Hawking is a theoretical physicist, a field that is not even remotely connected to AI. The criticism I have of Musk not being an expert in the subject matter at hand applies even more to Hawking. Stephen Hawking has warned of these dangers too. As someone who is currently pursuing a PhD in machine learning, I really don't appreciate that. This kind of stuff is liable to take funding away from AI research because people have become too scared of it. Not only is this blatantly false, it is totally irresponsible of him to use his publicity to spread baseless fears like this. He is literally warning that AI could wipe out humanity any second now. I have read some of his public statements on AI and while there is definitely research to be done on how to deploy AI safely in environments where it could harm or kill people, the layperson is clearly going to interpret these writings as warnings of doomsday. As far as I know, he has not contributed anything academically to the field of AI nor has he personally designed any AI applications he has researchers and teams of engineers do those things for him. Providing funding and being co-chair of OpenAI does not mean he knows anything about AI. It's the media that flips out and acts like the sky is falling. But this is the guy who wants to colonize mars - he makes plans that last decades. A powerful AGI could be a threat to humanity, even if it isn't for a few decades. So I think Musk is being honest and correct when he says this is a real concern. In fact I think the big reason why Zuckerburg disagrees is that his company plans to deploy many more "smart" features powered by machine learning and he wants to fight the social stigma. If we can build an AGI I see no reason why it wouldn't be at least as dangerous as a human, and some humans have nearly destroyed us all (Hitler, Cold War leaders, etc). But that's exactly what the stated goal of OpenAI, Deepmind, and others is. if we can build an artificial general intelligence at all. If you listen to what he says, I think his statements are factual. Gizmodo: No, Facebook Did Not Panic and Shut Down an AI Program That Was Getting Dangerously SmartĮDIT#4: And now, BBC joins in to clear the air as well:īBC: The 'creepy Facebook AI' story that captivated the mediaĮlon Musk is far from "knowing nothing" about AI. :/ĮDIT#2: As pointed out in the comments, there's also this opposite article: I understand that sometimes articles should try to make the news more interesting/appealing by hyping it a bit, but this is almost detrimental, and is just promoting AI fear-mongering.ĮDIT#1: Some people on Facebook are actually believing this fear to be real, sending me links and asking me about it. I wouldn't even call this hype, but almost 'fake news'. While I understand the hype around deep learning (a.k.a backpropaganda), etc., I think these articles are so ridiculous. One of the articles (don't remember which) even went on to say something like 'A week after Elon Musk suggested AI needs to be regulated and Mark Zuckerberg disagreed, Facebook had to shut down it's AI because it became too dangerous/scary' (or something to this effect). While the article from Independent seems to be the only one that finally gives the clarification 'The company chose to shut down the chats because "our interest was having bots who could talk to people"', ALL the articles say things that suggest that researchers went into panic mode, had to 'pull the plug' out of fear, this stuff is scary. Note that this is related to the work in the Deal or No Deal? End-to-End Learning for Negotiation Dialogues paper. Independent: Facebook's AI robots shut down after they start talking to each other in their own languageīGR: Facebook engineers panic, pull plug on AI after bots develop their own languageįorbes: Facebook AI Creates Its Own Language In Creepy Preview Of Our Potential Futureĭigital Journal: Researchers shut down AI that invented its own languageĮDIT#3: FastCoDesign: AI Is Inventing Languages Humans Can’t Understand. My Facebook wall is full of people sharing this story that Facebook had to shut down an AI system it developed that invented it's own language. Metacademy is a great resource which compiles lesson plans on popular machine learning topics.įor Beginner questions please try /r/LearnMachineLearning, /r/MLQuestions or įor career related questions, visit /r/cscareerquestions/ Please have a look at our FAQ and Link-Collection Rules For Posts + Research + Discussion + Project + News on Twitter Chat with us on Slack Beginners:
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