Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way?
Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way?
Neuralink has implanted a chip in its first human brain. But it’s pushing a needlessly risky approach, former employees say.
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If definitely seems dystopian, but hopefully this ends up helping some people who are quadriplegic.
There’s a shit ton of people I’d trust more with this work than Elon
Absolutely. However through his maniacal adventures he may find where this technology should NOT go to progress.
Hopefully the people elon's persuading to do this work are better aligned.
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Except it doesn't.
Don't overlook the 'Fi' in 'SciFi.'
Aspects of tech are often correctly predicted in SciFi going all the way back to Lucian writing about a ship of men flying up to the moon in the 2nd century.
But surrounding what they often get right the authors always get things wrong too. For example, contrary to Lucian's ideas, in reality the ship of men that flew up to the moon didn't find a race of human like aliens that were only men who could carry children and had a bunch of gay sex with the men of Apollo-11.
TL;DR: Correctly predicting a technology in a story doesn't mean correctly predicting the social impact and context for that technology.
Why do you think we never went back?
It will for sure.
In the short term.
The problem is the implants can and very likely will cause very serious complications in the long term.
My SO is a neurologist who visibly cringes wherever I mention brain implants as we discuss emerging tech (my wheelhouse).