Jack Ma vs. Musk 'humans are smarter' debate goes viral again as AI agents double task length every 7 months
elonmusk · x · 2026-10-05
Elon Musk resurfaced his old debate with Jack Ma, who argued computers are just tools humans invented ('I've never seen a computer invent a human being'), while Musk pushed back asking what humans can do better than computers.
The post notes the exchange reads very differently now: AI agents write code, analyze documents, plan and decide autonomously. It cites METR's finding that the length of software tasks frontier agents complete has doubled roughly every seven months, with signs of acceleration.
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