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Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way?
Submitted 1 year ago by _number8_@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23899981/elon-musk-ai-neuralink-brain-computer-interface
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alienanimals@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ram@bookwormstory.social 1 year ago
Downvote Elon Musk spam spam.
The billionaire doesn’t need a PR team to downplay his outright foolishness. Don’t be a useful idiot.
Gamoc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just try be clear, you’re saying this article that suggests Elon musk will literally physically destroy people’s actual real brains in search of profit after similarly murdering hundreds of monkeys is promoting him?
Miclux@lemmings.world 1 year ago
Regarding the brain damage, it looks like he tested it by himself.
smallaubergine@kbin.social 1 year ago
Unfortunately the damage has been on the animals. https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-deaths/
Funny that the very long vox article doesn't mention the wired investigation
PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I half expect him to walk out of X with usable wings on one day. He’ll then obviously, fly too close to the sun.
db2@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
He’s a genius though, he’d obviously go at night when it’s dark and cooler.
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Icky-rus Elon
squiblet@kbin.social 1 year ago
They got 'bid adieu' to the birds, though. Bird wasn't cool enough for Elron.
YashaB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
and it worked like a charm…
darq@kbin.social 1 year ago
If you are allowing a company that Elon Musk of all people is involved in to operate on your head, maybe the damage has already been done.
I'm all for transhumanism, and I sincerely hope that the people who are hopeful for Neuralink to be therapeutic for their condition find some relief. But nobody should trust anything Elon Musk touches with their brain.
Fades@lemmy.world 1 year ago
can literally only end in disaster, just like the monkeys that were tortured to death for Musk’s neuralink bullshit (he wants to rush to human testing btw)
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 year ago
I’m all for it. Let any idiot that wants to allow that asshole to put a chip in their head get it. They can all speedrun themselves out of society.
yoz@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I read it somewhere that these monkeys are bred for testing purpose just like chickens and cows are bred for human consumption but not sure how true it is.
tekila@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just as it still makes it not right for cows and chickens it makes it not right for monkeys. Or would you be OK if I was breeding humans for slavery purposes?
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 year ago
Elon wants to do this, Elon wants to do that…
Shut up Elon.
dontcarebear@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This NEEDS to be open source, or the EULA will look like a war criminal’s defence speech.
Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social 1 year ago
You hereby give Daddy Musk the right to:
- power of attorney
- collect sensitive information such as pin numbers and passwords
- insert ads into your dreams and waking thoughts
- monitor, influence, regulate, and terminate all subconscious and conscious thought as deemed necessary
- stream your vision during sexy time
Starkstruck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The biggest reason to never put anything like this in your brain is the idea that they could put ads in your brain.
crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Could?? No, not could. Will.
kromem@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean, the high likelihood of developing an infection in your brain seems maybe a bit more concerning, but to each their own I guess.
HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 1 year ago
Ads are kind of like brain infections if you think about it
Starkstruck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Of course, I just meant more in the hypothetical ‘this technology is safe for human use and is being widely adopted’ stage.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Even if it was medically safe that’s still your least concern when it comes to IoT devices and network security.
Gerula@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Are there people still naive enough to believe this conman?
Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 1 year ago
Imagine delivering your vulnerable brain willingly to a troll like Musk
PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Seems like a better use of my brain at least.
Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 1 year ago
Even your brain is worth more than that. Give it a hug.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I notice Elon has never signed up to go up in one of his rockets. I wonder how quickly he’ll sign up to get one of his brain implants?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
Let Elon go first. He can’t possibly damage his brain more.
TwoGems@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hopefully his own
tdawg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Personally I’m a fan of us further researching biological advancements for aiding people. Stuff like genetic engineering is amazing. Like to imagine there’s a future were you could get a yearly shot of anti-cancer bio-bots that basically clean your system. Or a shot for anti-senescence that repairs DNA and resets the clock on your cells
richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 1 year ago
They will sell you biochips with expiration dates and the updates will be increasingly expensive. If you don’t pay they’ll dissolve and you’ll end as a drooling idiot at 50.
db2@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
They can call it Enmuskification.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Of all Elon Musk’s exploits — the Tesla cars, the SpaceX rockets, the Twitter takeover, the plans to colonize Mars — his secretive brain chip company Neuralink may be the most dangerous.
Former Neuralink employees as well as experts in the field alleged that the company pushed for an unnecessarily invasive, potentially dangerous approach to the implants that can damage the brain (and apparently has done so in animal test subjects) to advance Musk’s goal of merging with AI.
The letter warned that “AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity” and went on to ask: “Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us?
If the intravascular approach can restore key functioning to paralyzed patients, and also avoids some of the safety risks that come with crossing the blood-brain barrier, such as inflammation and scar tissue buildup in the brain, why opt for something more invasive than necessary?
Which perhaps helps make sense of the company’s dual mission: to “create a generalized brain interface to restore autonomy to those with unmet medical needs today and unlock human potential tomorrow.”
Watanabe believes Neuralink prioritized maximizing bandwidth because that serves Musk’s goal of creating a generalized BCI that lets us merge with AI and develop all sorts of new capacities.
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crossfadedragon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He wants to merge with ai? He can start by sleeping with mark Zuckerberg.
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 1 year ago
We’re all living in the times before consciousness can be preserved, but someone will figure out how to do it eventually.
I don’t think it’s going to be Elon Musk.
kromem@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or you’re living in the times after it already was, with the tech later being used to replicate the earlier state of the world, and just aren’t aware of it.
Time isn’t necessarily linear.
Especially when we’re discussing a local future involving merging human consciousness and AI.
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 1 year ago
Wait, am I in the matrix?
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We’re all living in the times before consciousness can be preserved
It makes no sense.
Nobody knows if that is going to happen at all. We only know that it has not happened yet.
In the same way you can say that we’re all living in the times before our colony on Alpha Centauri takes us over.
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 1 year ago
Ok, maybe it’s optimistic to expect that we’ll definitely get there one day, but I hope that we do.
GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 1 year ago
Heaps
7fb2adfb45bafcc01c80@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s already been done, and will soon be revealed…
In the middle of his cage match with Mark Zuckerberg, Musk will say “No, I am your father.” After Zuck yells “Noooo!” he’ll follow up with, “Well, just the AI parts.”
Red_October@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Don’t worry, anyone who agrees to try it was obviously brain damaged already, so no real loss.
Jaysyn@kbin.social 1 year ago
Elon Musk says a lot of stupid things.
Whirlgirl9@kbin.social 1 year ago
Cyberpsychos immanent...who needs to wait for 2077...
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Technically that kind of thing existed as far back as today in their universe.
RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sorry but tech has some privacy and technology abandonment issues to sort out before i want to put it in my body.
CarlsIII@kbin.social 1 year ago
That sentence makes no sense and I don’t want to find out what it means.
crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
More or less than the monkeys?
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
c’mon bro, trust this lunatic
HoloTheWolf@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Whenever someone brings up a topic like this, I’m always reminded of a book I read as a kid. M.T. Anderson’s Feed
sucricdrawkcab@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This sounds like the beginning of RoboCop 2. Specifically the part when OCP is trying to make a new RoboCop and the test RoboCops flip out. That’s kinda how I see this playing out.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Mad Science Needs Zombies
Stephen King could probably do a good treatment of the concept. Or AI Michael Crichton.
Flabbergassed@artemis.camp 1 year ago
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_number8_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
another smaller horror of this is: there will 1000% be ads. zero percent chance there will not be ads. even worse, people will be understandably reticent about ads at first, and services will be advertised without ads. then they’ll become subscriptions with ads. just like everything else.
twitter.com/todayininfosec/…/1001834788037128193
advertising is cancer.
agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 1 year ago
(he)adblocker
Fester@lemm.ee 1 year ago
For your comfort and convenience, this update deactivates the part of your brain that makes you think you dislike advertisements.
superduperenigma@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The credit card on file has expired, please update your payment information within 72 hours or you will lose access to your brain function.
ackzsel@kbin.social 1 year ago
The function of an ad is to manipulate your behavior. If an implant can do this directly ads aren't needed anymore.
Sudomeapizza@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’ll just be WallE all over again!