Mark Cuban: If we let China or Russia win the artificial intelligence race we're 'SOL'

Billionaire tech entrepreneur Mark Cuban has seen a ton of change since he first got in the technology business in 1982, but he argues that artificial intelligence (AI) is going to "change everything, 180 degrees." He warns that if the U.S. allows other countries to take the lead in AI, then it'll be "SOL," an acronym that employs profanity to communicate urgency. "All these things have happened that have changed how we do business, changed how we lived our lives, changed everything, right, the internet. But what we're going to see with artificial intelligence dwarfs all of that," Cuban said in an interview with hedge fund manager J. Kyle Bass of Hayman Capital on RealVision Television, a subscription financial video service. AI is expected to soon bring an increase in productivity, resulting in fewer jobs all while the population continues to grow. "It's not a question of how it plays out over 100 years.