The symbiosis of the human brain and AI is coming. In a recent interview with Joe Rogan, Elon Musk described what we can expect when the “whole-brain interface” with AI arrives in 2045.
”Almost all of your neurons are committed to an AI extension of yourself. You acquire an online ‘ghost.’ More of you will be in the cloud than in your body.”
AI will become a third layer sitting on top of our animal or reptilian brain, which is in our limbic system, and our “smart brain,” which is in our cortex, says Musk.
Look around, says Musk, and you can see this layer developing in the neural nets that drive Google and Amazon. On our smartphones, we’re already linked to it with our eyes. keyboards, fingers and voice, which is a start, but these are very slow connections when you consider what’s likely to soon be possible.
Human output of data is a mere 100 bits per second, Musk points out. Computers can transmit teraflops. It's all about data rate. The challenge is to build a mind/machine interface that will enable us to attain these remarkable speeds.
Musk’s brain-machine interface company, Neuralink, has raised $205 million from investors including Google Ventures, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, CNBC tells us. Total investment in the company now stands at $363 million.
Neuralink is developing high-bandwidth brain implants that can communicate with phones and computers, targeting its first devices at quadriplegics and is working toward human trials.
They’re calling their first product the “N1 Link.” Musk describes it as a “Fitbit for your skull.”
