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Elon Musk warns AI will ‘out-think humans and become indistinguishable’
Elon Musk has said that he thinks AI will become smart enough to “out-think us in every way” in a chilling podcast last night.
The Tesla, SpaceX and Neuralink CEO was a guest on Artificial Intelligence with Lex Fridman where he discussed the narrowing divide between man and machine.
One of the troubling problems in AI is whether machines will ever be able to experience something like consciousness — awareness of existence — which many scientists argue is a purely biological phenomenon.
“The thing that I think is quite likely is that digital intelligence will be able to out-think us in every way and it will soon be able to simulate what we consider to be consciousness to a degree that you would not be able to tell the difference,” Musk said.
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“…It might as well be consciousness if we can simulate it perfectly?” Fridman then asked.
Musk continued: “If you can’t tell the difference, which is the Turing test… but think of a more advanced version of the Turing test.
“If you are talking to a digital super-intelligence and can’t tell if that is a computer or a human, let’s say if you’re having a conversation over the phone or a video conference, for instance, it looks like a person, makes all the right inflections, movements and all the small subtleties that constitute a human and talks like a human makes a mistake like a human… are you video conferencing with a person or an AI?
“It might as well be human."
Back in September, Musk issued a sombre warning that social media bots could be “evolving rapidly ” and needed investigation.
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He tweeted: “If advanced AI (beyond basic bots) hasn’t been applied to manipulate social media, it won’t be long before it is.”
A few minutes later he added: "Anonymous bot swarms deserve a closer examination.
"If they’re evolving rapidly, something’s up.”
Meanwhile, a potential benefit of AI would be a fairer justice system, according to a lawyer who thinks robot judges would be less biased than their fallible human counterparts.
AI has also been used in medicine to predict when someone will die more accurately than doctors, with the mechanism not yet fully understood.
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