Hindustan Times ( 26 July
) carries following report :
“ Elon Musk escalates row with Zuckerberg over AI “
The ongoing spat between tech honchos Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg
escalated on Tuesday, with the Space X and Tesla CEO saying the Facebook
creator’s understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) is “ limited ”.
Zuckerberg had earlier claimed Musk’s warnings of the dangers of
AI were “irresponsible” and castigated him for arguing that care and regulation
is needed to safeguard the future if AI were to become mainstream.
“I think people who
are naysayers and try to drum up these doomsday scenarios – I just, I don’t
understand it. It’s really negative and in some ways I actually think it is
pretty irresponsible,” Zuckerberg had said.
In response, Musk
shot back with a tweet on Tuesday, writing, “I’ve talked to Mark about this.
His understanding of the subject is limited.”
Musk had ignited a global
discussion on the dangers of AI back in 2014, when he predicted that machines
that are smarter than humans would spell “doom” for mankind. He is involved in
a startup called Neuralink that intends to build devices to connect the human
brain with computers.
Meanwhile,
Zuckerberg considers himself an optimist when it comes to AI. Inspired by Iron
Man’s AI assistant Jarvis, the Facebook chief has coded and developed his own
artificial assistant which can control his home — including lights,
temperature, appliances, music and security — that learned his tastes, and can
even entertain his daughter Max.
The system he developed uses several AI techniques, including
natural language processing, speech recognition, face recognition and
reinforcement learning.
Even
if we are not sold on Musk’s idea that AI powered Robots will spell “ doom “
for the mankind , there is no doubt that Zuckerberg has designed his assistant JARVIS in such a way
that it observes Mark – and his daughter – all through the day and “ learns “ WHAT THEY ARE DOING , HOW THEY ARE DOING , WHY THEY ARE DOING
With all this “ learning “ ( info shared voluntarily by the
Zuckerberg household ) , Jarvis keeps getting better
Not so frightening , as yet !
Now extend this scenario to JARVIS ( and similar devices from
Microsoft / Google / Amazon / Apple etc) sitting inside a million households
and picking up info about the behaviours ( including spoken words / facial
expressions ) of a BILLION persons and relaying to the CLOUD [ - in 2
years , JARVIS will shrink / morph into that smart phone in your pocket ! ]
That is , “ accumulating /
filtering / multiplying / analysing / extrapolating “ HUMAN
INTELLIGENCE of a
billion persons
This will be the TIPPING POINT , when Artificial Intelligence will overtake the Human Intelligence
!
AND THIS WILL COME ABOUT THROUGH VOLUNTARY ( - OR INVOLUNTARY )
SHARING OF PERSONAL INFO BY A BILLION PERSONS
If you still entertain doubts about the future of
PRIVACY , here is what Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen ( both of Google )
wrote in ,
The New Digital Age ( pg 57 ) -
2013 :
" In an open democracy , where
free expression and responsive governance feed the public’s impulse to share,
citizens will increasingly serve as judge and jury of their peers
More available data about
everyone will only intensify the trends we see today
Every opinion will find space in an expansive virtual landscape ,
real-time updating will foster hyperactive social and civil spheres, and the
ubiquity of social networking will allow everyone to play celebrity, paparazzo
and voyeur , all at once
Each person will produce a voluminous amount of data about himself –
his past and present , his likes and choices , his aspirations and daily habits
Like today, much of this will
be “ opt-in “, meaning the user deliberately choose to share content for some
undefined social or commercial reason ; but some
of it won’t be
Also like today, many online platforms will relay data back to
companies and third parties about user activity WITHOUT THEIR EXPRESS
KNOWLEDGE
PEOPLE WILL SHARE MORE THAN
THEY’RE EVEN AWARE OF "
26 July
2017
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