Google Executive Chairman Says Fears of AI Misguided

[mrengine]

Both Hawking and Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, have recently expressed their thoughts on artificial intelligence's future. Their views could be summed up as: "Do we know what on earth we're doing?'

Schmidt, however, said there's no darkness looming here. Indeed, he compared artificial intelligence to looming of a different era.

"Go back to the history of the loom," Schmidt said onstage at the conference, according to Wired. "There was absolute dislocation, but I think all of us are better off with more mechanized ways of getting clothes made."

[cnet.com...]

My thoughts...

Imagine a world in which energy, food and other resources are limited. Imagine how Google's algorithm could be used to rank who is to get what out of these limited resources. Yes, that's far fetched. But so is comparing modern day artificial intelligence to how clothes were made years ago.

[Swanny007]

"Google's brain will rid us of the need to think too much or even wonder what we should do next."

[netmeg]

I don't have a lot of faith in Schmidt's brain.

[RedBar]

I know nothing...and I haven't known that for very long!

[londrum]

i don't mind robots if they are going to be like Metal Mickey and R2D2. it's when they go nuts like that Arnold Schwarzenegger one that I worry

[superclown2]

I don't have a lot of faith in Schmidt's brain.

It's efficient enough to have help build a multi billion dollar company from nothing.

Not a man to be underestimated.