“I certainly feel comfortable saying that it’s getting 10 times better per year, which is, four years from now that would mean 10,000 times better, so maybe 100,000,” Musk said about the pace of AI. “I think it will be able to do anything that any human can do — possibly within the next year or two.”

Three years after that, Musk said, AI could get to the point of doing “what all humans can do, combined.”