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Elon Musk Wants To Put An AI Hardware Chip In Your Skull (itmunch.com)
"iTMunch reports that Elon Musk apparently believes that the human race can only be "saved" by implanting chips into our skulls that make us half human, half artificial intelligence," writes Slashdot reader dryriver. From the report: Elon Musk's main goal, he explains, is to wire a chip into your skull. This chip would give you the digital intelligence needed to progress beyond the limits of our biological intelligence. This would mean a full incorporation of artificial intelligence into our bodies and minds. He argues that without taking this drastic measure, humanity is doomed. There are a lot of ethical questions raised on the topic of what humanity according to Elon Musk exactly is, but he seems undeterred. "My faith in humanity has been a little shaken this year," Musk continues, "but I'm still pro-humanity."
The seamless conjunction of humans and computers gives us humans a shot at becoming completely "symbiotic" with artificial intelligence, according to Elon Musk. He argues that humans as a species are all already practically attached to our phones. In a way, this makes us almost cyborg-like. The only difference is that we haven't managed to expand our intelligence to that level. This means that we are not as smart as we could be. The data link that currently exists between the information that we get from our phones or computers is not as fast as it could be. "It will enable anyone who wants to have superhuman cognition," Musk said. "Anyone who wants." As for how much smarter humans will become with these AI chips, Musk writes: "How much smarter are you with a phone or computer or without? You're vastly smarter, actually," Musk said. "You can answer any question pretty much instantly. You can remember flawlessly. Your phone can remember videos (and) pictures perfectly. Your phone is already an extension of you. You're already a cyborg. Most people don't realize you're already a cyborg. It's just that the data rate [...] it's slow, very slow. It's like a tiny straw of information flow between your biological self and your digital self. We need to make that tiny straw like a giant river, a huge, high-bandwidth interface."
The seamless conjunction of humans and computers gives us humans a shot at becoming completely "symbiotic" with artificial intelligence, according to Elon Musk. He argues that humans as a species are all already practically attached to our phones. In a way, this makes us almost cyborg-like. The only difference is that we haven't managed to expand our intelligence to that level. This means that we are not as smart as we could be. The data link that currently exists between the information that we get from our phones or computers is not as fast as it could be. "It will enable anyone who wants to have superhuman cognition," Musk said. "Anyone who wants." As for how much smarter humans will become with these AI chips, Musk writes: "How much smarter are you with a phone or computer or without? You're vastly smarter, actually," Musk said. "You can answer any question pretty much instantly. You can remember flawlessly. Your phone can remember videos (and) pictures perfectly. Your phone is already an extension of you. You're already a cyborg. Most people don't realize you're already a cyborg. It's just that the data rate [...] it's slow, very slow. It's like a tiny straw of information flow between your biological self and your digital self. We need to make that tiny straw like a giant river, a huge, high-bandwidth interface."
Yep, trust is the issue. I'd love to have a built in clock/calendar and calculator, but I'm not sure I'd trust anyone to make one for me.
Then again implants are going to become more and more common, e.g. pacemakers and other kinds of regulators to deal with specific conditions. Given the choice I'd probably accept one, rather than live (or die) without. I'd prefer if they could disable the wifi function though.
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What happens when the AI chip in your brain gets compromised by a hacker? Every day, companies with deep IT pockets ranging from banks to hotel chains get their customer databases pwned by nefarious hackers. Is it really wise to put a - of course completely "unhackable"... cough cough... - internet connected hardware chip inside your SKULL? Even something simple like flooding your brain with too much contradictory or distracting info for a few seconds could cause anything from a car crash to you falling down a staircase and seriously injuring yourself. How, Mr Musk, are you going to make this technology safe from hacking, sabotage, remote tracking or technical malfunction? And will - at some point - only "ChipHeads" be able to do things like drive a car or buy a loaf of bread at the nearest store?
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
"I'm still pro-humanity"... until I'm not. I have tunnels under your cities, satellites over them and rockets able to strike anywhere on earth. "You will be assimilated, resistance is futile!"
You first, Elon.
Every day, Elon and Donald prove that intelligence and wealth are uncorrelated. Musk said you can't achieve anything significant in less than 14 hours of work a day. Only a sleep deprived idiot who can't work intelligently would say that, and putting a chip in his head wouldn't help with that misperception in the slightest. A couple moments if actual thought would lead to the realization that intelligence has very little to do to with humanity's chances of survival. In fact, it's the second biggest risk. The biggest risk is our collective inability to do what we know is right when it's not convenient and has long-term undesirable consequences, but has short-term benefits. Addiction is a fine example of that. This is why I am confident that Musk is an idiot, or to be fair, a fairly unintelligent man with money. He has grandiose ideas that ignore the obvious facts about human beings. He worships at the Altar of Intelligence and styles himself to be an adherent, but then displays a dearth of the very quality each time he opens his mouth. "My cell phone makes me so intelligent because Google can answer any question...except why I didn't put my phone down in the car and got myself killed driving into a tractor trailer."
In a post-scarcity world full of abundance of most basics and no big need to work if you don't want to (like with a basic income or a gift economy or 3D printers and personal robots), why do some unaesthetic and likely unpleasant thing to your brain like stick some hackable chip in it? Why not accept some reasonable limitations put in place by millions of years of evolution about how to have a stable mind and brain? Musk is missing the bigger post-scarcity picture here -- as are most technologists.
A different world view is possible:
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A 21st century issue: the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity.