Elon Musk said during an interview this week that the United States will win the race for artificial intelligence in the near term, but that long-term success over China will come down to which nation has the stronger manufacturing base.
Musk made the remarks during an interview on Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) “Verdict” podcast with co-host Ben Ferguson when asked about how the technology will change people’s lives.
“In 10 years, probably AI could do anything better than a human can cognitively, probably almost, I think, in 10 years, based on the current rate of improvement, AI will be smarter than the smartest human,” he said. “There will also be a massive number of robots, so humanoid robots.”
He claimed that there would be “tens of billions of robots” in existence by then that will “make you anything or provide any service you want for basically next to…
