May 24 news, Thursday local time, Tesla Elon, CEO· Musk (Elon Musk) participated in the VivaTech technical conference held in Paris, France, via video link, and shared his dystopian view of the future.
When an audience asks artificial intelligence When he expressed his concern about whether artificial intelligence would eventually replace Mask and take away jobs, Mask answered this question in a way close to science fiction.
Musk said: "In the best case, we may not need to work." He continued, in such a situation, we will not only have a common basic income, but also have a common high income. There will be no shortage of goods and services. "
He described a future scenario that he thought was "most likely", in which people will live with intelligent robots and lead a rich life. He stressed that in the future, it will not only be universal basic income, but also "universal high income". However, in the future where there is no problem of money and work, Musk proposed an existential problem, that is, human beings lack the purpose of life.
Musk added: "If computers and robots can do better than you, then... what's the meaning of your life? In this benign situation, this is a real problem."
In the short term, AI will undoubtedly pose a threat to the employment of low - and middle-income people. This does not mean that AI can complete the work perfectly like human beings, but some company executives really want to see the performance of AI and have tried it. For example, it is reported that Duolingo has cut several translators due to its switch to AI.
Nvidia is also working with a company to develop artificial intelligence nurses with an operating cost of only $9 per hour. In the absence of a generally high income and adequate social security network, these changes may have an immediate negative impact on the affected groups. In his answer, Musk did not directly respond to these concerns, but instead discussed how people find meaning in their lives by giving meaning to artificial intelligence systems.
He then explained: "Think about the working principle of our brain. We have the limbic system that controls instinct and emotion, and the cerebral cortex that is responsible for thinking and planning. Interestingly, the cerebral cortex is always trying to satisfy the limbic system. Maybe the same is true for artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence tries to satisfy our cerebral cortex, while the cerebral cortex tries to make our marginal system happy. It may be precisely the meaning and purpose that we give AI its existence. "
Musk further said that he believed that this reality was most likely close to the scene described in the Scottish science fiction writer Iain Banks' Culture series. These novels depict a society in which human beings and artificial intelligence coexist harmoniously and jointly create a "post scarcity" economy. These science fiction works in the 1980s had a profound impact on Musk. Another work he often mentioned was The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Near the end of his speech, Musk frankly said that his biggest fear was, in a word, "artificial intelligence". He also mentioned that he was very interested in the existing OpenAI Google The biggest concern of Meta's AI systems is that these systems "do not seek the truth to the greatest extent", but are too politically correct.
Although Musk recently signed an open letter calling for the suspension of AI development for the public interest, he has now passed his AI Startups XAI and the chat robot Grok joined the speed race. He believes that his company is the only AI company that can save mankind from the threat of other companies, although all AI start-ups describe themselves in this way. (small)
