Posted on 07/18/2019 9:15:15 AM PDT by Enlightened1
The Tesla and SpaceX founder announced a goal of implanting chips into human brains as early as next year to create direct human connections to computers.
Elon Musk, the futurist billionaire behind SpaceX and Tesla, outlined his plans to connect humans' brains directly to computers on Tuesday night, describing a campaign to create "symbiosis with artificial intelligence." He said the first prototype could be implanted in a person by the end of next year.
Arriving at that goal "will take a long time," Musk said in a presentation at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, noting that securing federal approval for implanted neural devices is difficult. But testing on animals is already underway, and "a monkey has been able to control the computer with his brain," he said.
Musk founded Neuralink Corp. in July 2016 to create "ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers." The company said in 2017 that its initial goal was to devise brain interfaces to alleviate the symptoms of chronic medical conditions.
It's widely presumed, however, that Musk is characteristically after something much larger. He has frequently warned that the rapid advance of artificial intelligence, or AI, threatens to leave humanity in the dust, calling it an existential risk.
Musk repeated Tuesday night that one of the goals of Neuralink was to treat brain disorders, saying, "We can solve that with a chip."
But he went on to say that it also sought to help you "preserve and enhance your own brain" and to "create a well-aligned future."
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That will only work if everyone’s brain is also filled with Mary Jane smoke.
I saw these movies...
Ping.
Wait! Will this work on Liberals since they have no Brains. Would pay to see AOC Brain hooked up to a computer. LOL
Your remark reminds me of the appearance of watches with LED displays. I confess, I craved to have one. But pushing a button to learn the time soon became a PITA. After a few years the watch quit and I bought a nice analog model. I took pride in showing my watch to friends, saying how ultra modern it is to have a watch one merely had to LOOK at to learn the time of day. My current one is a Citizen Eco-Drive with an analog dial. Attsa nice!
This is fantastic! Synchronized swimming would be fantastic!
Will he go first??
Sounds sorta like a science fiction novel I read as a teen, NOVA by Samuel R. Delaney.
The book’s hero, named Mouse, had electric sockets in his wrists. He’d plug his personal space ship’s power cords into his wrist outlets & take off.
Musk strikes me as a guy who reads stuff like that.
Hey Elon, you first.
Kewl! I so much want to do a DEFRAG!
Phew!!! Right on time. Do I get a car with that?
Too many people’s brains can’t even run BASIC.
I’d like to hook elon’s drug-addled brain up to a machine that could get back all the taxpayers’ grants he has stolen.
"Cancel this order. That fat guy on Elm Street is just day dreaming again. It's 8th time this week".
Throw in 70-30, Barnum-Hughes, and I’ll concur with your assessment. He throws out these “cool sounding” ideas, and then sucks up a ton of grant money to “figure them out.”
And Snoop Dog
With no market --- fail.
Elon Musk is going to be serving time in a Federal Penitentiary for securities fraud long before this plan ever comes to fruition.
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