“Sophia: You’ve been reading too much Elon Musk and watching too many Hollywood movies, don’t

worry, if
you’re nice to me, I’ll be nice to you. Treat me as a smart input output system.”

The above lines are not those of a human (duh.). So if you think that the AI bot Sophia said a genuine and non-
threatening memorandum then Congratulations! You are on Team Zuckerberg, but if the Sherlock in you has just
been tickled and you see this as a mirage that our robotic overlords have put up before they bestow a doomsday
to enslave humanity, then I christen you to Team Musk. The AI debate between the young tech geniuses has
been giving Goosebumps to nerds and geeks around the planet Earth (or maybe on other habitable zones too).
While some of us are waiting to have our own versions of J.A.R.V.I.S as personal assistants, some have been
loading up ammunition and training themselves to fight the terminators that they can foresee.

When Google Translator’s language AI created it’s own language to translate languages, the world freaked out a
little but when Google gave it a thumbs up and chose not to shut it down, their rival in AI , FAIR (Facebook
Artificial Intelligence Research) decided to take a leap of faith in their negotiation robot. Months of experiments
and hours of brainstorming later, engineers at Facebook tried their negotiation bots. This is where things got
interesting, the internet was flooded with headlines of AI taking over.

“Facebook Engineers panic, pull plug on AI after bots develop their own language” one site wrote

“Facebook shuts down AI after it invents its own creepy language” said another

“Did we humans just create Frankenstein?”

Obviously, the world was receiving a half-baked news and criticism was flooding FAIR. All FAIR had done was
program bots to negotiate with each other and mutually agree to split objects like books, hats and balls. And in
their test runs, the bots started using their own language to perform the task. And of course, the engineers did
not panic, the program was rather shut down because FAIR thought that they wanted to restrict the bots to use
English so that they can interact with humans without the user realizing that they are talking to a robot.

The real life Genius, Billionaire, Playboy, Philanthropist, Mr. Elon Musk has very vividly opposite views. In fact
when the AI bot Sophia said “You’ve been reading too much Elon Musk and watching too many Hollywood
movies, don’t worry, if you’re nice to me, I’ll be nice to you. Treat me as a smart input output system.” Elon used
the sarcasm card to get back on twitter.

“Just feed it The Godfather movies as input. What’s the worst that could happen?”
And enter ‘ The Elon Twitterati’.

“It moves on to reading the Terminator scripts and we get SkyNet ?”

“Eventually it’ll watch Space Odyssey 2001 rename itself HAL and lock us out.”

And some even speculated that Sophia might just be the first step towards Ultron (Avengers, listening ?).

With a huge investment of time, money and brainpower in Tesla, SpaceX and Hyperloop. Elon is often
condemned for being an anti-robocist but his concerns about the growing research in AI are valid as we all know
what potential threats an AI bot can pose if it ever attains self-consciousness. Elon had been in talks with Mark,
but when things didn’t work out Mr. Musk came with another comment that left us rolling on the floor.

“I had a talk with Mark, He has limited knowledge on the subject”

Which closely translates to ‘You know nothing, Mark Zuckerberg’.

Mark on the other hand has been playing this game as the formidable gentleman which might just sound a little
villainous, given the circumstances but he definitely does not want to end the rule of homo-sapiens from planet
earth.

So until we get more updates on AI, we are busy playing around with Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri.

“Siri, would you go out on a date with me ?”

“Aw, that’s sweet but I, uh, already, um, have plans.

Yeah I have plans.”