[Moonman62]

Whatever happened to the fear of grey goo?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo

[Yollopoliuhqui]

Google “singularity”
Google “transhumanism”

This topic has been debated for at least two generations of AI researchers. Musk has his head up his butt.

[Buckeye McFrog]

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.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Beagle8U]

Elon Musk sounds like something that oozes out of the glands of an animal like a Yak.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

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.

[Phillyred]

We're going to need this soon: SNL - Robot Insurance

[Sawdring]

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.

[RansomOttawa]

I, for one, welcome our robotic overlords.

[READINABLUESTATE]

DANGER, DANGER, Will Robinson. My hooks are flailing wildly!

[NonValueAdded]

Holy Skynet, Batman, where have I heard that before?

[Bender2]

Re: 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:

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:

[hosepipe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE7PKRjrid4

[Billthedrill]

None of the examples given were of intelligences remotely equal to human, much less surpassing it. After all, an AI whose sole object is the press of a single button has displayed none of the characteristics of self-reflection necessary to decide whether that is, in fact, the greatest good. These characteristics are common in virtually every adult human being who is not a sociopath.

In short, Asimov was wrong, or rather limited in his design philosophy. If you impose the criteria he did - no robot will allow harm to a human being, etc, etc - you have inherently limited that intelligence in a way that human intelligence is not. That simply won't do.

We apply the emotion-laden term "freedom" to this concept, but in fact the greatest expressions of human intelligence do, in fact, result from conditions of at least a degree of intellectual freedom. This is not a political statement, merely an objective observation. And freedom to be good is also freedom to be bad.

Should we be be frightened about an AI that can process all this and still elect a course of action that we cannot anticipate? If we are, we are afraid of ourselves.

Perhaps we should be.

[TexasRepublic]

Bah! Just install Microsoft Windows for Robots 1.0 - that will grind them down to a halt.

[BobL]

He should be a LOT MORE WORRIED about how Edmunds ripped his $100,000 brick a new one.

For example, they had to replace the DRIVE TRAIN 3 times just to drive it 20,000 miles.

[clearcarbon]

"superintelligence?”