Paranoia?

[BikerDude]

The latest tech "guru" to speak out about the dangers of artificial intelligence is business magnate Elon Musk.

Elon Reeve Musk  is a South Africa-born, Canadian American business magnate, inventor, and investor. He is the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO and chief product architect of Tesla Motors, and chairman of SolarCity. He is the founder of SpaceX and cofounder of PayPal, Tesla Motors, and Zip2.

Lately he's been controversial with his statements about AI.
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-elon-musk-is-right-to-be-worried-about-killer-robots-2014-11

For months, billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has been warning the world that developments in artificial intelligence could cause robots to become hostile to humans.

It all started in June when Musk explained why he invested in artificial intelligence company DeepMind. He said that he likes to "keep an eye on what's going on with artificial intelligence" because he believes there could be a "dangerous outcome" there. "There have been movies about this, you know, like Terminator," Musk said.

But Musk's warnings didn't end there. He's gone on to suggest that robots could delete humans like spam, and even said in a since-deleted comment that killer robots could arrive within five years.

But is Musk right about the threat of AI? We asked Louis Del Monte ? who has written about AI and is a former employee of IBM and Honeywell's microelectronics units ?   whether robots really will kill us all.

"Musk is correct," Del Monte said, "killer robots are already a reality and will proliferate over the next five or ten years."

Holy fucking crap man!
Maybe Bill Joy wasn't crazy after all. Joy was the first to came out with warnings about this years ago after he had retired as founder of Sun Microsystems to his  subterranean lair to plot all sorts of mysterious things. At the time he sounded like a lunatic.
But of course he is a super genius. For real. His accomplishments are legendary. He wrote the first implementation of TCP/IP. He was called before DARPA(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) who were curious how this college kid had done in a week what their engineers had been working on for years with less than marvelous results.

BBN had a big contract to implement TCP/IP, but their stuff didn't work, and grad student Joy's stuff worked. So they had this big meeting and this grad student in a T-shirt shows up, and they said, "How did you do this?" And Bill said, "It's very simple ? you read the protocol and write the code."

Bill Joy on the dangers of technology...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN2shXeJNz8
Original Wired article.
http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html
NY Times article
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/06/magazine/06ENCOUNTER.html
Another long interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpZEmpOwPkg

In 2000, Joy gained notoriety with the publication of his article in Wired Magazine, "Why the future doesn't need us", in which he declared, in what some have described as a "neo-Luddite" position[citation needed], that he was convinced that growing advances in genetic engineering and nanotechnology would bring risks to humanity. He argued that intelligent robots would replace humanity, at the very least in intellectual and social dominance, in the relatively near future. He advocates a position of relinquishment of GNR (genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics) technologies, rather than going into an arms race between negative uses of the technology and defense against those negative uses (good nano-machines patrolling and defending against Grey Goo "bad" nano-machines). This stance of broad relinquishment was criticized by technologists such as technological-singularity thinker Ray Kurzweil, who instead advocates fine-grained relinquishment and ethical guidelines.[8][9] Joy was also criticized by the conservative American Spectator, which characterized Joy's essay as a (possibly unwitting) rationale for statism.[9]

A bar-room discussion of these technologies with Ray Kurzweil started to set Joy's thinking along this path. He states in his essay that during the conversation, he became surprised that other serious scientists were considering such possibilities likely, and even more astounded at what he felt was a lack of considerations of the contingencies. After bringing the subject up with a few more acquaintances, he states that he was further alarmed by what he felt was the fact that although many people considered these futures possible or probable, that very few of them shared as serious a concern for the dangers as he seemed to. This concern led to his in-depth examination of the issue and the positions of others in the scientific community on it, and eventually, to his current activities regarding it.

Despite this, he is a venture capitalist, investing in GNR technology companies.[10][citation needed] He has also raised a specialty venture fund to address the dangers of pandemic diseases, such as the H5N1 avian influenza and biological weapons.

Lotta in's and out's here...

[DigitalBuddha]

I wonder when Skynet will become self aware?

[Hominid]

Wave of the future dude... 

[Reverend Al]

Uh-huh.  Well, I still jerk off manually.

[DigitalBuddha]

Uh-huh.  Well, I still jerk off manually.

And proud we are...

[Reverend Al]

Uh-huh.  Well, I still jerk off manually.

And proud we are...