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But how can one think that Mark's understanding of "sci-fi AI" is limited? We're so far from any of it that at this point it's all speculation about what could or could not happen.

If I have a theory that humans will evolve into separate species, I can't say someone else's understanding on the matter is limited.

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Limited in a sense that he's saying Musk is being irresponsible and then talking about the simpler machine learning problems that can be solved [1] when Musk's warning is really about the super intelligence piece.

The main problem is the term AI is overloaded and overused so it creates confusion.

Musk is not against the machine learning approach to solving a new class of useful problems (though replacing a lot of current human jobs and the political risk associated with that is an issue to think about)

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/24/mark-zuckerberg-elon-musks-do...

"Has limited understanding" is definitely not the wording I'd chose to mean "is talking of something different," but I see how it could be.

Surveys of the field consistently show a majority expecting less than a century, and people focused on the problem less than 50.

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