Still can't believe you can build a career in this business out of saying we'll have more advanced technologies in the future. Slap a number on it while you're at it. Sell a book.
He's done a bunch of other stuff also. Synthesisers, OCR, National Medal of Technology and Innovation, Lemelson–MIT Prize National Inventors Hall of Fame etc.
Heh, obviously they did. But RK seemed so absent and lost, and he said such things that it was obvious that he's just old and his mind is very much not what it used to be.
I (Msc AI from the 90s) went from extreme pessimist to optimist in the past years but ‘Elon musk says it wil …’ is not very interesting and I am not sure why he added it there. There are far more scientific and informed people who have the same timescales as Elon; why not name one of them.
Any prediction beyond 2 years out is probably wrong.
His prediction for 2045 is the same as saying "Sometime in the future we'll have a 'millionfold expanded intelligence'".
The only way to increase the amount of intelligence on earth is by having children.