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Musk calls that a "radically inaccurate analogy": http://lukemuehlhauser.com/musk-and-gates-on-superintelligence-and-fast-takeoff/ http://lukemuehlhauser.com/mu
by astrofinch 11y ago
Musk calls that a "radically inaccurate analogy": http://lukemuehlhauser.com/musk-and-gates-on-superintelligence-and-fast-takeoff/ http://lukemuehlhauser.com/musk-and-gates-on-superintelligen...
AI luminary Stuart Russell also takes on this analogy in this presentation: https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~russell/talks/russell-ijcai15-future.pptx https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~russell/talks/russell-ijcai15-f...
>OK, let’s continue [the overpopulation on Mars] analogy:
>Major governments and corporations are spending billions of dollars to move all of humanity to Mars [analogous to the billions that are being spent on AI]
>They haven’t thought about what we will eat and breathe when the plan succeeds
>If only we had worried about global warming in the late 19th C.