Google's AI Boss Blasts Musk's Scare Tactics on Machine Takeover
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Elon Musk is the most-famous Cassandra of artificial intelligence. The Tesla Inc. chief routinely drums up the technology’s risks in public and on Twitter, where he recently called the global race to develop AI the "most likely cause" of a third world war.
Researchers at Google, Facebook Inc. and other AI-focused companies find this irritating. John Giannandrea, the head of search and AI at Alphabet Inc.’s Google, took one of the clearest shots at Musk on Tuesday -- all while carefully leaving him unnamed.