{"id":187428,"date":"2024-04-15T16:22:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T21:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/elon-musk-says-that-within-two-years-ai-will-be-smarter-than-the-smartest-human"},"modified":"2024-04-15T16:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T21:22:27","slug":"elon-musk-says-that-within-two-years-ai-will-be-smarter-than-the-smartest-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/elon-musk-says-that-within-two-years-ai-will-be-smarter-than-the-smartest-human","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Says That Within Two Years, AI Will Be \u201cSmarter Than the Smartest Human\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-says-that-within-two-years-ai-will-be-smarter-than-the-smartest-human2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk \u2014 who has an <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/elon-musk-promises-tesla-full-self-driving-again\" class=\"\">abysmal track<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/elon-musk-wrong-about-sam-bankman-fried\" class=\"\">record<\/a> for making predictions \u2014 is predicting that we will achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI) by 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you define AGI as smarter than the smartest human, I think it\u2019s probably next year, within two years,\u201d he told Norway wealth fund CEO Nicolai Tangen during an interview this week, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/teslas-musk-predicts-ai-will-be-smarter-than-smartest-human-next-year-2024-04-08\/\" class=\"\">quoted by<\/a> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/teslas-musk-predicts-ai-will-be-smarter-than-smartest-human-next-year-2024-04-08\/\" class=\"\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The mercurial billionaire also attempted to explain why his own AI venture, xAI, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/elon-musk-grok-ai-trashes-elon\" class=\"\">falling behind the competition<\/a>. According to Musk, a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/sam-altman-seeking-trillions\" class=\"\">shortage of chips<\/a> was hampering his startup\u2019s efforts to come up with the successor of Grok, a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/elon-musks-grok-ai-accusations\" class=\"\">foul-mouthed, dad joke-generating AI chatbot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk \u2014 who has an abysmal track record for making predictions \u2014 is predicting that we will achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI) by 2026. \u201cIf you define AGI as smarter than the smartest human, I think it\u2019s probably next year, within two years,\u201d he told Norway wealth fund CEO Nicolai Tangen during [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-humor","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}