Powerful technology leaders and others public figures have sounded the alarm about the potential dangers of AI technology for years, including Elon Musk, who has never has been silent on this matter.
Now, the multi-CEO is claiming that technology will soon be able to outsmart even the most intelligent people.
In a live interview Monday on X, which he owns, the billionaire spoke with Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, about the potential advancement of AI technology.
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“AI is the fastest-advancing technology of any kind that I've seen, and I've seen a lot of technology,” Musk said. “I think we'll have AI smarter than any human by the end of next year.”
However, the demand for chips and electricity could limit progress, he said.
— Nicolai Tangen (@NicolaiTang1) April 8, 2024
In 2023, Musk predicted a timeline of five to six years before superintelligence, but continued with a growth chart of how the technology has advanced over the past two-plus decades, saying the visual description “says it all.”
The growth chart of AI computing says it all https://t.co/Lj2o4CfVN8
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 8, 2024
Musk co-founded OpenAI (creator of ChatGPT) with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, but sued the pair last month claiming they “breached the company's founding agreement” by working towards commercial success instead of using the company's technology to “benefit humanity” .
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Musk also stood alongside other tech titans, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg last September at a US government AI summit to discuss the need for regulation.
“There's some chance — above zero — that AI will kill us all. I think it's low, but there's some chance,” Musk he told reporters after the session. “The consequences of AI error are severe.”
Whether or not this will be realized in the coming year remains to be seen.
or last poll by Tata Consultancy Services of 21 corporate futurists shows that superintelligence is not what most see AI as.
Futurist and author Bernard Marr told CNBC Earlier this week, while we're “a long way from AI becoming sentient, if ever,” AI technology has become “very, very good at doing things that in the past only humans could do.” “they did”.