Ask HN: Is AI threat overblown?

48 points

9 years ago

Elon Musk, Putin, Mark Z are these guys just overblowing AI? Current developments in AI are no where close to cause WW-III. Why are these leaders frightening people with claims that AI can cause WW-III or ruin the world? On top of that media is going frenzy over any single statements or tweets by these leaders.

I have never seen Andrew Ng or Andrej Karpathy making such claims.

State of the art AI can only do very specialized things in limited scope e.g ASR, NLP,Image recognition, game play etc.

What am I missing?

Sources : https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/04/elon-musk-says-global-race-for-ai-will-be-most-likely-cause-of-ww3.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/24/mark-zuckerberg-elon-musks-doomsday-ai-predictions-are-irresponsible.html

http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/25/technology/elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-ai-artificial-intelligence/index.html

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/4/16251226/russia-ai-putin-rule-the-world

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