Musk Warns Humans Must Meld With AI Or Be Made Obsolete

[HAB911]

While there has been plenty of conversation over the possibility that robots will replace humans in the work force, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk believes the threat is existential for people. The billionaire warned humans will soon have to learn to communicate with artificial intelligence or face becoming obsolete.

“Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence," Musk said while speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai, according to a report from CNBC. "It's mostly about the bandwidth, the speed of the connection between your brain and the digital version of yourself, particularly output."

Musk, who was at the event to announce the launch of Tesla in the United Arab Emirates, suggested that a merger between humans and machines will be necessary for the species going forward, lest it find itself made irrelevant.

The founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX pointed to the processing power of a computer compared to that of a person’s brain, explaining that computers can communicate at “a trillion bits per second” while humans do so at about 10 bits per second. In other words, people just won’t be able to keep up.

http://www.ibtimes.com/what-artificial-intelligence-teslas-elon-musk-warns-humans-must-meld-ai-or-be-made-2491180

[get the red out]

1. Borg

Resistance is Futile!

[Docreed2003]

2. Cyberman????

[lapfog_1]

3. has he ever been around the average drumpf voter?

AI at least has some intelligence even if it is artificial.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Nothing like overstating your argument to build credibility. nt

[hunter]

5. WTF does that even mean?

"Obsolete" implies there was some purpose to humanity in the first place.

Evolution doesn't work like that. We're not here on earth for any reason. We're just here. There's a great freedom in that. Each of us can choose our own reason.

I think I'll pass on Musk's vision of the future.

His rockets are interesting, insomuch as they'll be used for robotic space exploration. But putting humans in deep space, electric cars, and overly complex and resource intensive home solar systems don't excite me.

[Javaman]

6. the fear of being replaced by robots...

we become the robots.

but wait...

I sit at a desk all day and push electronic paper across it.

I am robot.