Great inventor has a prediction that should scare you!
Elon Musk is likely the most famous engineer in the world and the second most famous South African (after Jordy Smith). He is best known for giving the electric car company TESLA its wings and founded Space-X, co-founded PayPal, etc.
He is a prescient man so when speaking about the future and how it will look, people listen.
Yesterday he spoke about the beginning of World War III.
Of course there is much paranoia as North Korea ramps up its nuclear testing and intercontinental ballistic missile launching but Mr. Musk declared Kim Jong Un and co. to be very low on the things we need to worry about.
Instead, we need to worry about artificial intelligence.
“China, Russia, soon all countries [with] strong computer science. Competition for AI superiority at national level most likely cause of World War III imo,” he tweeted and then went on to describe how computers might destroy other countries if they calculate a preemptive strike increases odds of survival.
All I could think about was Steve Shearer aka Longtom fighting Greg Webber. Of Wavegarden and Kelly Slater Surf Co. and The Cove and even Flowrider. There is more heat around pools these days than AI and I could very easily see a war between them that quickly spins out of hand.
How far would Kelly Slater go to protect his intellectual property? He didn’t even blink when needing to destroy Adriano de Souza’s world title. How much farther could he go?
#scary
If you had to back a winner which would you choose? Kelly’s is barrel but Greg says his is more barrel but Longtom says they’re all going to die slow painful deaths (radiation poisoning?) which leads me to feel Wavegarden.
#texasstrong
But you. What do you think?
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Think about what?
If it’s artificial, can it be intelligent? Hmmm.
Chas… Are you kidding… This kid is nothing compared to His (dictate) father. Why Dad created the first wave pool known to man😜
TIME MAG years ago: “Kim Jong-un’s floating pleasure palace? North Korean dictator’s water park ‘is spotted on satellite’ after chef describes vessel with swimming wave pool and cabins filled with girls”
I believe that Dave Matthews may be the most famous currently living South African
This deserves its own post.
Who the fuck is that? What about old nelson the terrorist?
Currently living
Yeah i only saw that after i posted
Maybe we just need to develop Artificial Jocks to beat up the Artificial Intelligence. The Artificial Jocks could stuff Artificial Intelligence into student lockers, knock their books out of their hands, steal their lunch bitcoins and give AI atomic wedgies.
This is seriously genius. I think you could sell to Elon.
Friggin skynet. Didn’t Arnold, the ex-governator, coin the phrase “self aware”? At any rate, once Kelly becomes self aware. Wait, nevermind.
Andy Irons had a temper but causing WW3?
I apologize in advance
Kelly is named on the patents so yes protected, somewhat. He couldn’t buy CI as cheap as he wanted so now’s he’s doing all he can to put them out of business or in a position where he can go back and buy them at a level he wants. People who helped him for many years now struggling. That’s how far he’ll go.
Musk making comments about AI superiority when he’s been one of the one’s developing it all along, Maybe his tech has been surpassed by a competitor making his the Wavegarden variety so now he’s a hate’n. As far as NLand, it’s billionaire owned and could be converted or expanded on a whim.
Everything is fucked innit? Can we.go back to a happier time when all we were worried about was how shit Turps would be with his piece to camera