{"id":6047,"date":"2014-10-24T11:19:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T18:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6047"},"modified":"2014-10-28T11:22:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T18:22:29","slug":"summoning-the-demon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/24\/summoning-the-demon\/","title":{"rendered":"Summoning The Demon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/innovations\/wp\/2014\/10\/24\/elon-musk-with-artificial-intelligence-we-are-summoning-the-demon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Washington Post<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Elon Musk: \u2018With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.\u2019<\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"pb-byline\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/matt-mcfarland\" target=\"_blank\">Matt McFarland<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posttv\/c\/embed\/1bcbe084-5bbd-11e4-9d6c-756a229d8b18\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has warned about artificial intelligence\u00a0before, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/495759307346952192\" target=\"_blank\">tweeting that\u00a0it could be<\/a> more dangerous than nuclear weapons. Speaking Friday at the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #222222;\">MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics department\u2019s Centennial Symposium, Musk called it our biggest existential threat:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"citation\"><p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I were\u00a0to guess like what our biggest existential threat\u00a0is, it\u2019s probably\u00a0that. So we\u00a0need to be very careful with the artificial\u00a0intelligence. Increasingly scientists think there should be some regulatory oversight maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don\u2019t do something very foolish. With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there\u2019s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it\u2019s like yeah he\u2019s sure he can control the demon. Didn\u2019t work out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk was so caught up on artificial\u00a0intelligence that he missed the audience\u2019s next question. \u201cSorry can you repeat the question, I was just sort of thinking about the AI thing for a second,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/innovations\/wp\/2014\/10\/24\/elon-musk-with-artificial-intelligence-we-are-summoning-the-demon\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at WaPo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Washington Post Elon Musk: \u2018With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.\u2019 By Matt McFarland Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has warned about artificial intelligence\u00a0before, tweeting that\u00a0it could be more dangerous than nuclear weapons. Speaking Friday at the\u00a0MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics department\u2019s Centennial Symposium, Musk called it our biggest existential threat: I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}