Marvel’s Age of Ultron Echoes Musk’s AI Concerns (awesome video)
Marvel’s third trailer, released yesterday, starts to tell more of the “Age of Ultron” story (for those who haven’t read up already). Tony Stark has created AI which now wants to exterminate the human race.
Hmmm. Sounds vaguely familiar.
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Musk: Simpsons “Kind of Trippy”
Via a Bloomburg story, Musk says the experience of taping the Simpsons episode for Sunday’s airing was enjoyable, and “kind of trippy”.
We also get some interesting details:
“The episode begins, naturally enough, with Musk traveling through space in a craft of his own design. He’s taking the genius engineer version of a Sunday drive because he’s struggling to come up with...
Musk Signs FLI Open Letter: Priorities for AI Research
Musk is one of 160+ publicly listed signatories of an open letter posted by the MIT affiliated Future of Life Institute, announced with a re-tweeted comment “First question asked of AI; “Is there a god?” First AI answer; “There is now”.
The letter observes:
There is now a broad consensus that AI research is progressing steadily, and that its impact on society is likely...
Elon Embraces the Drone (Ship)
Musk is apparently looking into repurposing offshore oil rig gear to build a ship that his rocket can land on, in a tweet called “the best tweet of all time” by one of his loyal followers.
Worried about it moving around? Musk says it can “…hold position within 3m even in a storm.”
What about the rocket tipping over? No doubt he’s thought of that and has an answer. ...
Wethinks Elon likes X-Men, names Tesla robots after them
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Apparently, Elon is a big fan of the X-Men. In a new Tesla Motors blog post it’s revealed that the company has taken to naming its largest robots after them.
Rather than refer to these robots by technical descriptions, we named them after X-Men characters. Xavier stands at the entrance to the trim line, lifting cars down to the floor from an electrified rail, while Iceman, Wolverine,...
WP Asks Elon Musk to Talk About Killer Robots
“Why the Fear, Elon?” – WP
In a post in the Morning Mix, Justin Moyer of the Washington Post suggests:
“Does Musk fear any or all of the above — redundancy, liquidation or gray goo — at the hands of AI? If so, he should just say so, preferably without references to Arnold Schwarzenegger films.
As crazy as gray goo sounds, people might think him less eccentric if he just...
Killer Robot Comments Rekindled
Business Insider is stirring up discussion about Elon Musk’s AI concerns again. In a post dated today, they claim:
Elon Musk has been ranting about killer robots again.
…and go on to say:
…minutes after he posted the comment, it was deleted.
The source, on Reddit: Elon Musk’s deleted Edge comment from yesterday on the threat of AI.
The original comment:
“The pace of...
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