Elon Musk says a lot of stupid things.
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The problem here is that current "a.i" is not a real a.i. Its just a word database, with a large index and a lot of loops and what if intergers.
wtf?
he is correct, there is no intelligence at all in current AI. it is purely about the perception of intelligence through the presentation of information in human like output. Effectively it is a lot of smart programming to hide the fact the program has no actual intelligence behind it. the "AI" has no capacity to reason or think at all.
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