Gamingdeputy reported on May 7 that Elon Musk recently participated in the 27th Milken Global Conference. During the conversation, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX expressed his optimism for artificial intelligence (AI) and believed that Artificial intelligence that “pursues truth” can “promote the development of human civilization.” However, when asked whether artificial intelligence can “accelerate” space exploration, he was less enthusiastic.
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“Can artificial intelligence help you achieve your space exploration goals faster?” asked host Michael Milken.
Musk replied, “In fact, artificial intelligence is almost not used in space exploration. SpaceX and Starlink basically do not use artificial intelligence technology.This is not because I am against it, but because so far we have not found a suitable application scenario.. “
Musk said,He tried to use an improved artificial intelligence language model to learn space knowledge, but the results were not ideal.. “I've asked these models questions about Fermi Paradox, rocket engine design and electrochemistry, but so far their answers have been unsatisfactory,” Musk said. If there are extraterrestrial civilizations, then we should be able to observe them easily, but this is not the case in reality. Therefore, artificial intelligence still has a long way to go in the field of space exploration.
Despite his reservations about AI applications in space exploration, Musk still invests heavily in artificial intelligence research and development through his startup xAI. xAI’s official website states that its goal is to use artificial intelligence technology to “accelerate human scientific discovery.” Previously, Musk had predicted that artificial intelligence would surpass human intelligence by the end of 2026.
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In Musk's other companies, the application of artificial intelligence is more extensive. He integrated Grok, a chatbot similar to ChatGPT, into social media platform X, and considered using artificial intelligence technology to help users summarize news information.
For Tesla, Musk hopes to build an intelligent humanoid robot called Optimus for production operations. However, due to shareholding ratio issues, Tesla's automotive business has currently suspended the research and development of artificial intelligence. Musk said on the X platform that owning 25% of the shares would give him greater influence on the development direction of Tesla's artificial intelligence.
Gamingdeputy noted that in addition to being optimistic about the potential of artificial intelligence, Musk also expressed concerns about potential risks, such as the spread of false information that artificial intelligence may bring and the unemployment problems caused by widespread automation. The tech billionaire also believes that super-intelligent artificial intelligence has the potential to either save or destroy humanity.
“I think artificial intelligence may be the cause of the demise of the human race,” Musk said at the Abundance Summit's “Artificial Intelligence Debate” seminar in March. “I probably agree with Geoff Hinton, the probability is about 10 to 20 percent. between.”
But he also said that despite the risks, we should still take risks. “I think the positive possibilities outweigh the negative possibilities,” he said.
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According to news on May 7, when Musk was asked whether artificial intelligence would accelerate his efforts in space exploration, he said: “The weird thing is that space exploration almost does not use artificial intelligence. So SpaceX basically does not use artificial intelligence, Starlink There's also no use of artificial intelligence. I'm not opposed to using it, but we haven't seen its use yet,” said Musk, who has been testing improved AI language models by asking them questions about space. People are disappointed.