Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk and hundreds of researchers are voicing out about the debate whether Artificial Intelligence is beneficial or harmful to human society.
A recent letter of the Future of Life Institute (FLI) about "Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence" signed by AI researchers offered a program expressing to protect mankind from the absolute threat of super intelligent AIs, according to Tech Investor.
The FLI letter was sent with signatures of hundreds of AI researchers besides that of Musk and Stephen Hawking that offers a program to protect humans from super intelligent AIs.
For the last 50 years, these AI researchers have promised to give the world advanced computers that are five years ahead of the current time. To name a few, IBM have promised to deliver a human brain functionality of a computer by 2018; its neuromorphic chips will allow the machine to function like a human brain. It is the same as the Apple Siri's brain-like computing functionalities, Wired reported.
Investments and funding for these AI researches still continue as Google hired Geoffrey Hinton from the University of Toronto to team up with Ray Kurzweil, who has joined the search engine giant primarily to develop Google Brain and upload his own brain into the Google supercomputer.
More investments include Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg having personally invested $55 million to hire Yann LeCunn to handle Vicarious and Baidu having invested $300 million in Andrew Ng's Deep Learning Lab in Stanford University.
An AI researcher shows that the human brain is very simple, assuming that it is simply a carbon version of a Von Neumann CPU, AI researcher Illya Sutskever from Google Brain told the source that "[The] brain absolutely is just a CPU and further study of brain would be a waste of my time."