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Elon says it, so it must be true:
Humans must become cyborgs and develop a direct high-bandwidth connection with machines or risk irrelevance and obsolescence, says Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk.
Musk's latest cheery thoughts were imparted at the World Government Summit in the UAE. "Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence," Musk said, according to CNBC.
The main thrust of Musk's argument seems to hinge on the limited bandwidth and processing power of a single human being. Computers can ingest, transfer, and process gigabytes of data per second, every second, forever. Meatbags, however, are severely limited by an input/output rate—talking, typing, listening—that's best measured in bits per second. Thus, to risk being replaced by a robot or artificial intelligence, we need to become machines.
(Score: 2) by Snow on Wednesday February 15 2017, @06:27PM
I already have problems sometimes with keeping my mind and mouth in sync. Sometimes my brain gets ahead of my mouth and it just comes out as gibberish, and other times my brain is too slow and I just say stupid things.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday February 15 2017, @07:11PM
I think you've hit on it. The first cyborg upgrade we need for the Internet age is a editorial staff implant.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @09:31PM
As long as Cmdr_taco programs it. You keep TMB away though.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Thursday February 16 2017, @01:15AM
I think you've got the wrong discussion group. Then again I do wish that Commander Taco would join us.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday February 16 2017, @12:58PM
And Cowboy Neal. Let's get the band back together!
Washington DC delenda est.