Elon Musk: “I think we're training toward to having something that's…”

“It's now there's a higher life form that lives amongst us that we've created. How far away are we from that? Well, in terms of silicon consciousness, I mean, I think we'll have. I think we're training toward to having something that's smarter than any human, smarter than the smartest human by maybe next year or something. I mean, a couple years. Jesus Christ. Yeah. There's a level beyond that which is say, like smarter than all humans combined, which frankly is around 2029 or 2030, probably right.” (47:53–48:01)

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