AI Will Outdo Human Intelligence by the coming year or by the year 2026, says Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk

Elon Musk Predicts AI Supremacy Over Human Intellect by 2026

Written by: Supriya Kadu

Edited by: Omkar Devadkar

Last Updated: April 12, 2024

Summary: Elon Musk made a bold claim that AI will surpass human intelligence by the coming year or by 2026.

In terms of AI advancement, Elon Musk has made a bold statement: by 2026 or the next year, artificial general intelligence (AGI) may outperform human intelligence. Musk emphasized in a recent X Spaces interview how crucial having a sufficient supply of electricity is to improving AI. He also discussed the difficulties his business, xAI, was having finding advanced processors, especially when it came to training Grok, their next AI chatbot.

He stated that the upcoming version of Grok should be trained by May, but he also emphasized the difficulties brought on by a lack of powerful processors. Musk has also co-founded OpenAI, about which he expressed concern that it’s diverging from its initial objective. He launched xAI last year, portraying it as a competitor to OpenAI, which he has sued for allegedly prioritizing profit over mankind's progression through AI development.

In response to a recent podcast aired by Joe Rogan, Elon Musk said in a post on X that "AI will probably be smarter than all humans combined by 2029." The guest on the podcast, American computer scientist Ray Kurzweil, stated that while people might anticipate it will take another 100 years for AI to surpass human intelligence, he thinks it could happen much sooner—possibly in the next five years—a prediction that is strikingly similar to Elon Musk's.

However, he still believes that the benefits of AI will surpass the dangers, as reported by Business Insider. The multibillionaire businessman stayed mum about the precise steps he took to arrive at the risk estimates.