Billionaire business magnate Elon Musk who's the CEO (chief executive office) of electric carmaker Tesla Motors and also the founder CEO spacecraft-maker of SpaceX on Tuesday said Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg's knowledge of artificial intelligence (AI) is "limited".
"I've talked to Mark (Zuckerberg) about this. His understanding of the subject is limited," Musk said on micro-blogging site Twitter where he is extremely active and often engages in conversations with fans and Twitter users.
Musk was responding to Zuckerberg's comment during a Facebook live on Sunday where he criticised the Tesla chief's views on artificial intelligence. A user had submitted a question, which Zuckerberg read out loud during the live: "I watched a recent interview with Elon Musk and his largest fear for future was AI. What are your thoughts on AI and how it could affect the world?"
While answering the user query, Zuckerberg went on to say, "I think people who are naysayers and try to drum up these doomsday scenarios -- I just, I don't understand it. It's really negative and in some ways I actually think it is pretty irresponsible."
Earlier this month, Musk had said AI will certainly bring in job disruption as robots will be able to do "everything better" than humans. "There certainly will be job disruption. Because what's going to happen is robots will be able to do everything better than us. ... I mean all of us," Musk had said during an event.
Besides being successful entrepreneurs and CEOs, Musk and Zuckerberg are both pop-culture icons. While Musk is often referred to as the real-life 'Ironman' -- a reference to the Marvel comic superhero, Zuckerberg has had a Hollywood movie made on him and how he founded Facebook called 'The Social Network'.
Musk is vocal advocate for proactive regulation of AI. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Professor Stephen Hawking have also expressed concerns about the potential of artificial intelligence in the long run.
While Prof. Hawking has said he feels that machines with AI could "spell the end of the human race", during an "ask me anything" question and answer session on Reddit in 2015, Gates said, "I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence. First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. That should be positive if we manage it well. A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern. I agree with Elon Musk and some others on this and don't understand why some people are not concerned."