Innovation and entrepreneurship go hand in hand. Futuristic minds and visionaries see the future driven by technology in different ways. The clash of opinion about the future of AI between two of the most successful entrepreneurs of our times Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg proves how interesting the topic is and how uncertain the results of constant innovation will be in near and far future.

Recently Elon Musk attended the National Governor’s Association event where he spoke with concern about the future of AI. He said: “AI is a fundamental existential risk for human civilization, and I don’t think people fully appreciate that.”

In response to this statement, Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg said that Musk’s predictions about the future of AI are irresponsible. Musk replied that Mark Zuckerberg’s knowledge of the AI future is ‘limited’. It is possible both to be wrong.

Despite the different opinions, the truth is that the rise of technology innovation is inevitable. Not only entrepreneurs but also well-established corporations need to think about incorporating the newest technology trends in their businesses in order to stay on top of their niche. But to what level?

The world as we know it today is a result of constant innovation and AI plays a significant part in it. The following insights will give us a different perspective and will help us look at innovation and AI from another angle.

“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We’re nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.” Larry Page

“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race….It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded.” Stephen Hawking

“Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.” Ray Kurzweil

“I don’t want to really scare you, but it was alarming how many people I talked to who are highly placed people in AI who have retreats that are sort of ‘bug out’ houses, to which they could flee if it all hits the fan.” James Barrat

“Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we’ll augment our intelligence.” Ginni Rometty

“Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence—in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement – wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league.” Eliezer Yudkowsky

“The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.” Jean Baudrillard

“There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest. Those kinds of jobs are easier for our friends in the artificial intelligence community to design robots to handle them. They could be software robots; they could be physical robots.” Erik Brynjolfsson

“You have to talk about ‘The Terminator’ if you’re talking about artificial intelligence. I actually think that that’s way off. I don’t think that an artificially intelligent system that has superhuman intelligence will be violent. I do think that it will disrupt our culture.” Gray Scott

“The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.” Jeff Hawkins