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Elon Musk: Humans Need To Merge With Machines Else They Will Become Irrelevant in AI Age (cnbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the shape-of-things-to-come dept.

Billionaire Elon Musk is known for his futuristic ideas. So it didn't come as a surprise when on Monday at the World Government Summit in Dubai, he predicted that over time we will see a "closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence." He added, via a CNBC report: "It's mostly about the bandwidth, the speed of the connection between your brain and the digital version of yourself, particularly output." Musk explained what he meant by saying that computers can communicate at "a trillion bits per second", while humans, whose main communication method is typing with their fingers via a mobile device, can do about 10 bits per second. In an age when AI threatens to become widespread, humans would be useless, so there's a need to merge with machines, according to Musk. "Some high bandwidth interface to the brain will be something that helps achieve a symbiosis between human and machine intelligence and maybe solves the control problem and the usefulness problem," Musk explained.

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  1. Yellow Journalism by Spazmania · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Humans Need To Merge With Machines?" Reading the article it turns out Musk said nothing of the sort. He actually said, "we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence."

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  2. Re: He does have a point... by Rei · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We dont have Strong AI.

    I missed the part when Musk said "we need to do X by next Tuesday".

    We do not know how the human brain works

    Again, I missed the part when Musk said "we need to do X by next Tuesday".

    This is a fantasy pipe dream.

    I missed the part where time ceased progressing and technology ceased advancing.

    Elon could say we need to build 1) lightsabers and 2) blockade runners to fight 3) the Empire when they get here

    1) Not in line with physics, and impractical
    2) Does not describe a concrete thing with traits arguably superior to alternatives
    3) Does not exist, with no prospect of it existing... (...depending on how strictly you want to define it, either A) "... any time soon", or B) "... ever."

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