Elon Musk may have agreed with Google CEO Sundar Pichai on future of AI

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Google CEOSundar Pichai appear to be aligned on one fundamental point regarding artificial intelligence –its immense and largely untapped potential. Musk recently responded to a social media post asserting that AI is in its initial stages and there’s so much to explore.“The craziest thing about AI is that we are still so early,” a user said. Musk replied, "Yeah” and in a separate post, he said, “AI will get a billion times smarter.”This assessment of AI’s current state echoes comments made by Pichai earlier this year. Speaking in an interview with The Verge in May, Pichai drew a parallel between the rise of AI and the transformative eras of the internet and mobile technology.“Just imagine when the internet came, blogging became a thing. With mobile came cameras, and you could shoot and you could create videos. Look at what’s happened with YouTube,” Pichai said.He views the current phase of AI development similarly, noting the focus on “vibe coding” and new generative models like Veo 3. He stressed that the technology's full creative power “is yet to be unleashed.”The Google CEO cautioned that while current models are capable of some basic tasks, "you really need to be a programmer to iterate and create something with polish." However, he added that this technological frontier "is evolving pretty rapidly."“We are barely scratching the surface, and these models aren’t quite there. You can kind of do one-shot coding, but you really need to be a programmer to iterate and create something with polish. But that frontier is evolving pretty rapidly,” he said.