to deal with superintelligent AI
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It’s the year 2021. A quadriplegic patient has just had one million “neural lace” microparticles injected into her brain — becoming the world’s first human with a wireless implanted brain-mind interface and empowering her as the first superhuman cyborg. …
No, this is not a science-fiction movie plot. It’s the actual first public step — just four years from now — in Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s business plan for his latest new venture, Neuralink. It’s now explained for the first time on Tim Urban’s WaitButWhy blog.
The Article discusses
- Dealing with the superintelligence existential risk
- Becoming one with AI — a good thing?
- “Just an engineering problem”
My Opinion
I'm not convinced that human level AI is possible anytime soon. I'm even less convinced that super-normal AI is possible at ALL.
But just because I see no compelling evidence doesn't mean it can't happen.
I am convinced that the mind/machine interface can be improved. I've seen it in my lifetime. First there was physically rewiring the computer in order to program it. Then there was programming via such things as paper tape, punched cards and the like. Eventually it advanced to the Keyboard and the CommandLine Interface.
Notice any improvements since then?
Direct Neural interface both invasive and inductive is happening now. Like the last bullet point indicated. It's merely an engineering problem.
Such things as neural lace and other forms of direct neural interfacing is worth doing in their own right. If it saves us from being conquered by an AI...that's just icing on the cake.
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