What they said: Humanity is doomed by an impending population collapse. But Musk, who appeared discombobulated at times following a late trans-Pacific flight, met his match in a fellow billionaire who parried him at every turn.

An onstage debate between China’s richest man and the Tesla Inc. boss left a largely Chinese audience both awestruck and dumbfounded as the pair sparred over everything from the existence of aliens to the preservation of human consciousness.

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Populations in Europe and Latin America are projected to be declining by 2100. Alibaba's Jack Ma and Tesla's Elon Musk took opposing views of the risks and potential rewards of artificial intelligence at an event in Shanghai. “I don’t think AI is a threat,” Ma said, responding to the Tesla CEO’s introductory points.

Okay, maybe we’re being dramatic. So, we need artificial intelligence for the robots to take care of the old guys.

Microsoft, Walmart Offer Joint TikTok Bid, Vying With Oracle "Although Mr Ma acknowledged that we needed to find ways to become "more creative and constructive", he concluded that "my view is that [a] computer may be clever, but human beings are much smarter". He said it was something "to embrace" and would deliver fresh insights into how people think.

"Whereas a computer can easily communicate at a terabit level. There needed to be biology to get there. August … On the other hand, Musk suggested that AI could bring about mass unemployment. California Approves Energy Storage Systems to Bolster Grid “The biggest mistake I see people making is to assume they’re smart,” Musk countered.

""I absolutely agree with that," Ma said. President Trump will accept the Republican presidential nomination and attack his rival Joe Biden.© 2020 BBC.

Okay, maybe we’re being dramatic. California Approves Energy Storage Systems to Bolster Grid US-based Mr Musk made his fortune at the digital payments firm PayPal before going on to run electric car-maker Tesla, space rocket company SpaceX and tunnel-transport business The Boring Company among other ventures. 0 2. VCG via Getty Images. Computers only have chips, men have the heart. After listening to Elon Musk and Alibaba's Jack Ma debate yesterday at the World AI Conference, we're headed to a remote Pacific island to live out the rest of our days in a blissful stupor. The organizers of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in … "The common rebuttal is like, 'Well what about immigration?'

Elon Musk and Jack Ma agree: The biggest problem the world will face is population collapse Published Fri, Aug 30 2019 1:19 PM EDT Updated Tue, Sep 3 … NASA Sees Cost Rising 30% on Boeing Rocket for Moon Missions Replies (3) Share: 0 2. "At that time we are going to have a lot of jobs which nobody [will] want to do. "The population problem is going to be facing huge challenge.

Collapse. "To avoid such a fate, he said we needed to find a way to connect our brains to computers so that we could "go along for the ride with AI" - something Otherwise, he cautioned, AI would become weary of trying to communicate with humans, as we would be much slower thinkers in comparison.

"So that's my view about jobs, don't worry about it, we will have jobs. Musk Confirms Tesla Factory Was Target of Thwarted Cyberatta...

"It's going to get to the point where [AI] just can completely simulate a person in every way possible, like many people simultaneously," he added.