Hello, and welcome to Eye on A.I.
I spent most of last week at Viva Tech, the big technology trade show in Paris. Unsurprisingly, the hottest topic in the exhibition hall was generative A.I. Elon Musk, whose appearance at Viva Tech was a major coup for the show’s organizers, said A.I. “is probably the most disruptive technology ever.” He mentioned Tesla’s work on two A.I.-enabled technologies, self-driving cars and humanoid robots, and said he thought it was these technologies (both of which are a subset of what he called “autonomy”), not anything that Tesla produced today, that explained the company’s $816 billion market cap. Musk said that, in an optimistic scenario, A.I. will usher in “an age of abundance where any goods or services that you want, you can just have.” But he also said even if there were “some sort of A.I. apocalypse, I think I would still want to be alive at this time to see it,” before adding, in a joking aside, “and hopefully not cause it.”
