Tesla CEO Elon Musk fired off a new and ominous warning on Friday about artificial intelligence, suggesting the emerging technology poses an even greater risk to the world than a nuclear conflagration with North Korea.
Musk—a fierce and long time critic of A.I. who once likened it to "summoning the demon" in a horror movie—said in a Twitter post that people should be concerned about the rise of the machines than they are.
Reacting to the news that autonomous tech had bested competitive players in an electronic sports competition, Musk posted what appeared to be a photo of a poster bearing the chilling words "In the end, the machines will win."
Musk, who is spearheading commercial space travel with his venture SpaceX, is also the founder of OpenAI, a nonprofit that promotes the "safe" development of AI. His stance puts him at odds with much of the tech industry, but echoes remarks of prominent voices like Stephen Hawking—who has also issued dire warnings about machine learning.
Ironically enough, it was OpenAI's own technology that managed to beat two professional eSports players at a major tournament, after only two weeks of practice. The Dota 2 contest is known to be extremely complex, pitting two teams against one another in a virtual battle arena.
iTzLux1080p on August 13rd, 2017 at 19:32 UTC »
Probably saw one of the dota pros beeing trashed by the AI- bot.
savagedigger2017 on August 13rd, 2017 at 18:56 UTC »
So, I've been one of those people who's been skeptical of Musk's constant AI alarms. Until I watched a talk recently given by Google's Jeff Dean.
To put it in a nutshell, Google has already started playing with the idea of autonomously generating neural networks. So rather than the human come up with the neural net architecture, the machine will try to come up with one itself. Its early stages right now but the idea has been shown to work very well.
The second thing they are looking at is one model that can do variety of tasks rather than having a specific model for a specific task. They've already published a paper somewhat tongue-in-cheek "One model to rule them all".
Put these two things together and a few years and you can begin to see the potential problems. Musk is good friends with Larry Page.
Keep in mind we don't need AI to be self-aware to run into problems. Just imagine an update going out to all autonomous teslas to do whatever it takes to prevent its own destruction.
dumandizzy on August 13rd, 2017 at 18:39 UTC »
This really makes me wonder what AI experiment of his went horribly wrong, and how.