How soon will machines outsmart us? Biggest brains in AI can’t agree

Elon Musk’s prediction that artificial intelligence will surpass human experts by 2025 sets him apart from rivals at OpenAI, Google and Meta.

George Hammond

Apr 14, 2024 – 2.29pm

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San Francisco | A string of breakthroughs in artificial intelligence over the past year has raised expectations for the arrival of machines that can outperform expert humans across a range of intellectual tasks.

With progress in AI seeming to accelerate, there is near consensus in Silicon Valley that abilities that seemed far-fetched only a few years ago are now closer at hand.

Financial Times