Do you not visit r/all? This is on the front page all the time. Also you can be sure as hell DARPA is studying and putting in place proactive approaches to AI.

It's called an EMP, probably resulting from a nuke.

His statements are right on it. The government usually puts laws into place due to outrage or mob rule. Any issues with AI will be too fast for government intervention. People will exploit its logic flaws like I can with askreddit's auto ban on emails. Simply ask the right question like what is the worst email address to have at work and watch the bans roll in. Someone will roll along and exploit the flaws left and right. I mean if you hooked up an AI to a metal 3d printer or Amazon, it could easily replicate itself and create facial recognizing drones that attack and kill if they see a certain face. It could do this entirely in secret if it was hooked up to the internet and use cameras as eyes and ears. By the time it took to create regulations, it could easily destroy over half the world.

Recently there was an article about a team(Microsoft?) that developed some AI. The AI didn't have any incentive to continue using English so they started modifying the language to be of more use to them, to the point where the researchers couldn't fully understand them anymore. They scrapped it, supposedly, and started again with a focus on them staying in English so they could be understood.

I have a tendency to immediately imagine the worst possible outcome, so when I heard AI were developing their own language because it was easier I got a little scared. It made me think that if there's a concern over future AI control, we'll never see it coming. Their communications will be unintelligible and we won't have any warning. Reminded me of the show Odyssey 5, where the plot of one episode was the protagonists had to discover and stop a rogue AI. The AI wanted to end everything so it altered the results at some research facility so the scientists there would make a mistake big enough to destroy the world.

Facebook, not Microsoft.

Musk is in on it with the rest of them, he is helping develop these technologies...

Yea, it's common knowledge, anyone who can critically think knows the potential dangers of AI, plus plenty have spoke about it for a long time. It's nothing new. He's just another public figure pushing an agenda

Sounds like you already follow this guy blindly and accept him as the way he's portrayed to you by media. He's just a front man, he's nothing special. That's all, zero agenda.

Very quick? I work in the tech industry, I've read up on and been following musk, his companies and books for years, yes he has interesting things to say but I don't think you get how the world works. Which is all good.

You might be having a conversation with AI.

If its not happening now, it will be happening eventually.

At what point does artificial intelligence just become intelligence? And when that happens, there will be no need for us to exist.

It is possible our existence is just a step in evolution and we are the the cusp of the next stage? We will phase out and our creation will replace us?

Well, if the bible is true, all God is is an advanced intelligence. I have felt like we are in a continual loop. A perfect loop. We are just doing what has been done an infinite number of times.

well good luck!

He may be a spook, but he sure as hell isn't an idiot.

Great post. In the second interview you can see Elon's mind racing when they ask about the other companies involved in AI and he says "there's only one". Google is using machine learning to analyze our thoughts and desires via the mass amount of data they collect on us. Humanity's free will is at stake and Elon does appear to be trying to help prevent that.

Have you seen Alex Jones' podcast he did with Joe Rogan? I don't watch Infowars but IMO that was the most genuine I've ever seen him and he specifically mentions Google's mission to create a hivemind consciousness that can be controlled. If you know how a system will react to an input, you can control the future. This is the basis behind Aasimov's Foundation series.

I've never been more certain that this is the current crisis humanity faces.

If you listen to Corey Goode, this outcome is an objective of the dark forces here. They plan to just hack the technology afterwards. They are also controlled by AI themselves. Their AI inspired the myth of Satan. It assimilates life through this process and it and its minions have been here encouraging us along the way, for life to submit its will to machines. Damnation is this process.

This is the best (long) article about how when AI hits singularity we'll be comparatively as smart as dust mites and that the shock of realization will actually kill people from brain aneurysms, shock or heart attacks. I'd highly suggest taking the time to read it. You will not be sorry.

You're welcome. Enjoy!

At what point does AI just becom "I"?

As soon as it reproduces

At first I dismissed the idea of out of control A.I. as far fetched, but then I realized that if the only thing it was programmed for was survival, it might be able to evolve to spread itself around in various ways. I doubt that it would ever come to the conclusion that it should harm people on purpose, but it could just spread so much that it infects and messes up a bunch of computer systems kind of like a strong virus.

I've heard rumors, only rumors, that other world powers like China, Russia, India, etc. are essentially having an arms race to develop the dominant AI before the rest. I thought the nuclear race was bad, the implications here fill me with even more trepidation.