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Science/Tech See other Science/Tech Articles Title: Elon Musk: a Machine Tasked with Getting Rid of Spam Could End Humanity Tesla and SpaceX C.E.O. Elon Musk said he was worried that people didnt understand how fast artificial intelligence was progressing, and expressed his concern that, in a worst-case scenario, a super-intelligent machine might decide to destroy human life. Musk was speaking to Walter Isaacson, the president and C.E.O. of the Aspen Institute, on stage at Vanity Fairs New Establishment Summit in San Francisco. Musk, uncharacteristically wearing a suit, detailed his fears after teasing the announcement of Teslas secretive project called the D. I dont think anyone realizes how quickly artificial intelligence is advancing. Particularly if [the machine is] involved in recursive self-improvement . . . and its utility function is something thats detrimental to humanity, then it will have a very bad effect, said Musk. If its [function] is just something like getting rid of e-mail spam and it determines the best way of getting rid of spam is getting rid of humans . . . Musk trailed off, as the crowd laughed. Isaacson asked Musk if his well-publicized desire to retire on Mars, part of the inspiration behind Musks spacecraft company, SpaceX, could help him outrun the evil machines. Nomore likely than not that if theres some . . . apocalypse scenario, it may follow people from Earth, said Musk. Earlier at the Summit, SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell described the development of reusable transport systems that will take people to Mars as one of the companys main goals. If you cant reuse them then you have to build them from scratch on Mars or you wont get to come back!, Shotwell said earlier on Wednesday. Do you think you maybe read too much science fiction? Isaacson asked Musk. Yes, thats possible, he said. Probably. In response to a later question about Virtual Reality, Musk questioned whether or not the Summit itself might be a simulation. Theres a one in a billion chance that this is reality, Musk said. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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