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Cool. Judging from his statements, he has very limited knowledge of the current state-of-the-art in AI. Because he is a great entrepreneur, has knowledge of other domains, people think he must know what he is saying about AI too.

Edit: Original title had Elon Musk on it. My comment refers to him.

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Do you want only experts in the field on your board? It looks like they had Elon on the board to inform what to research. His company has a bunch of data and motivation for AI research in general. Not many experts have domain knowledge that he has.

That is a separate issue. His comments made the incredibly talented researchers at OpenAI look really bad. I suspect this is one of the prime reasons he is leaving.

Have some examples of how he made them look really bad? Not disputing, just curious.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/7ftxow/d_e...

I don't know. I think automated driving is a big use case, even if I don't necessarily agree with his very pessimistic view of AI.

Likewise, I'm tired of hearing about what Bill Gates thinks about such and such big problem. Just because he was clever at manipulative business dealings pushing 2nd rate OSes and milking billions from tax players, doesn't mean he knows much about anything else.

He has a charitable foundation since 2000 backed by billions of dollars and he has the ability to talk with a lot of experts.

Please do some searching on the internet about what Gates knows about. There are many articles and first hand accounts of the array of experts and topics he familiarizes himself with.[0] He astounds high level researchers with his domain knowledge.

[0]https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...

I believe the GP forgot /sarcasm tag

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