A Skeptical Look at Elon Musk's AI Utopia
Our tech overlords tell us that artificial intelligence will soon create a world of abundance while solving our major problems such as climate change. This is a Star Trek version of the future, he explained.Musk's views exemplify the tech industry fantasy of a push-button, voice-activated future world of abundance portrayed in the many Star Trek television series and movies. If that happens, the interviewer wonders, how will companies make money?
- ▪Our tech overlords tell us that artificial intelligence will soon create a world of abundance while solving our major problems such as climate change.
- ▪This is a Star Trek version of the future, he explained.Musk's views exemplify the tech industry fantasy of a push-button, voice-activated future world of abundance portrayed in the many Star Trek television series and movies.
- ▪If that happens, the interviewer wonders, how will companies make money?
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- ▪ Elon Musk’s vision for AI — The Economist (latest)
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Our tech overlords tell us that artificial intelligence will soon create a world of abundance while solving our major problems such as climate change. Just so you know who I'm talking about, I have previously defined our tech overlords as "a grab bag of technology companies, technology scientists and inventors, and technology investors and journalists who have bewitched the modern world through inventions that speed up our daily lives without necessarily making them better."In a recent interview with The Economist magazine, tech overlord-in-chief Elon Musk explained that "[i]f you have vast numbers of robots with vast amounts of digital intelligence, you have a sort of a quasi-infinite economy." In such an economy, "anyone can have anything they think of." He added that "money won't…
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