Elon Musk: AI Will Master All Cognitive Tasks Within Four Years

Elon Musk: AI will be able to do any cognitive task within three or four years.

“AI will do anything you want and even suggest things you never even thought of. Within the next few years, AI will be able to do any cognitive task. It obviously begs the question what are we all going to do?

Pretty much any cognitive task that doesn't involve atoms, AI will be able to do within three or four years maximum.

And then, another element of it is the robotics. AI can't just be thinking in a data center, it's got to do things. That's where you need the robots.”

Interview with Mark Penn at CES, January 8, 2025