dewayne@warpspeed.com
Date: April 7, 2018 at 1:19:27 PM EDT
[via Dave Farber]
Note: This item comes from friend Ed DeWath. Again, the window to view this video on YouTube is just this weekend. Have at it! DLH]
Elon Musk, YouTube, 6 Apr 2018
Do you trust this computer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D_McBS1NlHJM
Elon Musk -- who believes artificial intelligence could help trigger the
next world war -- has issued another severe warning about how
super-intelligent machines could come to dominate the world. Those super
computers could become "an immortal dictator from which we would never
escape," Musk passionately warns in the new documentary "Do You Trust This
Computer?"
In the documentary, directed by Chris Paine (the man behind 2006's "Who
Killed The Electric Car?"), Musk joins a growing chorus of experts warning
that intelligent machines are already fundamentally changing our society by
amassing personal data, advancing science and medicine and beginning to
create new forms of super intelligence.
Musk paid for "Do You Trust This Computer" to be streamed free on YouTube over the weekend.
egrady@booch.com
Date: April 7, 2018 at 2:34:31 PM EDT
[Follow-up in Dave Farber's IP list]
I followed Elon's thread in Twitter, and had an extended dialog with some there after.
Here is partly what I had to say:
While well-produced, it is indeed rather alarmist (and offers little balance
as to the good therein); it also muddles the role of AI (many of the moments
in the documentary could be said of non-AI software-intensive systems).
Furthermore it radically ignores history (one gets the impression that AI
began in Silicon Valley with Google/Facebook/etc.) and finally, while it
hammers the emotional elements, it offers nothing actionable for the viewer.