RE: Elon and AI
May 30, 2019 at 3:34 pm
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2019 at 4:11 pm by I_am_not_mafia.)
(May 30, 2019 at 2:34 pm)Drich Wrote:(May 30, 2019 at 2:22 pm)Mathilda Wrote: Neither of whom have actively researched AI.
Experts have explained to Steven Hawking why he was wrong.
AGAIN SAYS YOU AND YOU ALONE!!! Are we just to take your word? you have done nothing to provide any evidence or proof to anything you have said!
The superhero of artificial intelligence: can this genius keep it in check?
Quote:Stephen Hawking is cited as an encouraging example of what such “getting up-to-speed” can mean. The two recently met in Cambridge for a private conversation instigated by Hassabis. “It was obviously a fantastic honour just meeting him,” he enthuses, pulling out his iPhone – he remains a devotee, despite his new paymasters – to show me a selfie. “We only had an hour scheduled, but he had so many questions we ended up talking for four hours. He missed lunch, so his minders were not very happy with me.”
Since their meeting, Hassabis points out, Hawking has not mentioned “anything inflammatory about AI” in the press; most surprisingly, in his BBC Reith lectures last month, he did not include artificial intelligence in his list of putative threats to humanity. “Maybe it helped, hearing more about the practicalities; more about the actual systems we might build and the checks and controls we can have on those,” Hassabis ventures.
Oh, and just to add something about about Demis Hassabi, the expert who corrected Stephen Hawking ...
Lunch with the FT: Demis Hassabis
Quote:I ask him why he chose to sell his company to Google. DeepMind had plenty of money in the bank, including funding from Peter Thiel, the first major backer of Facebook, and Elon Musk, who leads the commercial space flight group SpaceX.
