I don't know why you sent me two separate PMs saying you "don't think I program a lick" and I'm everything wrong with the forums, instead of saying it here, but alright I guess.
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Originally Posted by leavesofliberty
This is what I actually said.
You can learn this by watching only a few lectures on ML on coursera.org, which I have. I never pretended to do anything more than that. IMO Elon Musk is promoting hysteria.
Actually, you said some other things:
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"I should have said people who study machine learning, which I currently am doing. It's plaingly obvious that we're nowhere near truly intelligent autonomous living AI, but there are great implications for discovering cures for cancer, optimizing the efficiency of the stock market and more."
"They are alike in that they weren't based on evidence, and also the dangers were quite foreseeable, and laypeople were fooled en mass by the hysterical nutjobs."
"You have to demystify what AI means, because there's the sci-fi edition, and where we are actually at." The milestones to see what a super AI will do aren't even there yet, so it's a lot of speculation. What makes Musk's comments so reprehensible is that he is populating fears based on a dystopian nightmare, science fiction.
I mean, we get it, you're interested in this field. But do you think you're the only person outside of the Programming forum who actually codes? I've completed the majority of of Andrew Ng's ML course on coursera - and I wouldn't even begin to think that gives me any kind of higher ground for discussing the future of AI.
If you think Musk is crazy that's fine (I might even agree). My point is that you make more comments than anyone on these forums (not just that thread) about how you're studying AI and how non-coders simply don't understand it on your level. If you're doing PhD-level research or working with one of the few companies that is actually innovating in AI (as opposed to applying the same ML algorithms to a new vertical), then maybe that's justified.
If you're fumbling around with some toy data sets in Scikit-Learn, then try and relax with the whole appeal-to-non-existent-authority thing.