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I trust Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk more than Mark Zuckerberg.

• david927 11y ago
  The latter two are people with money, not people known for their intellect. Facebook is a PHP site with Weimar Republic levels of technical debt. Theoretically he could buy something interesting, but he's still have to recognize it as interesting, and while I wish him luck, I don't see that happening.
  • ioab 11y ago
    Regardless of that, it's just a feeling that things could get messy with AI if it's not taken seriously, leading to issues like privacy and surveillance misuse we're facing nowadays
    • david927 11y ago
      Your instincts are good here. Remember that FB/Google have deep connections to the US government three-letter agencies -- the CIA's VC arm, for example, is an early investor in FB. So what's going on is that they want to do AI research and instead of recruiting directly, they recruit AI/ML researchers to Google, FB, Palantir, etc. And note, they're not doing it to make everyone happy. They're doing for the reasons you might surmise. Your instincts to be concerned are correct.
• argonaut 11y ago
  I trust Andrew Ng more than any of those people, when it comes to machine learning.