Mark Zuckerberg Argues Against Elon Musk’s View of Artificial Intelligence… Again

When it comes to artificial intelligence, Mark Zuckerberg is more of a glass-half-full guy whereas Elon Musk sees the glass as half empty.Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, wrote a post Tuesday evening in which he shared his optimism over the rise of AI technologies like deep learning and how they could lead to breakthroughs in areas like healthcare and self-driving cars. Normally, this wouldn’t be noteworthy, considering it’s pretty obvious Zuckerberg views the rise of AI through rose-tinted glasses. The CEO has made AI a big priority for his company by hiring one of the pioneers of deep learning, Yann LeCun, as its AI research chief. Zuckerberg also created a special Facebook unit whose mission is to incorporate cutting-edge AI research into its products, and his company regularly releases research papers that highlight progress Facebook is making in AI. Get Data Sheet, Fortune’s technology newsletter. Given that the Facebook (fb) CEO is clearly a believer in AI, why is he going further out of his way to express enthusiasm over the technology, when his company’s actions speak loudly enough? Left unsaid by Zuckerberg were recent comments made by Elon Musk on Tuesday in which the Tesla (tsla) and SpaceX (spacex) CEO publicly…


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