[ucacian]

While I respect Elon for his accomplishments, as an AI enthusiast, I don't like his view on AI. My guess is that, he sees AI from physics and sci-fi point of view.

Max Tegmark, a famous physicist argues that AI is possible. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-tegmark/humanity-in-jeopar...

Just because something is possible in theory doesn't mean it is in practice.

Interestingly, many of the pessimistic views on AI come from non-computer scientists such as economists, physicists, and philosophers. I wonder whether they have ever actually read a textbook on AI or machine learning instead of just thinking at a high level. If they have, they should have appreciated how hard AI actually is.

[mcv]

The thing I, as a former AI student, don't like about these kind of discussions, is that "AI" is taken to mean Strong AI, human level AI. It's not. We already have lots of AI, and none of it is human level. And we don't need human-like AI, because we already have billions of human-level intelligences in this world. We're better off making computers do stuff we hate and are bad at, and not the stuff we're good at or enjoy.