Elon Musk: “There's a level beyond that which is say, like smarter than…”

“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. On time, like. Now, if harnessed correctly, could that solve some of these problems like the heat shield problem and some technical problems or some, some material science problems that maybe we're still grappling with?” (48:06–48:15)

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