Elon Musk

And then probably by 2030 or 2031, call it five years from now, AI will be smarter than all of humanity collectively.

I want to... I mean, I would frame this question by you are the most successful entrepreneur, industrialist in the 21st century, maybe beyond.

So I want to really get this... What inspired you?

Well, I mean, as a kid, I read a lot of science fiction, sci-fi, fantasy books.

Yep, we talked about that.

And comic books.

And I always liked technology.

I didn't expect to be where I am today.

It seems incredibly implausible.

But, yeah, I was inspired by reading about books about the future, about science fiction, and I guess I want to make science fiction not fiction forever.

At some point, turn science fiction to science fact.

And, you know...

We want to have Starfleet and Star Trek really, for real.

Where we actually have giant spaceships traveling through space, going to other planets, traveling to other star systems, going places where we've never gone.

I'd be beamed up to go back to New York.

I'd like to just be beamed back to New York instead of flying.

Yeah.

Talk about Star Trek.

No, I guess my essential, what I would call the philosophy of curiosity, I'd like to understand the meaning of life.

Is the standard model of physics correct regarding the beginning of existence and the end of the universe?