TESMANIAN by Evelyn Arevalo July 11, 2020
The Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk, founded Neuralink, a company that is developing a brain-machine interface that could one day restore a variety of brain-related issues, including restoring eyesight and limb functionality, solve memory loss, even cure depression via a brain chip implant. Musk initially aims to focus on the medical aspect of the neural interface, like solving mobility issues with paralyzed individuals. Ultimately, his team aims to achieve ‘symbiosis’ with Artificial Intelligence (AI).
On Thursday, Musk announced Neuralink will host a presentation on August 28 to discuss its brain-chip development progress, “If you can’t beat em, join em. Neuralink mission statement,†he wrote via Twitter, in reference to AI. He believes AI will outsmart the human species and that the only way to ‘beat them’ is if humans achieve a brain-computer connection to have the same level of intelligence.
It may sound crazy, like something out of a science fiction movie but Neuralink scientists, engineers, and doctors are working on the development of this device as you read – “AI symbiosis while u wait,†Musk tweeted July 9.
According to Musk, Neuralink could add a third layer of digital superintelligence in the human brain to avoid AI machine enslavement. He says a “human-AI symbiote†would help “democratize†AI, and that “we don’t have to worry about some evil dictator AI because we are the AI collectively.†Neuralink aims to achieve human connection with AI before the singularity event “to minimize the existential risk for humanity and consciousness as we know it.†He explained the brain has two systems: The first layer is the limbic system which drives impulses. The second layer is the cortex system that tries to control the limbic system by acting as an intelligence layer. The third layer can be Neuralink, sitting on top of those two layers to work together. “Perhaps there can be a tertiary layer where digital superintelligence lies. That will be vastly more intelligent than the cortex but still co-exist peacefully and in a benign manner with the cortex and limbic system,†he said earlier this year.
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