Artificial Intelligence
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk talked recently with Recode's Kara Swisher and The Verge's Walt Mossberg about his plans to send a one-way rocket to Mars in 2018 and his analysis that we are all probably living in a computer simulation if you consider the math.
Onstage recently at the Code Conference, SpaceX and Tesla CEO, Elon Musk explained to the crowd why it's entirely possible, if not likely, that our existence is really a simulation being run by a highly advanced civilization.
"Given that we’re clearly on a trajectory that we’re going to have games that are indistinguishable from reality."
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Musk has already shown himself to be a follower of the ideas of Nick Bostrom with regards to artificial intelligence. Bostrom clearly influenced Musk to co-found and fund the non-profit artificial intelligence research company, OpenAI, with the aims of promoting and developing open-source friendly AI in such a way as to benefit, rather than harm, humanity as a wholeBostrom also has presented one of the best laid out argument of why there is a high likelihood that we are living in a computer simulation.
According to Musk, "The strongest argument for us being in a simulation is the following: 40 years ago, we had Pong. Two rectangles and a dot. Now, 40 years later, we have photorealistic 3D with millions playing simultaneously."
He continues, "If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality, even if that rate of advancement drops by 1000 from what it is now. It's a given that we’re clearly on a trajectory that we’re going to have games that are indistinguishable from reality. It would seem to follow that the odds that we’re in base reality is 1 in millions."
See the must-watch full interview below.
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