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gilbert sullivan

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34. I like the guy but he's full of beans on this one.

Sun Jul 16, 2017, 01:19 PM

Jul 2017

Whatever eventually emerges as "artificial" intelligence will be an inevitable product of evolution which of course is
"natural"...or as close to it as anything can really be. If it essentially replaces humans, so what?, it's not as if we did much
with what we allegedly gained when some guy ate an apple...

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Elon Musk Says Artificial Intelligence Is the Greatest Risk We Face as a Civilization [View all] Doug the Dem Jul 2017 OP

Religion fascism and the republican party is far greater threat Matthew28 Jul 2017 #1

dr who had a show about this earlier this year. BE HAPPY! pansypoo53219 Jul 2017 #2

Elon Musk clearly hasn't been paying attention to what's going on with climate change (n/t) Spider Jerusalem Jul 2017 #3

yup, climate change JI7 Jul 2017 #4

My 12 year old nephew explained that the s series is meant to fund the next car, a 10-15K mahina Jul 2017 #15

Right, we'll cut CO2 by making sure that everybody in China and India . . . hatrack Jul 2017 #36

Obviously that's not what I said. mahina Jul 2017 #37

Well, I guess you thought wrong . . . hatrack Jul 2017 #38

Especially with Natural Intelligence being as low as it is these days ck4829 Jul 2017 #5

How about Soxfan58 Jul 2017 #6

Nope Duppers Jul 2017 #7

He's very well aware of climate change. Dave Starsky Jul 2017 #19

Can't they just unplug it if it gets too unruly? Blues Heron Jul 2017 #8

No. Because we won't be able to tell between AI and Humans JI7 Jul 2017 #10

There's a book you should read: LudwigPastorius Jul 2017 #43

Ignore Elon at our own peril truthisfreedom Jul 2017 #9

Has he talked of global warming ? People can be a genius in certain areas JI7 Jul 2017 #11

He started an electric car company to get us off fossil fuels killbotfactory Jul 2017 #16

He founded Tesla Ruby the Liberal Jul 2017 #24

The same has been said about Stephen Hawking. Duppers Jul 2017 #13

Well, duh...we all knew that after Space Odyssey and Terminator.... Pachamama Jul 2017 #12

Because AI robots can cool themselves after we die off from the heat dalton99a Jul 2017 #14

A lot of AI jimmil Jul 2017 #17

LOL. He's an undertaxed billionaire, so he must be an expert in ... everything!!111!!1 PSPS Jul 2017 #18

Nope. It's lack of human intelligence thucythucy Jul 2017 #20

That's the underlying cause of it all. Duppers Jul 2017 #21

After witnessing Trump Gore1FL Jul 2017 #22

i cant stand fear for fears sake , stupidity for stupidtys sake . this AllaN01Bear Jul 2017 #23

yup, I watched the AI of games evolve. Downright scary computer controlled armed drone swarms, Sunlei Jul 2017 #25

He's not talking about fantasy far off in the future. yallerdawg Jul 2017 #26

We see how bots affect Twitter with respect to politics. Bots with sufficient ai SweetieD Jul 2017 #50

Long before we'd be under attack MurrayDelph Jul 2017 #27

More dangerous than the Artificial Stupidity of the Trump Administration? Nitram Jul 2017 #28

He's not talking about Windows 20 or the iPhone 15 mn9driver Jul 2017 #29

This message was self-deleted by its author mn9driver Jul 2017 #30

I really hate the term artificial intelligence Stryst Jul 2017 #31

Not even close. Binkie The Clown Jul 2017 #32

Didn't one of his driverless cars recently get someone killed ? ucrdem Jul 2017 #33

I like the guy but he's full of beans on this one. gilbert sullivan Jul 2017 #34

On the contrary, AI is the ONLY way humanity will ever have a meaningful presence beyond earth. hunter Jul 2017 #35

The ending of Kubrick/Speilberg's "A.I." movie. yallerdawg Jul 2017 #52

Real Stupidity is the more immediate threat, however. 6000eliot Jul 2017 #39

The first victims of AI will be human jobs andym Jul 2017 #40

I'm not sure there is anything such as "generalized intelligence." hunter Jul 2017 #42

Put AI in charge Turbineguy Jul 2017 #41

He needs to wait for a government to be elected that is interested in science and society mdbl Jul 2017 #44

The other kind of artificial intelligence is dangerous too. Kablooie Jul 2017 #45

Wrong. Lack of intelligence is. Owl Jul 2017 #46

Because they will see that the rich hoarding the planet is bunk as hell. Shandris Jul 2017 #47

This was debated on IQ2 pablo_marmol Jul 2017 #48

I believe Elon is right. We can't imagine the scenario now just like Julius Caesar SweetieD Jul 2017 #49

The greatest risk? No way... rather hyperbolic. defacto7 Jul 2017 #51