One of the reasons conservatives are so upset about this U.S. election has a lot to do with high-tech companies. But there is one high-tech company owner who is also very unhappy with the performance of these high-tech companies as well: Elon Musk (Elon Musk). He not only quit Facebook, but also tweeted to criticize the social media blockade. Someone suggested to him, “Why don’t you make a social media?” He replied that he had already donated a lot of money to Singal and would donate more in the future. He said donate, not invest.
As a result, investors bought heavily into Signal Advance, another obscure OTC company, causing the stock price of this small, unrelated company to increase 12-fold in 2 days. The company’s stock soared nearly 527% on Dec. 7, and then soared another 91% the next day, sending the stock price from $0.60 per share all the way up to $7.19, or nearly 1,100%, and raising the company’s market value to $660 million from $55 million 2 days earlier.
After the incident, Signal App was also quick to clarify, “We can understand people wanting to invest in Signal that has achieved record growth, but this (Signal Advance) is not us, we are an independent non-profit organization whose only investment is in protecting your privacy.”
But this event highlights two facts, the first is how much Americans now look forward to a social media that is not related to those big money (we all know who we’re talking about) and the second is how much influence this Elon Musk has.
Musk himself is very unhappy with much of the media now.
More than two years ago, a media outlet called Reveal News reported that there were safety problems all over tesla‘s factories. It said that Tesla had frequent safety incidents, that there was yellow tape everywhere, the kind of tape used to seal off the scene after an accident, and that the forklifts in Tesla factories never made BB sounds.
Musk was so angry that he tweeted that these were all lies, but they were reported as “facts” by Reveal. Musk threatened to launch a website that would give each journalist a credit score, which he believes is necessary because journalists are under constant pressure to earn maximum advertising dollars (or risk being fired). The site, which could be called Pravda (Czech: truth), would allow the public to score the core facts of any article and track the credit score of every reporter, editor and every publication, he said. Even if the public doesn’t care, journalists, editors and publications do.
We don’t know if he has since set up such a website, but according to The Hill, this is not the first time Musk has fired at the media, and he has previously denounced negative media coverage of his company. Musk once wrote to someone saying, “Anytime anyone criticizes the media, the media screams, ‘You’re just like Trump. Why did Trump get elected in the first place? Because no one trusts you [the media] anymore. You lost your credibility a long time ago.”
But in reality, Musk has had far fewer arguments with the media than he has with high-tech companies. Most famously, it’s his argument with Facebook’s Zuckerberg about artificial intelligence AI.
Musk warned after his 2017 Google computer Go victory over the top human player that AI should be slowed down and should be regulated by an international body, or at least a national government, or AI would spell disaster for humanity. These statements, of course, pose a threat to those big companies.
There are a lot of AI innovation companies, and last year, there was a selection of the top 100 most promising AI companies in the world, and more than 60% of them are in the United States, but the AI talent is mainly of Chinese descent. AI is actually machine learning and then decision making. Just like playing Go, the computer doesn’t know anything, but it can learn at high speed day and night, so it can beat human masters after a few days.
Then in other fields, it is actually the same, that is, the computer can learn, and then like playing chess, defeat humans. But this learning, it needs data, because the computer can not go to the ground to see how human farming, and then learn, it can only learn from the data. Someone has to turn all kinds of agricultural problems, agricultural technology, agricultural farming, soil and watering, etc. into data, and then the computer can learn.
So, data is the basis of AI, this data, in fact, is big data, everything is data.
Now big data companies, in the United States is mainly so few: Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and Apple. Let’s take a look at this list, and what does the election have to do with it?
Musk’s comments about AI have drawn criticism from Zuckerberg, which is not surprising. Musk believes that humans nowadays are, in fact, half-man, half-machine human-machine complexes. It’s scary to say, but think carefully, we now have a cell phone, where to go with where, as long as you leave the phone for five minutes, the whole body feel awkward, uncomfortable. There are others, computers, not to mention household appliances, and soon most of them are online, and then it is difficult to live without these machines. But after the Internet, your life becomes data, it becomes a computer learning material, into a part of the big data, and finally became a node of the AI, necessarily subject to the AI moderation and jurisdiction.
This is probably Musk’s idea. He fears a world war, not because of North Korea’s nuclear weapons, but because of artificial intelligence (AI).
He said, “North Korea can go backward in the list of risks currently facing human civilization.” “National-level AI competition is most likely to lead to World War III.”
Musk replied to a Twitter user saying, “AI could start a war if it believes a preemptive attack is the most likely path to victory.”
Musk has repeatedly warned about the threat of AI, calling for regulatory measures to be put in place to safeguard public safety.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, on the other hand, disagrees with Musk.
Zuckerberg argued that Musk’s apocalyptic remarks about artificial intelligence were “very irresponsible. Musk shot back that Zuckerberg’s understanding of the issue was “limited.
Musk has created two new companies to study artificial intelligence: OpenAI, a nonprofit artificial intelligence research company, and Neuralink, a brain-machine interface startup.
“I’ve been sounding the AI alarm for a long time, but apparently it hasn’t had any impact.” Musk said at the Neuralink launch meeting, “So I said, OK, then we have to try to develop it in a benign way.” Last month, Musk joined forces with several experts in artificial intelligence to send a letter to the United Nations calling for a ban on “killer robots.”
But in reality, the AI killing game has already begun, and every major country in the world is working on the idea that automated weapons, combined with AI, will be the spine of the next war. Humans may have to wait until after the next war disaster to really realize the horror of AI, but it is difficult to say whether it will be in time to solve these problems.
Now, another kind of war is actually already underway.
Musk believes that “we are all like a node on a network, a leaf on a big tree. We’re all feeding the network. As those questions are asked and answered, we’re collectively programming AI. Google and all the people connected to it become one giant network system integrated. This also applies to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and all social media.”
In response Musk said, “It’s like we’re the biological starter program for AI and we’re creating it. We’re gradually creating a higher intelligence. The percentage of this intelligence that is not human is increasing, and eventually we [humans] will represent only a small fraction of this intelligence.”
Musk expressed sadness at this prospect, so he set up a company to work on brain-computer interfaces. According to him, it means that since he cannot be defeated and there is no way to stop him, he will join him. This is the logic of an American philosophy of pragmatism. Brain-machine interface, that is, the human brain and the Internet have become one, the human brain has become a node of the whole big AI system, but the slowest part, the interface between the head and the machine part, has become a bottleneck in the flow of data, so he wants to study a technology that can connect the head and the machine directly, data faster.
In fact, this is also very scary, after the computer virus, can directly into the human brain la.
But Musk is not optimistic about the future of humanity on Earth, he wants to go to Mars and build a new human society.
I am not exaggerating. Immigration to Mars, is Musk’s idea since childhood, he is a dreamer, but not just a dream, and is doing it step by step, and also very successful.
Musk’s two most important companies, one is Tesla and one is SpaceX. tesla goes public, but SpaceX does not. The reason for going public is simple: it needs more investors to invest and then provide products or services with the goal of making a profit. The reason for not going public is also simple, do not want others to control, do not need others to invest in expanding production, but also be able to make a lot of money.
The former is Tesla, the latter is SpaceX. the investment community’s favorite and most valued, is the so-called unicorn company, is the entire field, only he a company. Obviously, Tesla is not, and many companies produce electric cars. And SpaceX, we can say so, is a real 100% as fake as the world’s only unicorn company.
Recently, SpaceX just got another contract from the U.S. Department of Defense, specializing in surveillance of national satellites and missiles. This is a job that no other company in Silicon Valley can do, and no private company in the world would dare to imagine.
SpaceX has a plan, the Starlink program, to launch tens of thousands of low-orbit satellites to provide Internet service to the world. Let’s put it this way, if satellites can provide high-speed Internet access, the future of various Internet infrastructure are abolished, the satellite will become the largest Internet base station. There are many reasons, here we do not go into this matter. But the key is the cost of launching satellites to be very low, this point, SpaceX did, other companies, or other countries, such as the United States NASA, such as China’s General Administration of Space, can not do, at least now can not do. So we say that SpaceX is the only unicorn company in the world that is truly 100 percent as fake.
The company, however, is a continuation of Musk’s childhood dream of going to Mars.
In an interview, Musk once talked about the endless flow of ideas in his head, which seemed like a “never-ending explosion”. He said, “When I was five or six years old, I thought I was crazy.” He says he compares himself to other kids: “Obviously, their minds didn’t explode all the time.” He even worries that his different self will be taken away from him by adults.
So he says, “I don’t think most people would want to be me.”
I’m reminded of Stephen Chow’s movie line, “You go back to Mars, Earth is too dangerous.”
There’s also a lot of talk about whether Musk is a Martian, whether he’s an alien. His advice to us humans is interesting: “It may sound cliché, but the answer is ‘love.’ There’s no harm in having more love in the world.”
He says, “It might just mean spending more time with friends and less on social media.” “I think people should be nicer to each other and give more trust to others and not assume people are bad before they do bad things. It’s easy to demonize people.”
The conclusion is, love and tolerance.
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