Intellectuals Have Differing Opinions on the Future of AI
Just today, Mark Zuckerberg slammed Elon Musk’s “irresponsible” views on AI. It seems that they disagree on how dangerous automated systems may become in the future.
Per Zuckerberg : “I have pretty strong opinions on this. I am optimistic. I think you can build things and the world gets better. But with AI especially, I am really optimistic, and I think people who are naysayers and try to drum up these doomsday scenarios — I just, I don’t understand it. It’s really negative and in some ways, I actually think it is pretty irresponsible.”
There seem to be differing camps here. On one hand, PwC’s report states that the general populace think AI will solve “large-scale issues” in medicine and society, and in the other camp, we have someone like Sam Harris lecturing that an intelligence explosion could ultimately destroy us.
Stewart Russell seems to be of the latter camp, and he may have a way to combat this phenomenon.
Bill Gates says: “First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. That should be positive if we manage it well. A few decades after that though, the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern. I agree with Elon Musk and some others on this and don’t understand why some people are not concerned.”
Physicist Stephen Hawking states, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”
Are Elon Musk’s, Bill Gates’, or Stephen Hawking’s views unwarranted? Are they merely spouting uninformed projections?
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