Elon Musk has already ignited a debate over the dangers of artificial intelligence. The chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX has called it humanitysgreatest threat, and something even more dangerous than nuclear weapons. <\/p>\n
Musk publicly hasnt offered a lot of detail about why hes concerned, and what could go wrong. That changed in an interview with scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson, posted Sunday. <\/p>\n
Musks fears lie with a subset of artificial intelligence, called superintelligence. Its defined by Nick Bostrom, author of the highly-cited book Superintelligence, as any intellect that greatly exceed the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest. <\/p>\n
Musk isnt worried about simpler forms of artificial intelligence, such as a driverless car or smart conditioning unit. The danger is when a machine can rapidly educate itself, as Musk explained: <\/p>\n
If there was a very deep digital superintelligence that was created that could go into rapid recursive self-improvement in a non-algorithmic way it could reprogram itself to be smarter and iterate very quickly and do that 24 hours a day on millions of computers, well <\/p>\n
Then thats all she wrote, interjected Tysonwith a chuckle. <\/p>\n
Thats all she wrote, Musk answered. I mean, we wont be like a pet Labrador if were lucky. <\/p>\n
A pet Lab, laughed Tyson. <\/p>\n
I have a pet Labrador by the way, Musk said. <\/p>\n
Well be their pets, Tysonsaid. <\/p>\n
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