Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday said that computers are getting smarter than humans in more and more spheres and that the trend will continue, CNBC reports.
“We will be far, far surpassed in every single way. I guarantee it,” Musk said to Jack Ma, chairman of Alibaba, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai.
Musk pointed to advances in chess and the Chinese board game of Go as evidence of progress in AI.
“Your cell phone could crush the world champion of chess, literally,” Musk told Ma.
“The first thing we should assume is we are very dumb,” he said. “We can definitely make things smarter than ourselves.”
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