Washington thinktank claims SpaceX founder,Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking, are contributing to ‘alarmist’ concern approximately machine intelligenceIt has been a remarkable year for Elon Musk, and the CEO of the high-end electric car company Tesla and SpaceX,which on Monday announced that it had successfully launched and then returned a rocket to soil.
His pioneering contribution towards cheaper, and less resource-intensive transportation means he is generally considered one of technology’s most successful innovators. Yet Musk has just been labelled “a luddite” by a Washington-based policy thinktank the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, and which shortlisted him for its annual Luddite Awards.
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Source: theguardian.com