Elon Musk’s Plan To Merge Humans With A.I.
Between running the show at Tesla and sending his SpaceX rockets into outer space, it’s surprising that Elon Musk still has time for his many ambitious side hustles. His latest bit on the site neuralink has flown under the radar for the past few years, but it’s now captivating the world’s attention for a reason that’s as intriguing as it is scary. Musk suggests that neuralink will facilitate his mission to merge humans with artificial intelligence and subsequently save the human race from AI.
Most of Musk’s businesses run off the backbone of forward-thinking technology but one piece of tech but musk openly fears is AI. He firmly believes that artificial intelligence is the biggest threat to the human race and that advancements in its technology is a dangerous game for us all to be playing. It sounds a little far-fetched to think that AI could literally wipe out life as we know it but musk isn’t alone in his worries. In its current narrow form AI can already outperform humans at literally any mental task from solving equations to playing chess but if we were to unleash its full potential and develop AI into a wide form of intelligence it could and would outperform humans in every way imaginable especially if we partner it up with robotics.
Musk sees only one way of escaping the impending doom of an AI facilitated human extinction and that is to somehow merge our own intelligence with machine intelligence. Without realizing we are all already somewhat merged with machine intelligence by merely owning a smartphone and having access to the internet with the World Wide Web at our fingertips we are countless times smarter than without. The only limitation that we have is speed of searching for information using the internet is slow, in the way that we have to find read and process before we can relay any information back out, all of this takes time. The goal of neuralink is to make this connection between man and machines seamless and the best way to do that is to physically merge the two together using a microchip brain implant.
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