Even as Musk sounded the alarm that the race for artificial intelligence could destroy us all, he was joining it. For the moment, he was chasing the idea of a self-driving car, but he would soon chase the same grandiose idea as DeepMind, creating his own lab in pursuit of AGI. For Musk, it was all wrapped up in the same technological trend. First image recognition. Then translation. Then driverless cars. Then AGI.
