Elon Musk Wants To Put An AI Hardware Chip In Your Skull

'iTMunch reports that Elon Musk apparently believes that the human race can only be 'saved' by implanting chips into our skulls that make us half human, half artificial intelligence,' writes Slashdot reader dryriver. From the report: Elon Musk's main goal, he explains, is to wire a chip into your skull. This chip would give you the digital intelligence needed to progress beyond the limits of our biological intelligence. This would mean a full incorporation of artificial intelligence into our bodies and minds. He argues that without taking this drastic measure, humanity is doomed. There are a lot of ethical questions raised on the topic of what humanity according to Elon Musk exactly is, but he seems undeterred. 'My faith in humanity has been a little shaken this year,' Musk continues, 'but I'm still pro-humanity.' The seamless conjunction of humans and computers gives us humans a shot at becoming completely 'symbiotic' with artificial intelligence, according to Elon Musk. He argues that humans as a species are all already practically attached to our phones. In a way, this makes us almost cyborg-like. The only difference is that we haven't managed to expand our intelligence to that level. This means that we are not as smart as we could be. The data link that currently exists between the information that we get from our phones or computers is not as fast as it could be. 'It will enable anyone who wants to have superhuman cognition,' Musk said. 'Anyone who wants.' As for how much smarter humans will become with these AI chips, Musk writes: 'How much smarter are you with a phone or computer or without? You're vastly smarter, actually,' Musk said. 'You can answer any question pretty much instantly. You can remember flawlessly. Your phone can remember videos (and) pictures perfectly. Your phone is already an extension of you. You're already a cyborg. Most people don't realize you're already a cyborg. It's just that the data rate it's slow, very slow. It's like a tiny straw of information flow between your biological self and your digital self. We need to make that tiny straw like a giant river, a huge, high-bandwidth interface.'

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