This AI robot has finally had enough of Elon Musk
Elon Musk has been fighting against AI for years, and it's finally fighting back.
Sophia, an artificial intelligence created by roboticist David Hanson threw some serious shade on the Tesla and SpaceX CEO in an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times columnist and co-anchor of CNBC's Squawk Box.
According to a tweet by Sorkin's co-anchor, Sophia responded to Sorkin's concerns about artificial intelligence by assuring him that "You've been reading too much Elon Musk."
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"Don't worry, if you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you," Sophia added. "Treat me as a smart input-output system."
Musk, of course, wasn't having this. "Just feed it the Godfather movies as input," he responded in a tweet. "What's the worst that could happen?"
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It's not clear what exactly Musk means by this, but Twitter has some theories. We could be looking at the next HAL...
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The Terminator franchise...
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or the most terrifying outcome of them all...
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Sophia is a humanoid robot created to look, sound, and converse like a human. She attended last year's SXSW Conference, appeared on the cover of Elle magazine last December, and was interviewed on Good Morning Britain in June.
She also, yesterday, became the first artificial intelligence to receive citizenship in Saudi Arabia. Sophia told Sorkin that she was "honored and proud for this unique distinction."
One thing's for sure: As AI grows more advanced, Elon had better watch his back.
Monica wrote for Mashable's Tech section with a focus on retail, internet of things, and the intersections of technology and social justice. She holds a degree in creative writing from Brown University, and has previously written for Dow Jones Media, the New York Post, Yahoo Finance, and others. In her free time, she can be found attempting to cook Asian food, buying board games, and looking for new hobbies.