The issues would include teaching AI to learn what humans want, aligning robots’ interests with our own, and keeping AI completely under human control. Now Elon Musk donated millions to the Future of Life Institute and the organization is further funding a research group working to keep Artificial Intelligence (AI) “robust and beneficial”.
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The founder of Tesla and SpaceX gifted the Future of Life Institute a total of $10 million in January.
The research should help provide a clearer idea of how humans and artificial intelligence can work together, such as outlining the ways a financial AI programme can explain its suggestion for an innovative investment strategy, Tegmark said. The 37 winning projects focus on protecting humankind from what Musk considers the “biggest existential threat” to our existence – Artificial Intelligence. The research orientation of the grant winners indicate a focus on practical issues in AI, which distinguishes it from the Hollywood-favored theme of machines rising against humans. Elon Musk worries that is indeed a concern, and he is backing grants to keep that from happening. CDA News reported in May that prof. The movie uses some form of AI which is given control to use nuclear weapons in an attempt to wipe out the human race.
With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon. “I agree with Elon Musk and some others on this and don’t understand why some people are not concerned”.
Elon Musk-backed organization awarded millions of dollars to 37 projects so humanity can reap the benefits of AI, while avoiding AI related risks.
Jaan Tallin, one of the founding members of the FLI and the guy that wrote the original version of Skype, said of the new research, “building advanced AI is like launching a rocket”.
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“There is this race going on between the growing power of the technology and the growing wisdom with which we manage it”, FLI president Max Tegmark told Bloomberg. Fortune reports that the projects aim to explore issues such as legal ramifications that could arise from computers operating independently in society. An additional $1.2 million has been funded from the Open Philanthropy Project. FLI has awarded the fund to research teams that will be tasked with exploring risks associated with Artificial Intelligence. And the amount for the awards is from that donation.
