Musk Counter Signals AI God Talk

Absolutely should not be allowed to build digital superintelligence

Elon Musk criticizes those who seek to create AI Godhead

It was only a matter of time before someone out of Silicon Valley began to mention AI and God in the same sentence. Well, it recently occurred and Elon Musk is having none of it.

In a tweet, Musk said that anyone who views AI as a God should be on the list of people not allowed to build digital superintelligence. See below

Musk was referring to a recent article in VentureBeat where former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski filed paperwork for a nonprofit religious organization called The Way of the Future. Its mission: “To develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on artificial intelligence and through understanding and worship of the Godhead contribute to the betterment of society.” 

One technology expert, Vince Lynch, has dabbled in attempting to meld AI and Religion to one another and says there are common characteristics between the two. His company IV.AI developed a neural network to read the bible and then the project ended with it producing its own verses.

Agreeing with Musk and also a critic of AI becoming a God is Vincent Jaques of  ChainTrade. He sees a danger in elevating AI to such levels as computer thinking will always be missing certain spiritual and creative aspects.

Anthony Levandowski

“It would be extremely dangerous to have an all-knowing, thinking AI being someday,” says Jacques. “All computer programs, including AI programs, are built for a specific and narrow purpose: win a chess game, win a go game, reduce an electricity bill etc. The computer logic, even if it is advanced AI, doesn’t play well with a general will and general thinking capability that could at the same time design military strategies, marketing strategies, and learn how to play chess from scratch. For this reason, I’m not really scared of a potential super-thinker that could overthrow us one day — I believe that the inventive and innovative part will always be missing.” From VentureBeat

On the list of people who should absolutely *not* be allowed to develop digital superintelligence...https://t.co/reNZ50FGNC

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 24, 2017

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Musk and Tesla help restore power to Puerto Rico 

A local children's hospital had its power restored thanks to a combination of solar energy and Tesla's Powerwall energy storage batteries.

Hospital del Niño, a children’s hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is among those working with Musk. The Tesla CEO and founder offered to provide a few hundred energy storage batteries to facilitate the Carribean island’s efforts to restore energy after its grid was devastated by Hurricane Maria. From Futurism

Puerto Rico is not letting the hurricane destruction go to waste. Instead of rebuilding its damaged and outdated energy grid, it went quickly into talks with Musk and Tesla to see about redoing it with new technology. Powering the children's hospital with solar batteries seems like the first step.