Elon Musk Launches Neuralink to Connect Brains With Computers

Okay but when can I transfer my soul into a cute lolita body is the pertinent question here

>>155121387
It wouldn't be your soul dipshit. It would be your brain placed in a prosthetic loli body.

>>155121086
Care to copy/paste the whole shit? I'm really interested.

>>155121456
Can you not access Wall Street Journal or something?

>>155121387
>souls
>existing
Keep magic thinking in the realm of anime.

>>155121488
Hello r/Atheism.

>to read the full story subscribe or sign in

>>155121517
Show me your soul.

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>>155121456
>>155121522
>Building a mass-market electric vehicle and colonizing Mars aren’t ambitious enough for Elon Musk. The billionaire entrepreneur now wants to merge computers with human brains to help people keep up with machines.

The founder and chief executive of Tesla Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. has launched another company called Neuralink Corp., according to people familiar with the matter. Neuralink is pursuing what Mr. Musk calls “neural lace” technology, implanting tiny brain electrodes that may one day upload and download thoughts.

>Mr. Musk has taken an active role setting up the California-based company and may play a significant leadership role, according to people briefed on Neuralink’s plans, a bold step for a father of five who already runs two technologically complex businesses.

Mr. Musk didn’t respond to a request for comment. Max Hodak, who said he is a “member of the founding team,” confirmed the company’s existence and Mr. Musk’s involvement. He described the company as “embryonic” and said plans are still in flux but declined to provide additional details. Mr. Hodak previously founded Transcriptic, a startup that provides robotic lab services accessible over the internet.

>Mr. Musk, 45 years old, is part businessman, part futurist. He splits his time between Tesla, which is under pressure to deliver its $35,000 Model 3 sedan on time, and SpaceX, which aims to launch a satellite-internet business and a rocket that can bring humans to Mars. He is also pushing development of a super high-speed train called Hyperloop.

Somewhere in his packed schedule, he has found time to start a neuroscience company that plans to develop cranial computers, most likely to treat intractable brain diseases first, but later to help humanity avoid subjugation at the hands of intelligent machines.

>>155121662
Thank you.

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>>155121662
>“If you assume any rate of advancement in [artificial intelligence], we will be left behind by a lot,” he said at a conference last June.

The solution he proposed was a “direct cortical interface”—essentially a layer of artificial intelligence inside the brain—that could enable humans to reach higher levels of function.

>Mr. Musk has teased that he is developing the technology himself. “Making progress [on neural lace],” he tweeted last August, “maybe something to announce in a few months.” In January he tweeted that an announcement might be coming shortly.

He hasn’t made an official announcement, but Neuralink registered in California as a “medical research” company last July.

>Mr. Musk has discussed financing Neuralink primarily himself, including with capital borrowed against equity in his other companies, according to a person briefed on the plans.

Neuralink has also discussed a possible investment from Founders Fund, the venture firm started by Peter Thiel, with whom Mr. Musk co-founded payments company PayPal, according to people familiar with the matter.

>In recent weeks, Neuralink hired leading academics in the field, according to another person familiar with the matter. They include Vanessa Tolosa, an engineer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and an expert in flexible electrodes; Philip Sabes, a professor at the University of California in San Francisco, who studies how the brain controls movement; and Timothy Gardner, a professor at Boston University who is known for implanting tiny electrodes in the brains of finches to study how the birds sing.

Reached by phone, Dr. Gardner confirmed he is working for Neuralink, but declined to elaborate on its plans. Dr. Sabes declined to comment. Dr. Tolosa didn't respond to a request for comment.

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>>155121731
>It is unclear what sorts of products Neuralink might create, but people who have had discussions with the company describe a strategy similar to SpaceX and Tesla, where Mr. Musk developed new rocket and electric-car technologies, proved they work, and is now using them to pursue more ambitious projects.

These people say the first products could be advanced implants to treat intractable brain disorders like epilepsy or major depression, a market worth billions of dollars. Such implants would build on simpler electrodes already used to treat brain disorders like Parkinson’s disease.

>If Neuralink can prove the safety and efficacy of technology it develops and receive government approval, perhaps it then could move on to cosmetic brain surgeries to enhance cognitive function, these people say. Mr. Musk alluded to this possibility in his comments last June, describing how humans struggle to process and generate information as quickly as they absorb it.

“Your output level is so low, particularly on a phone, your two thumbs just tapping away,” he said. “This is ridiculously slow. Our input is much better because we have a high bandwidth visual interface into the brain. Our eyes take in a lot of data.”

>Others pursuing the idea include Bryan Johnson, the founder of online payments company Braintree, who plans to pump $100 million into a startup called Kernel, which has 20 people and is pursuing a similar mission.

Mr. Johnson said he has spoken to Mr. Musk and that both companies want to build better neural interfaces, first to attack big diseases, and then to expand human potential.

>Facebook Inc. has posted job ads for “brain-computer interface engineers” and other neuroscientists at its new secret projects division. And the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is investing $60 million over four years to develop implantable neural interface technology.

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>>155121796
The technology faces several barriers. Scientists must find a safe, minimally invasive way to implant the electrodes, and a way to keep them stable in the brain. It also isn’t yet possible to record the activity of millions of the brain’s neurons to decode complex decisions, or distinguish when someone wants to eat a bowl of spaghetti or go to the bathroom.

>Then there is persuading people to get elective brain surgery.

In comments published by Vanity Fair on Sunday, Mr. Musk said “for a meaningful partial-brain interface, I think we’re roughly four or five years away.”

>If Mr. Musk indeed takes an active leadership role at Neuralink, that would raise more questions about his own personal bandwidth.

Tesla is building the largest battery factory on the planet to supply its forthcoming Model 3 electric vehicle, and it will need to produce hundreds of thousands of cars to meet its goal and justify its lofty market capitalization, which is approaching that of Ford Motor Co.
SpaceX has struggled to launch rockets fast enough to send satellites into orbit for its customers. Ultimately it wants to launch an internet-access business powered by more than 4,000 low-earth orbiting satellites, ferry space tourists to the moon and then bring astronauts to Mars.

>Even so, Mr. Musk has proved many naysayers wrong. Traditional auto makers said he could never sell a popular electric car. Military-industrial graybeards scoffed at the idea he could even launch a rocket.

>>155121611
Show me your mind. Oh wait, that doesn't have a physical presence. I guess it doesn't exist.

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Great, now the Guvmint will request a copy of your mind if you want to vote or in border control. And the NSA/CIA/GCHQ/5EYES backdoor goes without saying.

Thanks Elon.

>>155122266
That's assuming IF you get these implants.

>>155122369
It will become mandatory, like a phone is today. Good luck surviving without one, you'll never be able to get a job, navigating society becomes more and more dependent etc. Brain chips will become similar. They will become "optional", but if you opt against it, you'll end up homeless and alone and starve to death on the steets.

>>155122369
>>155122888
depent if the production/cost will be low enough to get one

>>155121086
I liked kaiba better to be honest.

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>>155121086
Can I connect my brain to a computer and live in the 2D realm? this is important.

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Reminder that removable AR is clearly superior to human singularity memes

Now that's fucking scary. That's fucking Kaiba and Ghost in the Shell merged into one big thing. This is ridiculous.
Transhumanism is going too far, and this is going to turn into 1984/Fahrenheit 451.

>>155124631
>going to turn into 1984/Fahrenheit 451.
We're already in a worse and more efficient combination of both.

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>>155121086
>Trusting Elon Musk

>>155124631
>Transhumanism is going too far, and this is going to turn into 1984/Fahrenheit 451.

You forgot to add a dash of Brand New World

>>155124869
Real life is a lot more like BNW than the other two.

>>155121086

GitS is about feminism.

>>155125340
no it's about Disney.

>>155124869
It's called BRAVE New World you dumbass.

>>155121611
>implying something has to be tangible to exist
I think you need to adjust your fedora.

>>155121086
>how does it feel knowing that Ghost in the Shell basically predicted the future?
I mean I'm sure people have thought about it prior to GitS

>>155124864
also this, the guy clearly has big dreams and good intentions but I'm starting to feel like he talks more than he can do. I know he needs the sponsors and good on him for getting them but after the spacex explosion and the hyperloop I'm kinda starting to lose trust in him
anyway, the reason I'm here is because I just watched ghost in the shell for the first time ever and this is the only thread that showed up
The animation was gorgeous, detailed and fluid and it definitely holds up but I didn't really care for the plot. I liked the existentialism and transhumanism parts of it but it also felt kind of hollow and underexplored.
I liked it, I'd probably give it 7/10

I know there are more movies and an anime, are they good? Do they go more in-depth? If I decide to watch them, should I do so in chronological order or in their order of release?
cheers

>>155123377
Well with advancements in VR and AR technology combined with advancements in human augmentation/cyberization, anything is possible.
We're already in the early stage of a cyberpunk world. It's only a matter of time before a world like Ghost in the Shell becomes a reality.

>>155126967
I think you are supposed to watch The 2nd movie after SAC 1 & 2 and solid state society.

I find the anime more entertaining than the movie.

>>155121825
>Hey Chad
>Yeah Bill
>Do the robot bodies actually need pubic hair
>Course they do. It would be unnatural otherwise.
>You're a weird guy Chad
>That's why they keep paying me

so /a/ is full of christians or atheists?

>>155127130
What's the score right now?

>>155126967
Oshii's movie isn't story driven. It's concept driven. The philosophical themes and concepts are the Crux of what made Oshii's movie so special. The story is just there to tie it all together. Try looking at it that way instead.
Innocence is good too. Not as good as the first movie, but still good.
Stand Alone Complex is much more story driven so you'll probably enjoy that.
Arise is painfully mediocre.
The Original manga is a classic.

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>>155122888
I would rather have a virtual AI assistant than be augmented.

>>155125271
But we don't have a "No Normies Allowed" island

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>>155126819

>>155121479
>giving traffic to WSJ
Are you retarded or something?
It should be a bannable offense to post journalism without using archive.

>>155127348
>Normies

>>155121086
Do these come with an exploding feature like his rockets do?

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>>155127655
wat

>>155127685
That is literally how Brave New World ends.

>>155127655
Huh? Why?

>>155127655
How many chromosomes are you on

>>155127965
That's not what I was >

>>155128526
I know you were. But the ending of the book has the MC basically going /r9k/, hence making the use of "normie" the most fitting.

Every day we move closer to pur cyberpunk dystopia

It's goonng to be so cool also we're all going to die.

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>>155121086
do you guys think you will be able to download yourself in the next 60 years to live forever?

>>155128859
Maybe. We need to get past the currently technology wall first though. AI and true Quantum Computing is what we need.

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I always knew Shirow was a prophetic genius.

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>>155128635

>>155128727
A Vietnamese e-celeb was tricked into murdering the brother of a Korean dictator by being told it was an online prank. The entire thing was captured on video by the nigh-constant surveillance around us at all times.

We're already in a cyberpunk dystopia

>>155129582

Yeah but we don't have any of the cool stuff yet

>>155129907
>instant access to at least 90% of the world's knowledge
>diy gene editing kits affordable enough for home use
>cybernetic limbs now responding to human input

And within a decade probably
>self-driving cars
>memory chips that can be installed in the human brain
>ubiquitous AR

What is it, exactly, you were hoping for?

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>>155127655

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>>155121952
>>>

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>>155130237
That's a pretty ugly nose dude

>>155129907
Oh, we definitely have cool stuff, you just haven't seen it yet.

>>155130053

Memory chips installed in the human brain

People wearing mohawks and visors

Lots of neon

>>155130624
The first has successfully been done with mice, and is in the testing phase with humans.

The rest is shit taste.

Isn't Elon scared of AIs going rampant? Isn't this making the problem worse?

>>155127084
Thank god for Chad

>>155124864
Dude's space company has accomplished things that no one else ever has. They're launching the first landed and refurbished booster ever later this week.

>>155127348
We have the middle east.

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We need to keep going until we have Matrix-like simulations where I can become a cute 2D school girl doing cute things. Once we have that, I won't mind becoming a brain in a jar.

>>155128635
How? The MC hangs himself at the end.

>>155131159
>gensokyo brb

>>155122888
That's... Actually a good point.

>>155127163
Lemme check the checkmate counter.

Christians: 15
Atheists: 14
Waifus: 3,005,384
Husbandos: 1,453,576

>>155121611
>>155121952
Mind and soul are the same thing, retards.

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>little brother has a degenerative eye disease and will probably go completely blind before he's 30
>he's trying really hard to prepare himself for it so it won't completely fuck up his life
>know on some level he's hoping they'll develop a good technological replacement for his vision

Really sucks knowing all that good stuff is still another 20-30 years away.

>>155131354
No they aren't, go buy a dictionary.

>>155131354
Definitely not. The soul is the amalgam of all the individual minds you possess across all possible timelines. To exist beyond the physical realm, the soul obviously has to be an extra-universal object.

>>155122888
You can easily survive without a cellphone in today's world.