Tesla CEO Elon Musk today (again) considered the dangers of artificial intelligence and issued a dire warning.
At the Wall Street Journal CEO Summit, Musk said, “There is a risk that advanced AI will eliminate or stifle human growth.” When asked about that comment later in the interview, Musk said he was concerned about “non-benign” scenarios related to hyperadvancements in AI.
Mr. Musk said, “I don’t think AI will try to destroy all of humanity, but it may put humanity under strict control,” but speculated that “the possibility of AI destroying humanity is not zero.” . [AI] It’s really becoming a ‘Terminator,'” referring to the terrifying time-traveling robot in James Cameron’s 1984 sci-fi flick.
Rather, Musk thought, AI could control all forms of technology, including computing power and weapons, effectively acting as a “nanny” for the “safety of all humans.”
“The third horse in the race”
Musk is wary of AI’s promise, but that doesn’t mean he’s moving away from business, it just means he’s moving away from AI.
Musk said Microsoft, with its partnership with OpenAI, and Google, with its Bard AI technology, need more competition.
“There should be an important third horse in this race,” Musk said. “We’ll have more details on that soon.”
Musk went on to say that his AI startup, X.AI, is also looking to mimic the relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI by partnering with other companies, notably Twitter and Tesla.
Musk said computing power alone will require significant funding beyond partnerships to win the AI race. “The minimum amount for the server he hardware is he’s $250 million,” he said. He said that besides capital, he has three requirements: people, computing power and data. Companies that have all three will win, he said.
Despite dire warnings about advances in AI, Musk believes Tesla could be one of the big winners in the space, bolstering the automaker’s massive efforts in AI and machine learning. Advertise. Musk said Tesla’s fully self-driving software, now in beta, will be controlled end-to-end by a neural network AI model.
Regulations and the “Abundant Age”
Musk said, believe it or not, society still has time to control the impact of AI through regulation.
Musk is one of the most prominent signatories to a recent open letter calling for a moratorium on the development of cutting-edge AI systems, citing AI’s “serious risks to society and humanity.” believes that now is the time to act.
At the CEO’s event, Musk, a known skeptic of government intervention, called for regulation in the form of an “insight committee” made up of experts and government officials, meeting from time to time to discuss what was happening. said it would monitor in the field of AI.
He said the Insights Board has the power to propose rulemaking, but should not do so in line with the policies of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Food and Drug Administration, which can only issue rules unilaterally under certain circumstances. said you can’t.
But Musk predicted that AI won’t bring us a completely dystopian future. Rather, it is highly likely that an “era of affluence” will come when products and services can be produced at extremely low prices. Musk surmised that humanity is only in danger when technology is needed for more advanced tasks.
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Pras Subramanian is a reporter at Yahoo Finance.you can follow him twitter and further Instagram.
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