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

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 Phoenix666 on Thursday February 16 2017, @12:58PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday February 16 2017, @12:58PM (#467769) Journal

    And Cowboy Neal. Let's get the band back together!

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