Bill Gates warns We Should Fear a Robot Uprising
Bill Gates warns We Should Fear a Robot Uprising
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  • 승인 2015.01.31 17:14
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  • Bill Gates has joined Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking in warning that AI poses a threat to humanity
  • In an AMA on Reddit he said he is 'concerned about super intelligence'
  • And he said he doesn't understand why some people are not concerned
  • He also revealed Microsoft was working on a virtual 'Personal Agent'
  • And he said if Microsoft hadn't worked, he would have gone into AI

In the past year experts including Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking have said the rise of ‘super-intelligent’ robots poses a threat to humanity.

And now Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, too, has joined the voices calling for caution. He said the rise of AI should be a concern, and he doesn't understand why people are not taking the threat seriously.

Taking part in an Ask Me Anything (AMA) Q&A session on Reddit, Mr Gates - who lives in the state of Washington, US - said: ‘I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence.

‘First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. That should be positive if we manage it well.

‘A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern. I agree with Elon Musk and some others on this and don't understand why some people are not concerned.’

It has been suggested that as robots become more advanced, and we ask them to perform more and more tasks, they may be unable to empathize with human ethics and morals.

Specifically, they may not be able to really understand right from wrong like a human does, no matter how safely we think we have programmed them. 

Back in December, Professor Hawking echoed Gates' sentiments, telling the BBC: 'The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.'

This followed claims he made earlier in the year when he said success in creating AI 'would be the biggest event in human history, [but] unfortunately, it might also be the last.'

In November, Elon Musk, the entrepreneur behind Space-X and Tesla, warned that the risk of 'something seriously dangerous happening' as a result of machines with artificial intelligence, could be in as few as five years. He has previously linked the development of autonomous, thinking machines, to 'summoning the demon'.

Speaking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) AeroAstro Centennial Symposium in October, Musk described artificial intelligence as our 'biggest existential threat'.

He said: 'I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful with artificial intelligence.

'I'm increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish.

'With artificial intelligence we're summoning the demon. You know those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram, and the holy water, and … he's sure he can control the demon Doesn't work out.'

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk


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