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Humans Must Become Cyborgs to Survive, Says Elon Musk

posted by on Wednesday February 15 2017, @05:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the ummm-what? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday February 15 2017, @06:47PM

    by Bot (3902) on Wednesday February 15 2017, @06:47PM (#467517) Journal

    If we implant ourselves in meatbags which will rule over the other?

    I guess the meatbag if the meatbag is one of the elite, the elite, through us, if the cyborg is a peon.

    And all of this to do what? work more? Sounds like a deal.

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  • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday February 15 2017, @06:55PM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Wednesday February 15 2017, @06:55PM (#467528)

    Who can say? It's all speculative at this point.

    On an *entirely* unrelated note, watch the new Ghost in the Shell trailer! [youtube.com] Don't miss Ghost in the Shell, starring Scarlett Johansson, and releasing on March 31, 2017.