Elon Musk predicts AI to surpass humans digitally by 2027

elon musk recently tweeted that ai will be able to do anything digital at a superhuman level by the end of 2027. this prediction is a revised version of his previous statement from april 2024, where he predicted ai smarter than any human by the end of 2024 and total sentient compute of ai exceeding all humans in 5 years. gary marcus, a prominent voice in the ai community, expressed doubt about musk's prediction, citing the current limitations of ai and the lack of progress in addressing challenges he raised with miles brundage in 2024. marcus also noted that musk has a history of making optimistic predictions that often get revised. the media's handling of musk's predictions has been criticized for not adequately questioning their validity.