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Elon Musk predicts AI will be smarter than people next year

A artificial intelligence superhuman, more intelligent than anyone else on Earth, could exist next year, said Elon Musk, unless the industry's power and computing requirements become unsustainable before then.

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The prediction is a strong reinforcement of a previous statement by the multibillionaire – that superintelligent AI would exist by 2029.

While “superhuman” is generally defined as being more intelligent than any individual human being at any specific task, superintelligent is often defined as being more intelligent than any human being.

“My guess is that we will probably have an AI that is smarter than any human by the end of next year,” Musk said in an interview broadcast live on his social network X.

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This prediction was made with the caveat that the growing demand for power and the scarcity of the most powerful AI training chips could limit its capacity in the future. curto deadline.

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