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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: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday February 15 2017, @09:02PM
I like the idea of having implants that augment my abilities. I don't trust other people to make them or install them in me, though. We know we can't trust any company now with the technology we have. Even with open source the balance of technological power has shifted entirely to one side. It doesn't have to be that way, but it is.
That aside, it would be great to have ultravision or infravision. Super strength, a built-in taser, you name it. Anybody who grew up watching the 6 Million Dollar Man can imagine a whole lot. Even having the neural link Elon was talking about, which would never need recharging and would always be with you, could confer a lot of advantages.
But the technology seems to be outpacing our ability to handle it as a society.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Wednesday February 15 2017, @10:42PM
These themes keep coming up in a British show I've been watching called Black Mirror. Wouldn't it be nice to have implants that recorded everything you ever saw so you could go back and view objectively correct memories? Or are we completely unprepared to face the truth and would be much happier if the people around us could reconstruct that truth into something livable? Wouldn't it be nice if we could block people from interacting with us in the real world? Or would the government abuse this to block certain people from everybody? And when does this intrusion into our private consciousness become a venue for unblockable advertising?
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday February 16 2017, @12:39AM
If your complete input and output streams can be recorded, a neural network could be trained on them to emulate you.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek