Elon Musks "We" Robot event

[nzoomed]

Should we be concerned or excited?
Elon Musk is certainly a visionary for the future but do we want to live in a world run by robots and autonomous cars?
West world might be a reality someday at this rate. AI is probably the bigger threat to humanity over automation in general.

[Oh_hunnihunni]

If Musk was a visionary for the future he would be working to secure it, not working to escape it.

[Lilith7]

It does seem slightly scary & I agree re AI being more of a possible threat, but on the other hand at the rate we're going, we might just manage to destroy our world & each other first....

[Oh_hunnihunni]

We need to be more concerned about who programmes and who teaches these intelligences, than the intelligences themselves.

Remember the Jesuit saying ' give me the boy till age seven and I will show you the man?' That applies to all teachers. Influential creatures...

[Praktica]

We need to be more concerned about who programmes and who teaches these intelligences, than the intelligences themselves.

Remember the Jesuit saying ' give me the boy till age seven and I will show you the man?' That applies to all teachers. Influential creatures...

Hmm - I went through the Catholic education system - and now I'm an atheist.

[Oh_hunnihunni]

It is usually a good education, minus the religious stuff. My great aunt became a Sister of Mercy, and I am a witch, so we make ourselves in the end, through our choices.

[Lilith7]

Mum was sent to a Catholic primary school; the idea being that it would 'make a lady of her', since Gran's eldest sister had been convent school educated..all went well until the day Mum was walking down the street with her parents & an ambulance went past. They suddenly realised she'd disappeared, looked back & there she was,down on her knees on the footpath praying for the poor soul in the ambulance...she was pulled out of catholic school for the rest of primary education.

But it was otherwise a good education for those times.

[nzoomed]

We need to be more concerned about who programmes and who teaches these intelligences, than the intelligences themselves.

Remember the Jesuit saying ' give me the boy till age seven and I will show you the man?' That applies to all teachers. Influential creatures...

Well the whole point of machine learning is so that the AI system can learn things on its own over time and make it's own educated decisions. 
So I guess the real threat is if the AI sees us humans as a danger or threat, then there is cause for concern.