Musk tweeted and satirized artificial intelligence: the essence of machine learning is statistics.

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Xiao Zhan cut, rain and snow carrying the clues delivery! CTOnews.com, June 12 (Xinhua)-- Tesla CEO, the world's richest man, and Elon Musk, chief technology officer (CTO) of Twitter, recently posted a picture on their personal Twitter, the theme of which is intended to satirize the current situation of "artificial intelligence" and point out that the essence of machine learning is statistics.

The picture is a four-frame cartoon in which someone asks a passer-by wearing a "Machine Learning" mask, "Hey, artificial intelligence, why are you always wearing that mask?" And took off his mask, only to find a face with "Statistics" under it, so he closed the mask and said, "then keep wearing it."

As of 11:30 Beijing time on June 12, the tweet had garnered 354000 likes, 46000 retweets, 10,000 comments and 37.432 million page views. This tweet seems to satirize the current phenomenon of constant hype about "artificial intelligence" around the world.

CTOnews.com noted that Musk had signed an open letter with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and thousands of AI researchers calling for a moratorium on more advanced AI technology. However, the letter was questioned by many experts and even signers, accusing them of aggravating AI hype, fake signatures and distorting papers.

"A more powerful AI system should be developed only if we are convinced that the impact of AI is positive and the risks are manageable," the letter wrote. Therefore, we call on all AI labs to immediately suspend the training of AI systems that are more powerful than GPT-4 for at least 6 months. AI Labs and independent experts should use this time to jointly develop and implement a set of shared security protocols designed and developed by advanced AI, which are strictly audited and supervised by independent external experts. "