Elon Musk predicts that his company xAI could achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI) within the next couple of years, and maybe as soon as 2026, according to a new report from Business Insider. If it feels like you’ve heard that one before, it’s probably because you have. Musk predicted the same thing in 2024, claiming […]
Big Tech Says Superintelligent AI Is in Sight. The Average Expert Disagrees
The top leaders in AI have very lofty expectations for the future of artificial intelligence. “By 2026 or 2027, we will have AI systems that are broadly better than almost all humans at almost all things,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said earlier this year at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Elon Musk posited […]
Microsoft AI Chief Warns Pursuing Machine Consciousness Is a Gigantic Waste of Time
Head of Microsoft’s AI division Mustafa Suleyman thinks that AI developers and researchers should stop trying to build conscious AI. “I don’t think that is work that people should be doing,” Suleyman told CNBC in an interview last week. Suleyman thinks that while AI can definitely get smart enough to reach some form of superintelligence, […]
Marc Benioff Can’t Get Enough of the AI Hype—Unless You Say ‘AGI’
Marc Benioff, a guy who has poured money into artificial intelligence investments and claims that AI tools are doing half of the work at Salesforce, isn’t so sure about all the hype around this whole sector all of a sudden. During an appearance on the “20VC” podcast, as spotted by Business Insider, Benioff poured water […]