artificial intelligence

Elon Musk is either privy to some really disturbing technology that the rest of us can't even begin to fathom or he is desperately crying out for help by advertising his recurring nervous meltdowns over social media.

In his latest frightening/entertaining (depending on one's viewpoint) tweet storm, Elon predicts that artificial intelligence will be the "most likely cause of WW3" and that robots may actually initiate the outbreak of a global war if they decide that a "prepemptive strike is most probable path to victory."

With the world's attention focused on the Korean Peninsula and the growing threat of global thermonuclear war, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has bigger things to worry about. In a series of 'alarming' tweets on Friday, Musk warned the world should be more worried about the dangers of artificial intelligence than North Korea.

Having unveiled his apocalytpic vision of the world a few weeks ago...

“Until people see robots going down the street killing people, they don’t know how to react because it seems so ethereal,” he said.

 

The following article by David Haggith is from The Great Recession Blog: 

With high-margin FICC revenues stuck in a secular decline across the financial industry, banks are forced to extract as much profit as possible from existing product lines. Which explains why JPMorgan will soon be using a "first-of-its-kind robot" to do away with carbon-based traders altogether and execute trades across its global equities algorithms business using a "robot", after a recent trial of JPM's new artificial intelligence (AI) program showed it was "much more efficient than traditional methods of buying and selling", the FT reports.

Elon Musk's recent comments about AI's "existential threat to human civilization" prompted a response from Mark Zuckerberg calling the Tesla CEO's comments "pretty irresponsible." Well Musk has struck back this morning, slamming the Facebook chief's understanding of AI as "limited."

As a reminder, Musk called on the government to proactively regulate artificial intelligence before things advance too far.(Musk begins talking around 42 minutes in)