Elon Musk was said to be rendered \u201cspeechless\u201d when an AI guru pointed out a basic flaw in his plan to colonize Mars. <\/p>\n
Based on dozens of insider interviews, the New York Times<\/em><\/a> (NYT<\/em>) reported that Elon Musk met Google DeepMind cofounder, Demis Hassabis, in 2012.<\/p>\n The pair were at a conference that their shared investor, PayPal\u2019s infamous founder, Peter Thiel, had organized.<\/p>\n READ MORE! Watch SpaceX Falcon 9\u2019s amazing liftoff<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The pair soon began talking about the South African-born billionaire\u2019s plans to take humanity to Mars to escape global overpopulation and the other issues facing our planet.<\/p>\n The chat happened as he gave Hassabis a tour of the SpaceX headquarters. <\/p>\n The plans form part of the SpaceX Mars program, of which Musk is CEO and chief engineer \u2013 and the company has certainly had some failures amid its success<\/a>.<\/p>\n However Elon Musk was apparently left dumbfounded and speechless when Hassabis pointed out a basic flaw in his much-hyped scheme.<\/p>\n Musk recently had to eat crow (to a point) and discuss the Tesla Giga Factory incident when a robot \u2018attacked\u2019 a worker.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/a>SpaceX<\/a>SpaceX<\/p>\n Per the\u00a0NYT<\/em> retelling, Hassabis\u2019s plan was to get Elon Musk to fund his dream of creating artificial general intelligence (AGI) \u2013 and AI has only continued to become more powerful<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hassabis agreed that the Mar mission was a good idea but asked: what if AI surpassed human intelligence?<\/p>\n Wouldn\u2019t it be possible for it to easily follow us to Mars and pose a threat there too?<\/p>\n While he usually has a retort to everything, per the NYT, Musk was left \u201cspeechless\u201d.<\/p>\n It seems he hadn\u2019t considered that problems from Earth could simply follow human beings to the Red Planet.<\/p>\n <\/a>Planet Volumes \/ Unsplash<\/a>NASA \/ JPL-Caltech \/ ASU \/ MSSS<\/p>\n Soon after Musk invested in DeepMind, trashing the firm later as his \u201ctop concern\u201d when it came to AI.<\/p>\n Musk later spoke to the<\/em> NYT<\/em> <\/a>in 2020 and referenced the firm\u2019s early innovation in\u00a0AI that allowed it to beat humans at video games.<\/p>\n \u201cJust the nature of the AI that they\u2019re building is one that crushes all humans at all games,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI mean, it\u2019s basically the plotline in War Games<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Hassabis\u00a0recounted the conversation <\/a>to Musk biographer, Walter Isaacson.<\/p>\n He noted that, not only was Musk speechless, but he was also dumbfounded that he could have overlooked something in his SpaceX plans.<\/p>\n One thing\u2019s for sure: in spite of his losses<\/a>, Musk always seems to come out on top<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Elon Musk left \u2018speechless\u2019 after one flaw pointed out in Mars plans<\/a> appeared first on Supercar Blondie<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Elon Musk was said to be rendered \u201cspeechless\u201d when an AI guru pointed out a basic flaw in his plan to colonize Mars. Based on dozens of insider interviews, the New York Times (NYT) reported that Elon Musk met Google DeepMind cofounder, Demis Hassabis, in 2012. The pair were at a conference that their shared …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":44224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}