Elon Musk is getting even more bullish on artificial intelligence.
Tesla's CEO accelerated his predictions about AI's capabilities in an interview on Twitter/X, saying that large-scale language models will surpass human intelligence by the end of 2025.
“My guess is that we're going to have an AI that's smarter than any human being, probably around the end of next year,” Musk told Norges Bank Investment Management CEO Nicolai in an interview livestreamed on X. told Mr. Tangen.of financial times.
Within five years, AI will be smarter than every human on the planet, Musk added.
It's worth noting that Musk's predictions are often premature, especially if they revolve around the products he's trying to sell and if his Grok is trying to become a player in the world of AI. worth it. He has long said that a self-driving Tesla is just around the corner, but that the technology is still being refined. He originally said SpaceX would fly to Mars by 2024 (the tentative date currently stands at 2029). And Tesla's Cybertruck was launched more than two years later than he had planned.
However, AI prediction is an upgrade for him. He previously predicted that “full” artificial general intelligence would not be achieved until 2029.
But Musk said the pace of development could accelerate as microchip bottlenecks are easing.
Musk's bullish stance on AI comes just a year after he signed an open letter calling for a six-month pause on the development of advanced AI systems, addressing long-standing concerns and It's based on the threat they feel it could pose to humanity.
Musk was a co-founder of OpenAi but left the company in 2018 and has criticized its efforts ever since. He recently persuaded investors to pour billions into Grok's parent company, xAI, with the goal of increasing its valuation to $18 billion.