Do you fall into Elon's camp or think some people are worrying too much?
https://www.inverse.com/article/43340-c ... um=inverse
:Elon Musk is concerned about the future of humanity. The tech entrepreneur shared a link with his 21 million Twitter followers Friday morning, urging them to watch Chris Paine’s latest movie Do You Trust This Computer?. Musk wrote that “nothing will affect the future of humanity more than digital super-intelligence,” while paying homage to the late Stephen Hawking that shared the same concerns.
Paine’s movie, available for free streaming until Sunday night, looks at how machine intelligence has become a pervasive part of everyday lives. It also explores how users trust smartphones and social networking with their data, an issue that’s seen newfound attention in recent weeks as it emerged that Cambridge Analytica may have harvested 87 million Facebook users’ data. Paine shared a trailer for the movie on its Facebook page — unlike Musk, it seems Paine has yet to fully sign up to the #DeleteFacebook movement spurred by the Cambridge Analytica scandal
There is a link in the article but for those who are inept or lazy, here you go.
http://doyoutrustthiscomputer.org/watch
I wish people were having daily conversations about this stuff in my small social circle ...online or otherwise .... as a species we are at the point of no return. We cannot go back. We cannot undo. We are on a path that we have no control over and our very near future is the stuff of movies. It is enthralling, exciting, fascinating and damned effin scary. And so many do not give it much thought. I think because it is so overwhelming. When we start to ponder the path we are on, our minds quickly slide into what seem to be worse case scenarios for all but those with cash and the small set of required skills...ever shrinking.
We are the frogs in the slowly heating water.
Is it even possible to try to maintain some degree of control? Philosophy at its finest.