Some people might be convincing, but Elon Musk? Nope. I like being fully human.
He’s been watching too many sci-fi movies.
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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.
Weber and Ringo have an interesting take on the merging of human and machine.
Most people have a “toot” Short for tutorial something. It acts mostly as a teaching device and PDA where you can store information and access it at needed (something I could use). It is a military SF series so it is also used for communications, weapon targeting etc.
On downside is that they can be reprogrammed and turn a person into a toot zombie, you are awake and conscious while the person that has taken over your toot controls your actions.
Some robots are meant to be heard but not seen, as with Siri.
I still don’t like “conversing” with an algorithm.
I don’t even like responding to voice mail back and forth.
Sometimes, i have no choice but to play the game.
Sooner that you think, we will have some kind of neural interface, and from there, its only a matter of time.
I’m pretty sure my wife has merged with her coffee machine - don’t think it’s working out all that well for either of them.
Some people might be convincing, but Elon Musk? Nope. I like being fully human.