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Musk says AI is ‘quite dangerous technology,’ but Gates says ‘there’s no threat’
- detourdog 4y agoThey are both wrong and it's a contrived question. Tech used to race to solve common real world problems. The tech industry would obsess over those issues and got rewards from Wall Street. If one ignores the march to smaller form factors and speed, the last capability that tech delivered in my eyes is networking. I believe the only reason things like, self-driving cars or AI are endlessly hyped is to keep Wall Street thinking there is some big thing happening that they must invest in. I long for the day where technology is boring and nerds are outcasts.
- LatteLazy 4y agoAn actual AI might well be (which is what Musk is talking about). But what we have today is as far from that as the wheelbarrow is from the Space Shuttle (which is what Gates is talking about).
- abudabi123 4y agoWhat A.I. we have today is better than a hand held HP scientific calculator in relation to the Space Shuttle under the guidance of IBM computers before Sun replaced them. The trouble is Elon M types rarely break through the class ceiling to leadership position and make informed technical decisions. (The effective Wintel monopoly on computing has had patchy performance compared to the HP calculator's correctness, see Nasa TIL on the 486 cpu.)