“A supercomputer colossus looming, 2029 will be the year that machines will become smarter than humans, and AI development will increase tenfold every year.”
In a last chat with XPRIZE Founder Peter Diamandis, Elon Musk affirmed his positions on AI development and Mars colonization and estimated the energy of the future according to his vision.
During the Future Investment Initiative that was held in Riyadh, he spoke of SpaceX’s objectives for Mars, of Tesla’s self-driven cars, The expansion of X AI towards AI development suggesting a tantalizing ‘world’ which is far beyond the use of just robots and rockets.
Musk believes that 2029 will be the year that machines will become smarter than humans and asserts that the development of AI will increase tenfold every year.
However, he believes that there is about a 10-20% risk that it might cause the extinction of the human species.
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His other company, X AI, is seemingly making great strides with Colossus, a super-computer. It aims to be ahead of such models as Open AI’s GPT. In the same breath, Musk warns that there is a problem of global population collapse, particularly with the examples of declining birth rates in South Korea and Europe and calls for people to prepare themselves.
Musk’s brave proposal for Mars SpaceX will be sending starships without crew to Mars in 2 years.
The plans for Mars colonization by SpaceX is still prevailing in the imagination of Elon Musk’s plans. During the conference, he said that SpaceX would send its first uncrewed starships to Mars in a bit more than two years with a crew flown possibly two years thereafter.
Lately, the SpaceX marked new historic achievement when the Super Heavy booster was caught in the air by the Mechazilla chopstick arms preparing to the vertical landing of the rocket, thus wearing the primacy of the reusable rockets.
This development is geared towards lowering the costs of launching activities significantly, which in turn is the most critical factor for Musk planning to settle humans on Mars within a period that is socially sustainable. Now, while advocating for these revelations, Musk also expressed some fears about regulations that he thinks get in the way of achievement.
He observed that in case there is a revisit or resurgence of the Trump regime, inferring support for plans to support his hopes of colonizing Mars based on how much in favour of invasive regulations McAuliffe appeared. Even as it is still improbable, the American space entrepreneur indicated an interest in policy reform that would speed up the development and necessary infrastructure for very large-scale space projects.
Musk’s perspective towards Mars colonization: Low launch prices are essential to the human occupation of Mars
Forecasts by Musk indicate that by 2040, the population will have about 10 billion humanoid robots, which will substantially raise the valuation of Tesla by 2025 to $25 trillion thanks to the Optimus robot. He believes that high incomes will be attainable by all because of technology, and therefore, there would be no need for universal basic income.
Besides, he pictures a world that will depend solely on solar energy making sure that all civilizations will be utilizing it in a way that goes hand in hand with his ideals about the environment and what Tesla’s clean energy purposes stand for.
Musk’s projections suggest that approximately 10 billion anthropomorphic robots will exist by 2040, which will significantly elevate Tesla’s worth to $25 trillion by the year 2025, thanks to the Optimus robot. He thinks that access to technology will ensure all people earn high salaries and consequently always be a purpose for universal basic income.
Furthermore, he imagines a world that survives on solar energy fully whereby all nations will be using it which resonates with his mission on the sustainability of the environment as well as the purpose of clean energy by Tesla.
The aspirations of Elon Musk cut across technology, society, and the economy, integrating prudence with a flamboyant personality that is characterized by jokes, meddling in politics, and ridiculing policy makers.
Controversies notwithstanding, he is quite a significant figure in this age of AI, robotics, colonization of Mars, and renewable energy.
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