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Elon Musk: So You're Saying There's a Chance - Neuralink and Merging with AI

15 Nov 2019 · 1 min

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This is an excerpt from a YouTube interview between Elon Musk and Lex Fridman about Neuralink. Musk states Neuralink can substantially help brain and spinal-cord damage and improve quality of life, and he frames its ultimate purpose as reducing existential risk from digital superintelligence by enabling a human–AI merge. He describes the chance of success as "above zero percent" and gives an illustrative probability progression ("one in a million" potentially improving to "one in a thousand", "one in 100", then "one in ten"). Musk emphasizes the importance of having a human brain interface before or shortly after the singularity to minimize existential risk.

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"Above zero percent."

He mentions it might go from "one in a million" to "one in a thousand", then "one in 100", then "one in ten."

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There's, I think, a tremendous amount of good that neuralink can do in solving critical damage to the brain or the spinal cord. There's a lot that can be done to improve quality of life of individuals, and those will be steps along the way. And then ultimately it's intended to address the existential risk associated with digital superintelligence. We will not be able to be smarter than a digital supercomputer. So therefore, if you cannot beat them, join them, and at least we won't have that option.
So you have hope that neuralink will be able to be a kind of connection to allow us to merge, to ride the wave of the improving AI systems.
I think the chance is above zero percent.
So it's non zero. There's a chance.
And that's so what I've seen. Dumb and dumber.
Yes.
So I'm saying there's a chance.
He's saying one in a billion or one in a million, whatever it was, the dumb and dumber, you know, it.
Went from maybe one in a million to improving. Maybe it'll be one in a thousand and then one in 100, then one in ten. Depends on the rate of improvement of neuralink and how fast we're able to do make progress, you know.
Well, I've talked to a few folks here, they're quite brilliant engineers. I'm excited.
It's important that neuralink solve this problem sooner rather than later, because the point at which we have digital superintelligence, that's when we pass singularity and things become just very uncertain. It doesn't mean that they're necessarily bad or good. For the point at which we pass singularity, things become extremely unstable. So we want to have a human brain interface before the singularity, or at least not long after it, to minimize existential risk for humanity and consciousness as we know it. It.