An Elon Musk With Gravitas? Don't Be Too Sure.
I really have no comment to make on his recernt dire predictions about artificial intelligence -- either he doesn't understand it very well, or I don't, but this is a guy who has something like ten kids, all parented via surrogacy from what we can tell, along with an additional bunch of frozen embryos he made with Amber Heard. Allegedly. I'm going to trust my judgment over his in practically any matter, including what to do with Twitter. On the other hand, he's unexpectedly said something smart : Musk told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that “if anyone would know about aliens on Earth it would probably be me.” “To the best of my knowledge, we see no evidence of conscious life anywhere in the universe,” Musk said. “So it might be there. You know, in physics they call it sort of the Fermi paradox after when Enrico Fermi, he’s an amazing physicist, asked the fundamental question, where are the aliens?” “I’ve seen no evidence of aliens,” Musk said, adding that i...