DEBATE: Is Elon Musk right to predict that AI will overtake humans within five years? - CityAM

Is Elon Musk right to predict that artificial intelligence will overtake humans within five years? For the last few years we have been saying that by 2025 we will pass someone in the corridor and not know if they are human or android. That's not to say that we're going to find ourselves in a "terminator" situation of artificial intelligence taking over the world, but machines will be the faithful assistants taking care of all ordinary chores. Man will be liberated from subsistence to creative expression, where humans will continue to reign supreme. This diffusion of carbon and silicon forms will be inevitable but a bit weird initially, as Musk points out. But as humans settle to this new normal, the new hybrid workforce will make for an exponentially more efficient planet.