Post by flyingsquirrel on Apr 25, 2017 15:00:06 GMT
www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2017/04/elon_musk_s_ideas_all_sound_unhinged_that_s_the_point.html
This sounds a bit like some of the more far-reaching interpretations of what the ME3 Synthesis ending could mean, and it even references the potential threat of superintelligent AI. (I haven't yet read the original article, so I don't know if Musk actually talks about "machines taking over the world" or if that's just some ironic hyperbole by this author - I suspect probably the latter.)
This sounds a bit like some of the more far-reaching interpretations of what the ME3 Synthesis ending could mean, and it even references the potential threat of superintelligent AI. (I haven't yet read the original article, so I don't know if Musk actually talks about "machines taking over the world" or if that's just some ironic hyperbole by this author - I suspect probably the latter.)
This time, we’re told, the concept may be his craziest yet. Confirming a Wall Street Journal report from last month, the explainer site Wait But Why on Thursday laid out Musk’s vision for a company called Neuralink whose goal is nothing less grandiose than to change the fundamental nature of human communication forever. Its plan is to embed computer chips in our brains that will eventually facilitate what Musk calls “consensual telepathy” between people. This could make possible an era in which people beam thoughts and images directly into one another’s minds, obviating the need for language. And that’s a good thing, Musk tells Wait But Why’s Tim Urban, because superintelligent A.I. is coming, and we’re going to need to be way smarter if we want to stop the machines from taking over the world and subjugating the human race. Whew!
