There has been a lot of talk about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics may one day take over human jobs. There is a sense of fear that AI may just make quite a lot of jobs irrelevant. This theory has found at least one big-name supporter and that’s none other than Tesla CEO Elon Musk. According to a CNET report, Musk said that “AI will make jobs kind of pointless”. The Tesla CEO was speaking at the World Artificial Intelligence conference in Shanghai. The one job that Musk thinks will still remain relevant – that too till a certain time only – is that of writing AI software. “Probably the last job that will remain will be writing AI software, and then eventually the AI will just write its own software,” said Musk.

Musk also explained why he thought people studies subjects like engineering, physics or anything that involves people interacting with each other, reported CNET.

“People enjoy, fundamentally, interacting with other people. So if you're working on something that involves people, or engineering, it's probably a good approach,” Musk said.

Interestingly, at the same conference Musk was in discussion with Chinese billionaire and chairman of Alibaba, Jack Ma . Musk said that people should think that they are ‘dumb’. “The first thing we should assume is that we are very dumb”, before adding that, “we can definitely make things smarter than ourselves.”

Musk had strong opinions about computers being smarter than humans. “We will be far, far surpassed in every single way. I guarantee it,” he said, according to a report by CNBC. He also said that the cell phone will – or already has so much power – that it could “crush the world champion of chess, literally.”

The Tesla CEO was in discussion with Chinese billionaire and chairman of Alibaba, Jack Ma. Interestingly, Ma had opposing view than those of Musk. “I’ve never in my life, especially in the last two years, when people talk about AI, human beings will be controlled by machines. I never think about that. It’s impossible.”

