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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Too many people I know still have brains running Windows Vista.
I wonder how much of my tax dollars go to Elon Musk.
Great way to control the masses.
No thinks.
I’m keeping the government out of my head..
He really *IS* a real-life Bond Villain. :P
Musk is combination of PT Barnum and Howard Hughes.
He[[ to the no.
That would be Soros
I’ve devised a way to have nearly unlimited data at my very fingertips without any hardwired connections. I call it a “book”.
For some, it can’t hurt.
More like Windows 1.
Windows : you will believe your 386 will fly like a 286 running DOS.
And no one wants the brains running windows 10.
ok i love chess but am no good at it- so hook me up to deep blue
Stupid. The “file system” of the brain is not compatible with that of any computer.
There will be no uploading or downloading of memories any time soon.
Not an effing chance.
Just imagine what a little malware could do to you?
The most benign would be an ad popping up over an over again until you buy something, then shutting up - but just for a while.
And just think about the possibilities for the surveillance state...
True story.
My sister worked for a large bank years ago before she got married and became an at-home mom.
She had a co-worker who, to put it mildly, was a little bit slow on the uptake. Whenever you would tell her something she would just sit and stare at you blankly for five or ten seconds, as if what you had just said was taking time to process in her brain.
The gals in that office all nicknamed her “286”.
Haven’t Google and Facebook already beat him to it, but cleverly coming in through the back door?
Hard pass...
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