the problem?

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Post by visionscaper » Fri, Oct 24, 2014, 10:51 PM UTC

theoh wrote: post #4

sadfaceunread wrote: post #2

Terrible title.

He says AI is the biggest existential threat we face. It's at about 1:07 I think. What's the problem?

FYI, to be exact :

"We should be very careful about Artificial Intelligence, if I would guess to what our biggest existential thread is, it's probably that" 1:07:44

Re: Elon Musk: ‘With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.’

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Post by massappeal » Fri, Oct 24, 2014, 11:04 PM UTC

sadfaceunread wrote: post #2

Terrible title.

Agreed. I pulled it from the title of the article I originally read, but knowing that HN prefers primary sources, I linked to the video.

Edit: article link http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/10/2...

Re: Elon Musk: ‘With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.’

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Post by matheweis » Fri, Oct 24, 2014, 11:27 PM UTC

Full transcript of the quote OP was referencing (at 1:07:44 as indicated by visionscaper)

"I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I were to guess at what our biggest existential thread is, it's probably that. So, we need to be very careful with artificial intelligence. I am increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight at the institutional, maybe at the national and international - level, just to make sure we don't to something very foolish. I mean with artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon. You know - you know all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water and he's like, yea, sure you can control the demon... didn't work out."