Monday, October 27, 2014

Elon Musk warns AI could wipe out humanity

Humanity’s quest to outsmart the Creator by developing robots of a higher and more adaptable level of intelligence could prove disastrous for the survival of our species, says Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk.

Speaking at Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit in San Francisco, Musk told Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson that artificial intelligence (AI), at least as it is currently advancing, threatens to destroy human life by making robots inherently smarter and more intuitive.

A vocal proponent of AI technology, Isaacson wrote in a recent Aspen Journal of Ideas piece that today’s biggest innovations are coming from efforts that combine human inspiration with computer processing — this is the essence of AI .... http://www.naturalnews.com