Elon Musk appeared at last night’s Breakthrough Prize ceremony in Los Angeles, briefly discussing artificial intelligence (AI) during his red carpet walk.
The 10th annual Breakthrough Prize ceremony, often referred to as the “Oscars of science,” took place Saturday night at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, with Musk and several other celebrities from science and Hollywood in attendance. were included.
During his appearance on the red carpet, Musk was asked by a YouTuber what he hoped would be the biggest achievement in our lifetime. Not surprisingly, Musk noted that making life multidimensional was one, while the continued development of AI was another.
While he warned again that it’s possible that AI could eventually kill us all, he also repeated recent statements that he believes we’ll have AI more than humans by the end of next year. will become smarter, and further increase the importance of AI training. As true as possible. He notes that this is important, even if that truth is unpopular, and says he’s optimistic that AI will ultimately promote humanity rather than destroy it through this approach.
He also cited the example of Galileo, saying that AI in his time also believed that the sun revolved around the earth, because that was what most (not Galileo) believed at the time. Musk noted that AI must both know the truth and be able to tell the truth, even if it’s unpopular.
You can watch the less than two-minute interview with Musk below, courtesy of YouTube channel Music & Medicine.
Musk also joked in another interview. Variety Reporters said we could see an AI win the presidency by 2032, after laughing off the question of who would win the US presidential election that year.
The event featured a number of presenters including Robert Downey Jr., Kim Kardashian, Regina King, Brie Larson, Rob Lowe, Alicia Keys, Venus Williams, Michelle Yeoh and others. The Breakthrough event board consists of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, entrepreneur Yuri Milner, 23andMe founder and Breakthrough co-founder Anna Wojciech, and board chair Huda Yahya Zoghbi.
It also distributed the awards in four separate categories, the winners of which can be seen below:
- Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics
- Simon Brendel (Contributions to Geometry)
- Breakthrough Prize in Basic Physics
- John Cardy and Alexander Zmoludchikov (contributions to statistical physics, quantum field theory)
- New Horizons in Physics Prize
- Michael Johnson and Alexandre Lopaska (contributions to the study of black hole photon color, and detection experiments)
- Mikhail Ivanov, Olivier Filcox and Marko Simonovic (contributions to new instruments for surveying the structure of the large-scale universe and galaxies)
- Laura M. Pérez, Paola Pinilla, Nienke van der Marel and Til Birnstiel (contributions to dust trap predictions, modeling and detection)
- Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
- Carl H. John and Michael Sedelin (contributions to the development of immunotherapy)
- Sabine Hadida, Paul Nigolescu and Frederic Van Gore (Collaboration to Change Medicines for People with Cystic Fibrosis)
- Thomas Gasser, Alan Sidransky and Andrew Singleton (discovery of risk genes for Parkinson’s disease)
The full video of the groundbreaking ceremony will be released on YouTube on April 21st, and you can watch it here.
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