Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives. <\/p>\n
He's worried. Very worried. <\/p>\n
The mention of several place-names currently invokes shudders. <\/p>\n
Whether it be North Korea, Venezuela or even Charlottesville, Virginia, it's easy to get a shivering feeling that something existentially unpleasant might happen, with North Korea still topping many people's lists. <\/p>\n
For Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, however, there's something far bigger that should be worrying us: artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n
In a Friday afternoon tweet, he offered, \"If you're not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea.\" <\/p>\n
He accompanied this with a poster of a worried woman and the words, \"In the end, the machines will win.\" <\/p>\n
The machines always win, don't they? Look how phones have turned us into neck-craning zombies. And, lo, here was Musk also tweeting on Fridayabout a bot created by OpenAI -- the nonprofit he backs -- beating real humans at eSports. <\/p>\n
Still, Musk thinks humanity can do something to fight the robots. <\/p>\n
Indeed, he followed his North Korea message witha renewed call for AI regulation: \"Nobody likes being regulated, but everything (cars, planes, food, drugs, etc) that's a danger to the public is regulated. AI should be too.\" <\/p>\n
Musk brought up this idea last month at a meeting of the National Governors Association. On Friday, he explained in the Twitter comments that AI really does pose an immediate threat. <\/p>\n
\"Biggest impediment to recognizing AI danger are those so convinced of their own intelligence they can't imagine anyone doing what they can't,\" he tweeted. <\/p>\n
You really can't trust humans to do good, even supposedly intelligent humans. <\/p>\n
Especially in these times when few appear to agree what good even looks like. <\/p>\n
CNET Magazine: Check out a sample of the stories in CNET's newsstand edition. <\/p>\n
iHate: CNET looks at how intolerance is taking over the internet. <\/p>\n
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