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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @07:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @07:05PM (#467535)

    The low "bits per second" figure did not come from the thin air in Elon's skull:

    https://www.researchgate.net/post/Estimates_of_quantified_human_sensory_system_throughput10 [researchgate.net]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @11:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @11:28PM (#467646)

    you and parent are talking about different things.
    Parent is underlining human efficient signal processing relating to sensing and movement.
    You and Musk are referring to the efficiency of human vs. machine in some calculations and data retrieval tasks.