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Re:Elon Musk: With artificial intelligence we are summoning ... by coldtea on Friday October 24, 2014 @11:03PM (#8507058)
>He leaves a vague foreshadowing of an existentialist threat. So we design these super intelligent machines, and avoid the Hollywood mistake so they don't (bizarrely) want to destroy us. Instead they solve our problems.

It's "existential" threat -- "existentialism" is a philosophy.

As for the "we avoid the Hollywood mistake", how exactly you propose we do that? The very idea about AI is that, beyond a level of sophistication, it can think and decide for itself.

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Re:Elon Musk: With artificial intelligence we are summoning ... by davidy123 on Saturday October 25, 2014 @09:40AM (#8508177)
Existential (ultimate existence) or existentialist (purpose and free will) are linked, particularly in a world benefiting from AI.

We avoid the Hollywood mistake by not relying on its visions, since it limits as much as it illuminates. Star Trek, for example, is a very shallow universe.

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Re:Elon Musk: With artificial intelligence we are summoning ... by coldtea on Sunday October 26, 2014 @01:30AM (#8510301)
Can you be a little more vague?
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