Elon Musk: Humans Need To Merge With Machines Else They Will Become Irrelevant in AI Age (cnbc.com) 251
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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Terabit per second??? (Score:2)
huh what? No computers communicate at a terabit per second.
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Machines have been writing most of our code for decades now.
This guy (Score:3, Insightful)
Elon needs to go away. One minute we're all in the fucking Matrix and the next we need to "merge with machines". Pick one you fucking douche bag
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He needs to go away from topics like this because he's an engineer trying to talk about AI as if he has some clue. People seem to forget that Elon's success is largely due to the people who he surrounds himself with and not him specifically. The man is not an expert in all things.
Pretty sure I heard Trump explain that about himself. "I surround myself with the smartest people"
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Yellow Journalism (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."
Re:Yellow Journalism (Score:4, Insightful)
He's probably right, eventually taking your glasses off will be like suffering from some kind of learning disability. All text you see automatically scanned and available for perfect recall, the name of ever person you meet whispered in your ear in case you forgot, any equation instantly solved... And an unquenchable thirst for Pepsi, an uncontrollable urge to buy a Tesla.
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He's probably right, eventually taking your glasses off will be like suffering from some kind of learning disability. All text you see automatically scanned and available for perfect recall, the name of ever person you meet whispered in your ear in case you forgot, any equation instantly solved... And an unquenchable thirst for Pepsi, an uncontrollable urge to buy a Tesla.
It's already sort of the case. Most of modern students are incapable of doing anything if they don't have facebook to ask elder friends for what to search on google. And then they have an unquenchable thirst for Pepsi. Conclusion, you don't need a brain interface to sell crap and render people useless.
The Bullshit is Strong with This One. (Score:4)
He's probably right, eventually taking your glasses off will be like suffering from some kind of learning disability. All text you see automatically scanned and available for perfect recall, the name of ever person you meet whispered in your ear in case you forgot, any equation instantly solved... And an unquenchable thirst for Pepsi, an uncontrollable urge to buy a Tesla.
It's already sort of the case. Most of modern students are incapable of doing anything if they don't have facebook to ask elder friends for what to search on google. And then they have an unquenchable thirst for Pepsi. Conclusion, you don't need a brain interface to sell crap and render people useless.
There is so much bullshit with this. Modern students still learn how to use a library. I know, I see batches of students coming with their teachers all the time to learn how (just like old times.) All colleges make students learn how to use them (just like in old times), etc, etc.
In reality, the ability to search online has made students (and people in general) far more efficient at retrieving information. Obviously, this also has the downside that it makes it easy to plagiarize. But that comes with every technology. You get what you put in, and you put in according to what kind of person you are.
Case in point: my daughter who is in second grade now knows how to use google voice search to check for spelling of words she doesn't know. Then she cross-checks it with her dictionary in English and Japanese (since she is bilingual, and soon to be trilingual if everything goes according plan.)
She has become more efficient at writing her homework reports (while learning how to spell faster) without inducing cheating or sloppy work. It has reduced her frustration while helping her focus on the topics she needs to write. This, at 2nd grade.
This type of efficiency increases a lot more for older students and adults.
Pretending that people now are useless because they leverage electronic searches and social media is like pretending farmers today are useless for using tractors instead of hand-held plows.
In other words, this line of reasoning is both simplistic and stupid.
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It doesn't matter anyway-- the statement is absurd. Humans will never be able to match a machine's pace, even with wires going into their heads. Organic neurons are PAINFULLY slow, with cycle times measured in milliseconds. By comparison, computers are measured in multiples of giga-ops per second.
A human will never be able to adapt to the real output pace of a well written program. Even WITH borg implants.
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We don't need to - we'll let the machines do the data processing and present us the end result, which requires much less data to present.
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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.
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The actual quote is
"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.
Beware of anything in a news article without quotation marks, or is attributed with "according to..." as paraphrasing, which is fair-warning, for good or ill, that the writer is putting his own spin on things.
and "high bandwidth interface to the brain"? Many [slashdot.org] examples [slashdot.org] already [slashdot.org] happening [slashdot.org] in the [slashdot.org] field of [slashdot.org] medicine [scientificamerican.com].
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Actually, the fake news was at CNBC. The article claimed Musk said exactly what Slashdot quoted. It then quoted Musk saying something entirely different.
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They're the same thing though just used for different purposes.
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And it is a lot easier to make them vote for the company-approved candidate in elections, so accidents like the previous elections won't happen again.
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The "everything is a simulation" theory has the same flaw as the "gods created everything" theory: it does not explain what created the simulation or the gods.
Relevant for who or as what? (Score:3)
Borgification (Score:2)
"We are the Musks, resistance is futile."
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Game Time! (Score:2)
I think most people accept that eventually we will have implants that both do their own AI processing as well as interface with other technology. The cell phone will be the first to be integrated.
This will be a huge problem at work as IT will no longer be able to ban games and people will sit at their desks playing games in their heads, prattling of Slashdot and Facebook, and generally screwing off, invisible to the boss.
Re:Game Time! (Score:5, Funny)
Even better when you consider that an improper filter set to prevent this winds up causing seizures for everyone up in HR.
"Be back, in a bit. I have to go reboot Bob again."
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Even better when you consider that an improper filter set to prevent this winds up causing seizures for everyone up in HR.
"Be back, in a bit. I have to go reboot Bob again."
Before we let him make any more decisions, must upgrade him to the Pointy Haired Boss 3.1 firmware.
Solve for Greed first. (Score:5, Interesting)
AI can and probably will ultimately make the concept of human employment extinct. And we probably need to accept that fact faster than any prediction, given the speed at which technology has accelerated just in the last couple of decades.
Humans need to first solve the problem of Greed. Otherwise, the chasm that separates the AI owners and wealthy overlords from the rest of the human race will continue to grow, and they won't give a shit about the demise of the irrelevant meatsack masses.
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Yeah, its a gigantic social problem coming ahead. Capitalism has let the human greed work for it, but if humans don't have to work, only the dividing parts of greed will remain.
Even further, it will be interesting whether and how the new capabilities given by AI will help the enemies of free democratic systems.
I don't think humans as such will become irrelevant. Unless some human programs an AI to defy the orders of humans there won't be any "takeover by AI" I think, so there will be always humans at the to
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...The question is about the remaining 99.99% of humanity.
We really need to figure out how such a society could look like and we need to figure it out fast, because technology doesn't wait.
The answer already exists. We call it "Welfare" today. We'll give it a fancy name like "UBI" tomorrow, but make no mistake, it's the same exact shit, funded in the same shit way.
And when I say shit, I mean the fact that Greed N. Corruption will lobby to ensure fiscal responsibility will start and end at sustaining life, and not a penny more.
Forget the American dream. The Human plan will become nothing more than survival unless we Solve for Greed.
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AI can and probably will ultimately make the concept of human employment extinct. And we probably need to accept that fact faster than any prediction, given the speed at which technology has accelerated just in the last couple of decades.
Humans need to first solve the problem of Greed. Otherwise, the chasm that separates the AI owners and wealthy overlords from the rest of the human race will continue to grow, and they won't give a shit about the demise of the irrelevant meatsack masses.
That's exactly what I said up above...
Re:Solve for Greed first. (Score:4, Insightful)
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Oh, just stop it. Your desire to neither work nor think does not mean that people will stop working and thinking.
People won't stop thinking. At least I sure as hell hope not.
That said, the issue will become one of survival with a society that thrives on the concepts of education and employment as the recognized mechanisms to sustain life.
When there are no human jobs left, the reasons to educate a human start to dwindle, as does motivation.
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Not going to happen. One man's greed is another man's necessity. Some people consider air conditioning and TV to be necessities.
Are you saying they aren't?
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He does have a point... (Score:5, Interesting)
Most of the comments so far have been personal attacks on Musk. I guess this is par for the low level of discourse here.
However, I'd like to see some discussion of his statement.
Would a better connection between humans and machines be beneficial?
What would be the benefits/ problems?
How could this be achieved?
Come on, folks, I have seen much better from you in the past.
Re: He does have a point... (Score:3, Insightful)
Fine, I'll bite.
We dont have Strong AI. We're not even close. We have programs that are written to do certain tasks really well, and learn how to do tasks when we define the rules for them. We are not close to an AI that can learn things without our assistance.
We do not know how the human brain works, much less be able to merge it with anything. We are not even close.
This is a fantasy pipe dream. Elon could say we need to build lightsabers and blockade runners to fight the Empire when they get here, an
Re: He does have a point... (Score:5, Insightful)
I missed the part when Musk said "we need to do X by next Tuesday".
Again, I missed the part when Musk said "we need to do X by next Tuesday".
I missed the part where time ceased progressing and technology ceased advancing.
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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[quote]1) Not in line with physics, and impractical[/quote] Not at all unlike the Hyperloop.
Wait, how is the Hyperloop not in line with physics?
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—Commissioner Pravin Lal,
“Man and Machine”
Re:He does have a point... (Score:4, Interesting)
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Eventually, yes, human/machine merging will be beneficial. We're just not there yet. Maybe it will be fitting us with "memory" to help us store and remember our experiences better. I think we can all see how it might help to be able to "rewind in our mind to last Tuesday night".
As we live longer lives, if we have technology to increase our lifespan dramatically before we wipe ourselves out, there is a real benefit to a longer-lasting brain with more storage and longevity of usefulness.
More powerful limbs
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Most of the comments so far have been personal attacks on Musk. I guess this is par for the low level of discourse here. However, I'd like to see some discussion of his statement. Would a better connection between humans and machines be beneficial?
I'd lean toward "no", with the thinking that a majority of what people end up using technology for today is posting pictures of themselves or their cats on Facebook.
It's true our brains are able to process an incredible amount of information very quickly to make sense of things. Best I can tell that's limited to sensory input, not direction.
What would be the benefits/ problems?
Benefits? We *may* get some robotics technicians able to quickly tell that arm on the assembly line to stop before it hits Dave again. Then again, tha
Re:He does have a point... (Score:4, Interesting)
However, I'd like to see some discussion of his statement.
Would a better connection between humans and machines be beneficial?
What would be the benefits/ problems?
How could this be achieved?
To discuss something meaningfully, you need to have a freakin' clue how it might work. At this point in time, we don't. We don't know how the brain works. We don't have anything close to strong AI. The best interfaces we're looking at now are stuff like moving artificial limbs or whatever. To speculate on what might happen IF we could all of this would be sort of like walking up to Isaac Newton in the 18th century and saying, "Sir Isaac, what problems do you think will occur with the internet next year? What will the major benefits/problems be of new advances?" Even if you explained the basic idea of the internet to Newton, I doubt he'd have enough perspective to meaningfully debate what might happen.
But, having put forth that disclaimer, I'll just note a few complete speculations in response to Musk. First is that his argument seems premised on the idea that a faster interface from brain to world would be beneficial to humans. Maybe it would. OR maybe our brains are somewhat limited in maximum input/output in ways that we can't really understand yet because we've never tried what he's proposing. Typing is about the right "speed of thought" for me to create coherent text. I've tried dictating, and I need to pause, correct, and reword too much for it to be useful to me. That seems to be how my brain works... although if I really needed to, I probably could retrain myself to dictate better.
But what if you increased my potential output by 10-fold, 100-fold, a million-fold. Would that actually be useful for me to interact with the world better or faster? Or would it just result in gibberish because my brain literally can't adapt to working much faster than it already does in USEFUL output? Or maybe the plasticity of the adult brain isn't enough to adapt -- so we try hooking up infants from birth with these things. Maybe it works... or maybe it just drives them to be insane or to have other brain development that effectively renders them LESS functional than "normal" humans. Not saying this WILL happen, but it's a possibility when you're talking about an interface with absolutely NO IDEA on what specs might work. Human brains have spent millions of years evolving into what they are to work efficiently at the speeds they do. Just because you could theoretically hook up a device to increase input/output doesn't mean the brain can actually change and adapt enough to make use of the throughput meaningfully.
Also, I think it's important to note in a discussion like this that one of the PRIMARY hallmarks of human intelligence is FORGETTING. One of the things that makes humans so much better than machines is our ability for abstraction -- finding larger patterns so we don't have to parse the "stream of consciousness" directly all the time. And then we sleep, and our brains revisit the memories of things that we've evolved to assimilate as "important" data, while we forget millions of random little details of our day at the same time.
Effectively, we take a very TINY percentage of the "noise" that is input into our brains and actually remember it in any detail, mostly through complex pattern-matching that we're only even beginning to emulate in specific cases with computer algorithms. But the point is that there's only so much that we CAN assimilate into our brains -- and that goes not just for memories, but for new skills or whatever. (Think about when you've tried to learn a skill by "cramming" for a full day or two vs. when you've done practice for a few minutes/day over weeks or months. Your brain needs the "downtime" to assimilate new skills... increasing input or output seems unlikely to make that process faster.)
My speculation is that Musk's idea is rather pointless for somehow keeping humans "relevant" or whatever. IF w
Firewall? (Score:5, Informative)
Some high bandwidth interface to the brain...
Without a 100% perfection inbound firewall you're not coming anywhere near my brain interface.
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Some high bandwidth interface to the brain...
Without a 100% perfection inbound firewall you're not coming anywhere near my brain interface.
Given the fact that your brain "interface" consists of recognized senses (sight, sound, touch, etc.), am I to assume you are devoid of all of these, or maintain some super-human ability to "firewall" off all input?
Experience and wisdom helps build those firewall rules, but we humans are far from perfect.
Let me guess (Score:2)
Elon Musk is working on building a JC Denton.
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Well, he did also announce that he has a new girlfriend named Motoko Kusinagi...
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That is a seriously scary picture.
...and the benefits would be...what exactly? (Score:5, Interesting)
alternatively: humans only need to communicate at 10 bits, we don't need a trillion bits per second to enjoy life.
But really, isn't the trick to do less, not more? I ain't no worker-bee. I'm jealous of my pet dog sitting on the couch all day while I work at a desk. I want his life -- it's called retirement.
Productivity is the goal of business. Laziness is the goal of life. I've worked hard to be this lazy.
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"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"
Maybe he was mistaking interprocess or CPU interconnect speed with interface speed? Even then, while my output might reach 100WPM (8-9CPS) or by speech maybe 120WPM (there's that 10CPS, or 80BPS), what is the interprocess bandwidth of the typical human brain?
And what does any of this have to do with reality? The tech world
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alternatively: humans only need to communicate at 10 bits, we don't need a trillion bits per second to enjoy life.
Accelerated learning, specially for adults. I could see a whole class of problems being solved with that. I'm not saying that it is practical with today's technology (or that it is completely desirable.) But there is nothing that prevents this from happening within the next 50-100 years (which in the context of human society, that's a blink of an eye.)
But really, isn't the trick to do less, not more? I ain't no worker-bee. I'm jealous of my pet dog sitting on the couch all day while I work at a desk. I want his life -- it's called retirement.
Productivity is the goal of business. Laziness is the goal of life. I've worked hard to be this lazy.
First world problem meets the Is/Ought existential problem. A lot of people worked hard to be lazy in retirement just to see their retirement plans go poof by
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So, you live to work. Enjoy your life -- err, enjoy your work. Enjoy your public transit, working on the way in to work, enjoy your tiny apartment in the big city, enjoy your nutrition-poor food that's never seen soil, enjoy your high mortgage, enjoy your small space, enjoy your virtual vacations -- and your psych bill.
Meanwhile, I'll take my suburban huge house, my fun-to-drive car, my pasture-raised cows, my farm-fresh food, my low mortgage, and, oh yeah, my friends.
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Your assumption that I'm in your country is pretty ignorant of you.
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Your assumption that I'm in your country is pretty ignorant of you.
His observation applies to pretty much every country. Sooner or later, this reality will hit us all.
Ironically.... (Score:2)
"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,"
Once this was achieved humans could outperform self-driving vehicles......
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No. Meat will never be able to match silicon. Neurons have a refractory period that is painfully slow compared to CURRENT silicon.
http://www.physiologyweb.com/l... [physiologyweb.com]
At most, a connected human brain would be a novel input source on a slow but wide bandwidth bus. There is only so much cortex you can put sensors on.
A true AI would be hobbled by adding a human brain.
The Economy Needs to Catch Up (Score:2)
Mr. Musk, this is not a new idea. In the 70's when computer technology was rapidly increasing people were talking about the "expert systems" with which decisions like loan approvals and stock trades could be automated without the need for a human being. We know what direction that technology is headed in and we know that it is going to continue to reduce the need for human workers. The problem is that the economic system is all structured around humans being required to perform labor to support themselve
Humans communicate 10 bits per second? (Score:4)
I didn't read the article. However even if this is bytes there's so much that is missed!
I look at a tree, recognize it and say "tree" in less than a second.
I can throw a ball against a wall and catch it before it hits the ground. Now give me a completely different size/weight ball and I can do the same (within tolerances of weight and size).
There is communication in both of those in which massive amounts of information is consumed and processed. For example the tree, 32 bits of information is relayed. However if I speak it then there is inflection, volume, direction, body language and intent that are all communicated in a short time.
Even though nothing is typed/spoken with the ball there is an output, catching the ball, that requires a tremendous amount of bandwidth utilized by a human.
Human Computer interfaces have a long way to go to catch up to these types of things; however, I think someone is raising an alarm about something that has no near term danger and just from the porn perspective will be developed as soon as is humanly possible. Think Matrix and Mouse pushing the girl in the red dress to Neo... The first in the porn industry to do that get's money from 99% of the world's men and a good portion of the world's women. Same thing happened with VHS....
Porn is inefficient (Score:2)
Not a new idea. Not even close. (Score:2)
It's not even a new idea this century..... This idea goes back to at least the 1970s in anime I saw that merged man and machine together... Hell, the 6 million dollar man merged the two together..
Speed of thought versus speed of speech (Score:2)
Typing is slower than talking.
Talking is slower than thought.
But by how much? This question was relevant to designers of old pen and paper RPGs (who needed to be concerned about how much could be communicated in a combat round, with magical aids such as telepathy and other such things that the game rules allowed), but I've never seen it discussed by like, scientists.
So I googled it.
http://www.livescience.com/578... [livescience.com]
But that seems to mostly cover the latency, not the bandwidth.
Is the bandwidth actually that
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(voice isn't precise enough, typing is cumbersome)
TODAY voice isn't precise enough. Give it 10 years and it will be a lot more accurate. Look how far voice recognition has come in the last 10 years. Millions of people giving Amazon data, talking to Alexa, the process will improve a lot.
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I can't find the source, but I remember reading that speakers of lower entropy languages simply end up speaking faster than speakers of higher entropy languages. E.g. English on average is spoken more slowly than Spanish by native speakers because English has less redundancy, so errors are more likely to affect received meaning. Overall spoken information rate (bps) remains pretty constant.
Our Society Watches Too Much TV (Score:2)
Humans love to be lazy. Always want someone else to do their dirty, hard work. In the end, SOME people get to live lazy and some people are still slaves to these folks. The end game on this will be far, far worse than what you saw on TV or a movie. Grovel in the spew of the rich.
AI isn't Artificial Intelligence (Score:2)
Things can play Go, Poker and Jeopardy and (this is more sinister) approve people for loans and credit cards. But they lack the huge compositional fle
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People make these comments everytime AI is brought up.
No, if you consider AI to be true sapient machine understanding, AI does not exist nor will it exist any time in the near future.
If you're being more liberal with the term and understanding AI as something that can understand vague inputs and can interpret meaning and be somewhat flexible in how it responds... AI has been around for a while. There are multiple "public definitions" and you're simply not going to get a consensus.
There was a time that were
When tinfoil hats don't look so stupid (Score:2)
Great so the next big thing is that we're all gonna be voluntarily turning ourselves into remotely controlled drones.
No thanks. Its already bad enough with cellphones.
Can Elon Musk just STFU? (Score:2)
Ok, ya got lucky with PayPal, you're even somewhat smart. But you're not the second coming of Jesus, and the world does not need to hear about every little thought you fart out.
(though I still like you better than the Orange Menace.)
i have a metal strap holding my pelvis together (Score:2)
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. . . . (Score:2)
. . . YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED INTO THE MUSK COLLECTIVE. . . .
Really, Slashdot ? "News for Nerds", over an hour, and no Star Trek "Borg" references ??
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Some people need to accept reality before augmenting it.
Humans ARE merging with machines! (Score:2)
Brain interface to Internet of Shit (Score:2)
What about the horrible security problems this will likely entail?
Like, you're having fun in your thought-controlled robotic bipedal tank, and as your interface is botnetted, someone else decides to have fun and make you crash into a store front. Or :
- You get sent Goatse, tubgirl or (famous short brazilian movie) and still see it if you close or cover your eyes, and even if you try to run away from it.
- They get you to pee your pants
- They mess with your vestibular sense inputs (the human version of motion
Um . . . no (Score:2)
Based on what we see today with machines and software, we're all pretty aware of the fact that we don't own any of it. Especially those machines that require code to function.
Imagine your machine implant was made by Microsoft / Apple / Google / Etc who mandates that you will accept periodic software updates to keep it in " top operating condition " and in no way, shape or form would they use any telemetry data gleaned from your prosthetic for any purposes whatsoever. :|
Your implant would also probably get
Re:Elon Musk: What's this guy smoking? (Score:5, Funny)
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It's funny, if I start spouting crazy shit people tell me I'm crazy and might give me two dollars.
If you are rich and crazy then people want to give you two hundred million to try your idea.
Just so everyone is clear... I probably earn way more then you do. So let's invest in my device to detect the shadow people and destroy them.
Re:Elon Musk: What's this guy smoking? (Score:4, Interesting)
Yeah, rich people don't get a lot of reality checks from their hired help. I just wish people were better at differentiating between Hollywood and real life. I hope Elon has a computer surgically implanted in his brain to show everyone how dumb an idea it is.
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The man wants to create the borg collective.
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The brain machine interface exists today, moron. Check it out [wikipedia.org].
The tech is primitive. But as it gets refined, the potential benefits will be far too valuable to overlook. This is a fucking great idea!
You are just one of those people who can't use the power of reason to look past the familiar.
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I hope Elon has a computer surgically implanted in his brain to show everyone how dumb an idea it is.
I don't think it's that dumb. Imagine if instead of having to manually perform math in your head, you had your result just as soon as you could mentally build the function; no need to pull out a piece of paper or type in LaTex, and you understand the entire process, even if your biological brain parts don't (you don't mentally understand how your biological brain parts work anyways, so what's the difference?) Or suppose you wanted to build a list of objects algorithmically, and instead of needing to open up
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It's funny, if I start spouting crazy shit people tell me I'm crazy and might give me two dollars.
Even more funny, claim to hear the voice of God in your head and you're enlightened in certain circles of people but claim to hear the voice of Elvis in your head telling you what to do and you're off to the insane asylum
Re:Elon Musk: What's this guy smoking? (Score:4, Insightful)
It is not money that gives Elon credibility, but his list of accomplishments.
He has a track record of turning ideas into reality, so people pay attention.
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Yep.
And Stephen Hawking [bbc.com], too.
Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind
No. (Score:2, Insightful)
The concept of bio-integration is quite old. The part-man-part-machine being has been a common theme in popular science fiction for as long as I can remember.
So, one need not use drugs to come up with these ideas. In fact, the scifi authors who came up with these ideas probably didn't need drugs either...they just thought things through.
Seriously, this isn't that weird nor does it require that much creativity to imagine it.
And further, since humans today have machines integrated with them, it is likely th
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Wow..these super rich types much be smoking some killer, killer shit.....
I'm guessing it's not all that extraordinary shit. Decent college-dorm shit is quite good enough. There's always that one guy/girl at the party who says some crazy "I wanna machine that taps into my MIND, man!" and everyone paying attention says "Oh yeah! That'd be sooooooo grrrrrreat!" as Santanna's "Black Magic Woman" starts rolling on the sound machine.
The only difference is nobody from mainstream media is picking it up and putting it out as killer clickbait, 'cause some editor thinks it's Musk and wha
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It's Deep Blue, and that was in 1997, under 20 years ago. AI that can beat experts in Go (a much harder task) was achieved just late last year.
And I'm sorry, but if you haven't noticed how much better neural nets have gotten in the past 10 years, or even the past five, or even the past two, you haven't been paying attention. The last company I worked for used them to dissect brain scans, and that was 5 years ago. Now they're embedded into things like image searching, text translation tools, voice recognit
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First they wanted to give us chip implants to track us for satan's army, now they want to give us robotic endoskeletons? WHAT NEXT MUSK!?
They could always give us wheels and allow us to plug ourselves into the wall to charge before driving around.