Elon Musk Reacts To Old Video Of Writer Arthur Clarke Predicting About AI, Calls It...
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In the clip, the writer predicted that ''the most intelligent inhabitants of the future world won't be men or monkeys, they will be machines.''
Needless to say, Artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping the future of humanity across nearly every industry and changing the world around us. Now, a 59-year-old clip of acclaimed science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke predicting the future of AI has surfaced on Twitter, leaving internet users intrigued. Arthur C. Clarke about the future of AI.—21 September 1964[source, BBC Archive: https://t.co/u9RpXTrztK]pic.twitter.com/rccfoQlv42 Prescient https://t.co/Sw9fjbLnJR
Notably, the fiction writer was featured on a BBC telecast on September 21, 1964. In the clip, he predicted that ''the most intelligent inhabitants of the future world won't be men or monkeys, they will be machines. ''They will start to think and eventually, they will completely outthink their makers. We are now at the beginning of inorganic or mechanical evolution which will be thousands of times swifter,'' he added.
Watch the video here:
