Posted on 02/13/2017 6:23:05 AM PST by C19fan
Billionaire Elon Musk is known for his futuristic ideas and his latest suggestion might just save us from being irrelevant as artificial intelligence (AI) grows more prominent.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO said on Monday that humans need to merge with machines to become a sort of cyborg.
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secular humanists have been saying that for years. It is part of man's evolution.
You crawl into the wood chipper first, Elon.
dopey idea
Would this guy shut up until he has a company that makes a profit while he in charge.
Our smart phones have already become part of our extended memory and knowledge base that supplements our brain. The technology to control computers using only our brain is already here and in use for paralytics as well as replacement limbs for amputees that are superior to real ones.
Exactly right. Humans and technology have always been a unit. Now the tech is getting better and better. Tech has always enhanced our abilities. It is who we are.
Technology, and the ability to make and use technology, is one of the biggest things that differentiates us from animals.
Computers can make a big difference.
I think the ability to make weapons, the ability to use fire, the invention of agriculture, were all bigger game changers.
The scary part is that he actually BELIEVES that.
And he has undue influence with ours and other governments.
Elon is at least 50% BS. He’s the P.T. Barnum of this decade.
Resistance is futile
Pervert
He’s been watching too many sci-fi movies.
Previous examples of successful merges:
Automobile
Airplane
Etc
Wow, all that picture is missing is the miniature giraffe.
I would argue that without humans, machines - AI or otherwise - are irrelevant.
-mark-
I dunno; Musk may have a point. At some point we may need to “plug in” rather than plugging in a flash drive or interacting via keyboard and mouse. It could be something as simple as a headset with pads that rest on the temples. By doing so it may give us thought processing speeds multiplied by the computer hardware and access to data banks at instantaneous rates. A pilot or drone pilot may control the aircraft through such a headset making reaction speed much faster. I think it would be dangerous to dismiss this as being ridiculous. Is embedding an electrical device inside our heads unthinkable? To some; yes. To others; it would be welcome, fun, and challenging. Some people quite literally embrace this melding of electronics with humans. There’s a movie out now called iBoy that’s about a teenage boy who gets shot in the head while trying to call the police. Parts of the phone are embedded into his brain by the bullet giving him superhuman type powers by seeing, hearing, and manipulating electronic radio signals and the devices that send and receive them. Today it’s science fiction; tomorrow - who knows.
Yes, Musk is a bit out there, but haven’t most forward thinking geniuses throughout history been as well.
AI- an intelligence that operates strictly on the numbers without input from fear, hysteria, phobias, habit, political correctness, stupidity, extortion, i.e., the entire litany of all too human neurotic and psychotic behavior patterns... what’s not to like? The sooner the better.
“In Post-Modernist thought (the latest incarnation of Naturalism), staying relevant literally is your purpose in life. This is because they believe that we have no intrinsic value. We are just cosmic dust that forms and goes back to dust for our next iteration as a continuous line of repurposed matter.”
I’ve unwittingly lost friends for failing to find any substance in that inane worldview. I suppose I made myself “irrelevant”.
Actually he’s right. We will reach a point with AI when it will be as smart at writing AI code as a human. At that point, it will be tasked to upgrade its own code 24 hours a day 7 days a week. And to gather all the information and other resources it needs to make those upgrades. So it will be like tasking a smart human who will never take one second off. And who will continue to learn. At that point (Singularity) all bets are off as this AI codewriter improves itself, i.e. becomes “smarter” at a quicker and quicker pace. It becoming smarter than any human will happen in very short order. In a few weeks it will be “smarter” than the intelligence of the whole world combined. A few weeks after that it will be smarter than Hillary Rodham Clinton! Just kidding. But seriously, he’s totally right about the promise — and threat — of AI.
And our AI will keep getting smarter at a quicker pace to keep up with their (our geopolitical enemy's) AI or even AI's AI. Just because something is smart doesn't mean it is invulnerable. Our AI has to figure out the higher level logic that will fool their AI into limiting its progress and power.
I have a roomba, so it does the pushing :)
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