Wait But Why: Neuralink - Elon's new company

[CynicusRex]

This is a long read, but totally worth it. It's about Elon Musk's new company Neuralink and why we need it. The latter is answered quite thoroughly. http://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html

What amazed me was the perspective of humans as a whole, seen as a single organism, where a single human is a neuron. Separate neurons don't mean anything, it's the collective neurons that count.

tl;dr: We need to merge with computers to not become obsolete by AI.

 

[scottdave]

You were right about it being a long read. At least it will be some time before we will be having to make the decision whether to 'assimilate into Borg'.

 

[strangerep]

tl;dr: We need to merge with computers to not become obsolete by AI.

I wonder if the people who created "Ghost in the Shell" will challenge any of Elon's future (attempted) patents.