Tech mogul Elon Musk spoke at Bosch Connected World about artificial intelligence and its limitations. The Tesla founder is of the opinion that next year, in 2025, there will be a bottleneck that will dramatically slow down the development of artificial intelligence. There is simply no electricity.
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by Sven Ademi
As the chips run out, there will soon not be enough power left
This is what Elon Musk says: During the Bosch Connected World, a tech trade fair in Berlin, Elon Musk spoke about the development of artificial intelligence and the underlying infrastructure.
His observation is that AI is growing faster than any other technology: “By a factor of 10 in 6 months.”
Nothing else has ever grown up so quickly. With such growth, everything would exceed the mass of the universe in a very short time.
However, there is a limit and it will be reached next year, i.e. 2025. Elon Musk cites two reasons for which there is a risk of shortages:
That was predictable. The chip shortage in recent years has already clearly indicated what will happen next. Humanity’s hunger for energy ultimately slows down the development of AI. One of the reasons is the desire for electric cars coupled with the poor infrastructure.
That’s exactly why Musk expanded his Supercharger network with Tesla, but the sheer amount of energy needed couldn’t be handled with the outdated infrastructure.
AI has even established itself in the streaming sector:
“I hope the robots are nice to us”
This is how Musk sees AI: Artificial intelligence is of great interest to Musk because it is the only way his Teslas can drive autonomously, as he explains. The cars would need something like eyes in order to be able to make decisions and for something like that you need AI.
However, in the short interview he also jokes about the dangers that artificial intelligence brings with it:
That really depressed me for a while. Will they take over? Are we becoming useless? But then I calmed down and asked myself: Would I rather be alive to see an AI apocalypse or not? And I think I would like to be. This won’t be boring.
Elon Musk at Bosch Connected World (via YouTube, around 07:30)
Tesla is currently working on a robot model that “can do roughly everything a human can do.” The project is called “Optimus.” Musk didn’t want to reveal anything more about it.
Concerns about an artificial intelligence that will eventually enslave humanity or otherwise become dangerous to it have been present for years – at least since the Terminator films and The Matrix.
However, with new developments, researchers repeatedly warn that AI is developing too quickly and that there are no meaningful limits. Because even the limits that are repeatedly set for the programs are obviously not enough: AI has rules that are intended to prevent bad things – YouTubers circumvent them with alarming ease in order to enrich themselves