« If you’re not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea, » Musk warned people around the world on Twitter Friday night.
Elon Musk tweeted some warnings about artificial intelligence on Friday night.
« If you’re not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea, » Musk tweeted after his $1 billion startup, OpenAI, made a surprise appearance at a $24 million video game tournament Friday night, beating the world’s best players in the video game, « Dota 2. »
Musk claimed OpenAI’s bot was the first to beat the world’s best players in competitive eSports, but quickly warned that increasingly powerful artificial intelligence like OpenAI’s bot — which learned by playing a « thousand lifetimes » of matches against itself — would eventually need to be reined in for our own safety.
« Nobody likes being regulated, but everything (cars, planes, food, drugs, etc) that’s a danger to the public is regulated. AI should be too, » Musk said in another tweet on Friday night.
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Musk has previously expressed a healthy mistrust of artificial intelligence. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO warned in 2016 that, if artificial intelligence is left unregulated, humans could devolve into the equivalent of « house cats » next to increasingly powerful supercomputers. He made that comparison while hypothesizing about the need for a digital layer of intelligence he called a « neural lace » for the human brain.
« I think one of the solutions that seems maybe the best is to add an AI layer, » Musk said. « A third, digital layer that could work well and symbiotically » with the rest of your body, » Musk said during Vox Media’s 2016 Code Conference in Southern California.
Nanotechnologists have already been working on this concept .
Musk said at the time: « If we can create a high-bandwidth neural interface with your digital self, then you’re no longer a house cat. »
Jillian D’Onfro contributed to this report.
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