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by jorazzle 3216 days ago
Why? Elon just said AI is a bigger threat than North Korea.
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Artificial intelligence is a total misnomer. The current machine learning techniques that are becoming successful are better described as pattern recognition. A network that is designed to recognize kittens (or other stuff) is neither intelligent nor dangerous.
Elon says a lot of things!
Maybe he's just talking about his AIs when they're near bright white trucks on sunny days.
I don't think you can count that in the "many things he says" category, with how consistent and insistent he is with those statements over quite some time now.

That being said, I'm personally not sure if one should put too much weight on his opinions regarding that matter.