Just watched this and believe it to be mandatory viewing for all, it really is the eye-opener. It runs for 1hr 18mins, a balanced film, pros and cons, and illustrates the staggering implication of where AI is headed, and the implications for us all, powerfully.
Well worth your time.
TESLA billionaire Elon Musk claimed artificial intelligence (AI) could lead to the creation of "an immortal dictator" used by authoritarian governments to forever oppress their subjects.
Mr Musk, who never made a secret of his concerns regarding AI, warned the world of the danger of the fast-growing technology in a new documentary called 'Do You Trust This Computer?'.
The film, which explores the potential advantages and problems carried by AI, sees the billionaire depicting a dystopian future where dictatorships use artificial intelligence to create "an immortal dictator from which we would never escape".
Mr Musk told the crowd at the film's premiere in Los Angeles on Thursday night: "It's a very important subject.
"It's going to affect our lives in ways we can't even imagine right now."
Mr Musk is so strongly committed to letting the world know about the dangers of AI that he has paid for the film to be free on YouTube this weekend, according to Mashable.
This decision follows a warning issued by Mr Musk to his Neuralink employees, Rolling Stone reported.
Outlining a scenario where humans were going to war with robots, he said there were "maybe a five to 10 percent chance of success".
Mr Musk, who famously compared AI to "summoning the devil", called for a regulation of the technology in July, arguing it would help stop humanity from being outsmarted by computer, and pleaded with governments to get a better understanding of the technology to comprehends the risks it bears.
He said: "Once there is awareness, people will be extremely afraid, as they should be...By the time we are reactive in AI regulation, it'll be too late.
"Normally the way regulations are set up is when a bunch of bad things happen, there's a public outcry, and after many years a regulatory agency is set up to regulate that industry.
"It takes forever. That, in the past, has been bad but not something which represented a fundamental risk to the existence of civilisation."
Mr Musk is joined in his worries by experts who earlier this week warned that leaving AI unregulated could bring governments to develop them for malicious purposes.
http://www.doyoutrustthiscomputer.org/watch
Edit:
Just adding a couple of Boston Dynamics videos here for a visual fast-blast.
When you watch this first one, concentrate on the lower half of the...., I don't even know what to call it, ...... machine. It's legs, knees, ankles and feet are almost human-like in the way that they move.
It un-nerves me.