Musk tweeted a satire on artificial intelligence: The essence of machine learning is statistics

IT House News on June 12, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, Tesla CEO and Twitter Chief Technology Officer (CTO), recently posted a picture on his personal Twitter. The theme of the picture is intended to Satirize the current situation of "artificial intelligence" and point out that the essence of machine learning is statistics.

The picture is in the form of a four-frame comic. In the comic, someone asks a passerby wearing a "Machine Learning" mask, "Hey, artificial intelligence, why do you always wear that mask?", And took off his mask, only to find a face with "Statistics" written underneath the mask, so he closed the mask and said, "Then let's continue wearing it."

As of 11:30 am Beijing time on June 12, this tweet has received 354,000 likes, 46,000 retweets, 10,000 comments, and received 37.432 million views. This tweet seems to be satirizing the current phenomenon of "artificial intelligence" being constantly hyped around the world.

IT House noted that Musk had signed an open letter with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and thousands of AI researchers, calling for a moratorium on research into more advanced AI technologies. However, this letter was questioned by many experts and even signatories, and was accused of exacerbating AI hype, forging signatures, and distorting papers.

The letter reads: "More powerful AI systems should be developed only when we are convinced that the impact of AI is positive and the risks are controllable. Therefore, we call on all AI laboratories to immediately suspend At least 6 months to train AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. AI labs and independent experts should use this time to jointly develop and implement a set of shared security protocols for advanced AI design and development by independent Strict audit and supervision by external experts.”

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