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Elon Musk's AI predictions should terrify us

https://www.damianreilly.co.uk/p/elon-musks-ai-predictions-should
3•myrtlehinch•7h ago

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Juliate•7h ago
> leading AI pioneer

Citation needed.

> its cleverest individual

I am not sure the recent public displays of the quality of judgment of said individual are demonstrative of a particular high level of cleverness.

> "How do you derive fulfilment in life?’ Musk mused to Cruz. It’s a good question."

And he is quite the exemple of someone desperately looking for the answer...

> "and we’ve been planetary top dog, in terms of brains, for at least 50,000 of them"

From our (own limited) perspective, that is.

Fun read anyway. A fun question to add and discuss more often still, would be: if this type of AI takes over the world, what are the chances that those who are replaced (first) are the same rich/powerful ones that are funding its development and advent? What control do they have over it?

al2o3cr•7h ago

    our species’ leading AI pioneer and very possibly its cleverest individual
Corollary of Poe's Law: any sufficiently-advanced glazing is indistinguishable from satire
JohnFen•7h ago
Why should they? Musk's predictions have an extremely poor track record in terms of being accurate.
Zigurd•3h ago
This is amusing if only to the extent that Elon's AI scaremongering is a me-too product, too.

Generative AI is cool and correctly used it is useful. But it's way oversold.

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