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Elon Musk Explains About NeuraLink!!! · Elon Musk Thinking

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  Explain what neuralink is and what the goal of it is. We put a
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  chip in your brain to control your mind. Yeah, okay, all right,
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  concerns, Yeah, jump right in, step right up, who wants
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  one? So neuralink you'll be able to see neural link coming from a very
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  long distance because any device that you implanted in a human is you have to
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  go through a million, so many tests. It moves very slowly. You
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  just do a few people at a time and then you go to extreme lengths
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  to prove safety. You have to go through the FDA approvals. Like we're
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  not trying to side step any you know, regulatory approvals doing everything. You
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  buy the book and with maximum we're really actually we're going far beyond what the
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  requirements are of the FDA from a safety standpoint, and the initial devices will
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  really just be pretty basic. It'll be about restoring functionality to people who've lost
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  their connection between their their brain and their body. So you can imagine like
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  if say Stephen Hawking could talk communicate as fast as somebody with a fully functioning
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  body, that'll be amazing. So that's like the what we're trying to do
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  that that's our first application is to restore functionality to quatter fleix, tetraplegics and
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  people who have just for whatever reason, no longer have a connection between or
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  if a limited connection between their their their their brain and their body. And
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  then the second application would be restoration of eyesight. So if somebody's gone completely
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  blind, maybe even just lost the optic nerve, you can actually still directly
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  assimilate the neurons in the visual part of the cortex, so you can give
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  direct vision to the brain. In fact, you could actually depending upon what
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  cameras you use, you can actually see in different wavelengths. Okay, you
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  know, like Jory LaForce from like you know, because I have that,
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  Like I actually watched like an episode of Start Take the Next Generation with special
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  effects compared to what we're used to, like you know, not that great,
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  but he's got like the wrap round you know, glasses, and you
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  can see in different wavelengths, so you can see like ultra violet, infrared
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  and that kind of thing. So you can actually do that. You could
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  say, like you could see in radar if you want. And what's the
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  what's the long term what's the long term goal for it? Because I think
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  myself and others I think the first part is the first part sounds sounds fine,
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  sounds yeah, that's like card argue with yeah yeah. But long term,
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  I think, I mean, the concern that people have is is this
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  just leading us into this dystopian transhumanist future? Where where does it go?
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  What are the what are the ethical boundaries of it? Well, I mean
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  the thing I wanted to empasize is that it's not going to like sort of
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  pounce on us overnight. You'll see it coming. It's going to be very
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  slow. In fact, I really think that artificial general intelligence or digital superintelligence
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  is likely to arrive before we have really advanced in your links at least that's
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  where the trend is right now. But ultimately the idea would be to achieve
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  symbiosis between our biological mind and our kind of digital mind. So we're already
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  kind of a cyborg. If you think of like your phone and your computers
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  as an extension of yourself. In fact, like if you leave your phone
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  behind, it's like you have missing limbs syndrome. You're like, where do
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  it go? You know, And so the phone is kind of an extension
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  of ourselves, like computer is. The various applications that we use are an
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  extention of self. So we are already a cyborg. It's just that the
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  interfaces with our eyes and our fingers and and that that interface especially output.
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  The rate at which we can type words into a phone or a computer just
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  it's very slow. Our input is much better because with the data rate from
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  vision is you know, I don't know, many thousands of times maybe a
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  million times better than the rate of which we can output. So input is
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  like maybe roughly a million times better than output. And so so what what
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  a neural device can do is improve that bandwidth, allow allow you to be
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  sort of much more symbiotic with your the AI extension of yourself. So you
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  can think of like like a human brain really is could be augubly divided into
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  two parts. One is kind of like the primitive brain, the reptile brain
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  it's sometimes called, you know, it's like got a sort of basic instinct.
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  And then we've got the cortex, like the higher level thinking, planning
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  and that kind of thing. The two operate symbiotically. So I haven't yet
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  met anyone who wants to delete their olympic system or deleat their cortex. Everyone's
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  quite happy having both they're like, I like that the way there is,
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  you know, but your cortex is way smarter than your Olympic system. So
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  but the irony is that even though the cortex is way smarter than the Limbic
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  system, most of what it's doing, you're trying to make the Olympic system
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  happy. It's like Limbic systems hunky hungry. Okay, let's get some food.
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  The Olympic system is horny. Okay, let's you know, have sex
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  or whatever. See, I mean the sheer amount of of of effort,
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  the you know, the cortexes have of all the humans have put into trying
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  to get laid is insane. It's got to keep the species gone. Yeah,
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  but it's not even with even if you know, it's not for appropriate
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  like the like the Limbic system is. It's it's really like too simple to
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  understand that, like sex does not resulting in procreation because for almost all of
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  human existence that it did. Both control is a very recent thing. So
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  the Limbic system is like trying to insent procreation. And but but now we
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  can effectively hack Thelympic system by doing procreation, but by having sex without a
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  procreation. So which is I guess maybe part of the issue with you know,
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  why do we have more kids is like in the past, that would
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  just happened because you know, in order to make the limbic system happy,
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  you'd have sex. You didn't have both control, so you pop out some
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  goods. Yes, So that's that's how it used to be. So so
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  so so even though you've got cortex that's way smarter than the limbic system,
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  the cortex is still basically just trying to make the limbic system happy. And
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  and then if you think of like the computers as a sort of a third
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  layer, the AI is a third layer. It's not necessarily the case that
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  the AI would be acting contrary to our interests. I think if it's closely
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  linked with a biological intelligence, I think it could actually be just again trying
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  to make the cortex happy, which is trying to make the limit system happy.
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  So I think we'll put even more computing power to try to get laid.
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  Basically, now the AI is going to help you get laid. I
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  think. I think what it is that that concerns people about it number one,
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  you know number one being new, But I think the main thing is
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  is the the fact that this is something that's like inside inside your body.
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  Right, I think that the idea of putting a chip ins the idea of
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  someone putting a chip in my brain. I just have a bit, I
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  have a visceral. No, I have I have a very an optional thing.
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  I mean it's going to you know, would it would it be the
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  long term? I mean, I hope so I think it should be optional
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  too bizarre if it was not. No, I think it's kind of like
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  kind What was the reason I ask? Is because smartphones right now are sort
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  of optional. But if you don't have a smartphone the way everything is sort
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  of designed around society, you, yes, you cannot have a smartphone,
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  but it's a massive hindrance and disadvantage in many ways. True, a smartphone
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  is almost essentral and a mout in society to do things. Yeah, so
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  could a neuralink end up in that same sort of place. It's possible,
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  But I'm just saying if it does, it's it's it's many decades from now,
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  so it's not like, you know, it's not today's problem. Yeah,
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  I'd worry about more about digital superintelligence. I'd worry about let's try to
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  avoid world War three, let's sure we're at least having enough kids to sustain
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  our population, you know, basic stuff like that. Yeah, what's your
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  greatest concern with artificial intelligence? Because I know that you have worked with it,
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  but also I know it's something that you personally have massive concerns about as
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  well, which you've voiced in this podcast and elsewhere. Yeah. I think
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  that actually the most likely outcome for artificial intelligence is that it is good.
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  That it will improve our lives most likely, but there's some chance that it
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  will not, And I think we just need to be cognizant of that and
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  understand that it's a powerful technology. It's a double edged sword, and we
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  need to put a lot of effort into ensuring that we have a good AI
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  outcome and not a bad one. What does a good one look like?
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  Well, if I'd recommend people to read the in Banks books, the culture
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  books, that's the best representation of a positive AI human future that I've seen.
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  Okay, so that's my recommendation. I mean it effectively a I I
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  think it will massively enhance human ability. It's like just a massive amplifier of
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  human ability, just like the computer was. So really is just a question
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  of like does does it the some risk that it doesn't merely amplify human activity,
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  but it starts basically just being in charge. And you know there's some
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  risk at me view humanity negatively and decide that we're a blied on the earth.
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  Like like I think, like a very dangerous thing would be if if
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  the if the sort of human extinctionist philosophy somehow got into AI, that would
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  be bad. Like that guy that was part page in The York Times saying,
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  you know, the eight billion people on Earth, we don't want him
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  coding it. We don't want him coding you. Yeah, nice to say
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  what. And there's quite a few people in the cicular words who have that
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  either explicit or implicit extinctionis sphere. Yes, whether if your humanity is a
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  blight on the face the Yeah, there's a lot of anti natalists in the
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  in the world and people who actually anti human yes, yes, like you
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  said, people who don't have the pride in being human, right, these
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  people guilty or even say that that's a speciesism you know that's yeah. Yeah,
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  I mean I'm a human supremacist. I'll be open about that one.
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  Yeah. I mean I think we've got to fight for team Human, Like,
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  if we don't fight for as humans, who who will? Yeah?
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  I mean if the Earth exists and humans do not, then it's like we're
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  saving the planet for who at that point. Yeah. What do you think
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  about AI replacing jobs though, because that's a that's a big concern. Even
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  if AI doesn't sort of go rogue and start doing something directly horrible, I
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  think a lot of people's concerns is just, hey, what about everyone's jobs.
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  I will certainly be very disruptive because jobs will be different. So now
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  I think the rate of change, the rate the change coursed by AI is
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  it's going to be pretty radical, so that there will you know, a
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  lot of jobs that are that currently exist won't exist in the future. But
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  I think there will be new jobs. And I do think like in a
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  benign AI scenario, we will really have an age of abundance the I think
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  really goods and services unless they are artificially made scarce, like like it's specialized
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  artwork, or you want that particular house in that neighborhood, like it has
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  been artificial scarcity. But anything that has not made artificially scarce will be plentiful,
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  as in a benign AI scenario, you'll be able to have any products
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  and services you want that anyone will. Is that not start to cause a
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  whole new level of problems? Yeah, it does. It's like it's it's
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  like, you know, there's there's some things which sound like like a a
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  blessing but may in fact be a curse. Like I think you will live
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  forever. It sounds like a blessing, it's actually a curse. You would
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  not want to live forever. You don't know how long forever it is.
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  And if you say, another potential curse is you can have anything you want
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  effortlessly. Are you sure you want that? Yeah? Does anything matter at
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  that point? Yeah? And what about the value? I mean, I
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  think a lot of the value of work isn't just getting money to buy things.
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  It's the meaning, it's the purpose, it's knowing that you worked for
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  this thing. Right, It's different. It's different to get ten million dollars
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  because someone just gave you ten million dollars, or you want a lottery versus
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  you created a business and sold products and services that helped you to earn that
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  money exactly. So it's like, how do we find meaning and relevance?
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  If you have an age of abundance where the computer you just ask for anything
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  and get it, it is something we'll have struggle with that that'll that'll be
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  I don't know, it's I think that's kind of most likely when we're headed
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  is an age of abundance, but it will definitely cause some existential angst.
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  What are you most optimistic about? In fact, if you just say,
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  like, like for a neural link device, I mean, part of what
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  I'm hoping is here in a benign AI scenario, like, how do we
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  even go along for the ride? How do we even understand the AI?
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  Like if you've got some sort of you know, incredible intelligence unless we do
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  sort of effectively have better symbiosis, increase the bandwidth to our the AI extension
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  of ourselves, effectively augment our human intelligence, and substantially we may not even
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  be able to appreciate the wonders that will exist in the future.