According to tech billionaire Elon Musk, artificial intelligence could become smarter than any human by the end of next year. The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX made this prediction shortly after his AI company, xAI, officially launched its first image-generating model, Aurora, earlier this month.
Aurora, the updated version of the first image-generating model that xAI introduced in October, allows users to create realistic images.
Compared to other AI models, Aurora has fewer restrictions and can generate accurate images in almost any prompt, including images of celebrities and copyrighted characters.
Musk wrote on Monday in a post on his social media platform X: "It is increasingly likely that AI will surpass the intelligence of any human by the end of 2025 and possibly all of humanity by 2027/2028."
According to him, the likelihood that AI will surpass the intelligence of all of humanity combined by 2030 is "~100%."
Earlier this year, Musk's xAI launched Colossus, described as the world's most powerful AI training system, setting a new standard in the rapidly evolving field of AI. Colossus boasts 100,000 liquid-cooled H100 graphics processors, chips provided by Nvidia, allowing xAI to far outpace competitors, including OpenAI.
Meanwhile, celebrities and scientists have voiced concerns in recent years about the potential risks posed by uncontrolled AI technology adoption.
Last month, renowned computer scientist and professor at the University of Montreal, Yoshua Bengio, warned that machines could soon acquire most of the cognitive abilities of humans and thus pose serious risks to humanity as controlling AI becomes increasingly difficult.
The computer scientist expressed the common fear that AI machines currently being trained "will create systems against humanity."
Bengio also highlighted the potential risks of social and political disparities arising from AI, pointing out that a limited number of organizations and governments may be able to afford to build powerful and expensive AI machines. This would lead to a concentration of economic, political, and military power, ultimately threatening geopolitical stability worldwide, the scientist warned.
In June, while speaking at the G7 summit in Italy, Pope Francis warned humanity not to rely on choices made by machines.
The Pope emphasized that algorithms "can only check realities formalized in numerical form," while humans possess intelligence and can listen to the Bible, "not only to choose but also to decide from the heart."