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.

It was reported and given the fake news environment it may not be true but certainly could be true that Elon Musk said, "he was afraid of AI more than nukes." Given his stature in the business world which may be crumbling but still he brings to the forefront of the news and business thinking that AI could bring about a real-man made global extinction event. Yet what he was really talking about is not some terrible global brain that kills everyone but more like a virus that kills us from within. In the following companion to my other article I will explore the use of algorithms or rules of thumbs to kill everything around us and humans as well. That is, you don't have to kill humans directly all you have to do is kill the oxygen, water, food or create viruses like super flu that kill us.

Depending on whom you ask, your car will be driving you in less than two years – or more than 15. The Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, who is never shy about beating his chest, on Wednesday declared it to be just two years away . In doing so, he made one of the most confident predictions to date about how soon consumers can stop worrying about passing their driver's tests. "I really consider autonomous driving a solved problem," he said. "I think we are probably less than two years away."