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: 1) by khallow on Wednesday February 15 2017, @07:43PM
The cyborg underlings are easy to control since they have DRM installed in their brains. They'd crack it if only they had the free will to do so. After you've been upgraded, you'll wish that you had died instead.
Unless, of course, that doesn't happen. I guess that's the little problem with pulling predictions out of your ass like that.
(Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Wednesday February 15 2017, @07:51PM
just as likely (if not more so) than the predictions you pull out of your ass, sallow, callow, khallow...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday February 15 2017, @09:19PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @10:12PM
Unless, of course, that doesn't happen.
Little know fact: the prototype versions are already among us. They do things like post diaries defending the rich from being blamed. However, since the programming is still in the rough stages, it is possible to identify them.
(Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Thursday February 16 2017, @12:15AM
They do things like post diaries defending the rich from being blamed.
As opposed to bleating about the "ownership class"? I can't help but notice the behavior I complained about in my journal [soylentnews.org] being exhibited once again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 16 2017, @03:00AM
Look! They even out them selves! Silly Cyborgs!