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Elon Musk: AI will be smarter than humans in five years | The Economist
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2:23Now Playing“There really won't be anything that AI can’t do better than humans, apart from being human, perhaps” says Elon Musk. On the latest Insider, he tells Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist’s editor-in-chief, that artificial intelligence may exceed the sum of human intelligence in about five years.
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