{"id":29985,"date":"2016-09-08T16:49:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T23:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/an-ai-upgrade-for-your-brain-elon-musk-teases-the-neural-lace"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:42:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:42:29","slug":"an-ai-upgrade-for-your-brain-elon-musk-teases-the-neural-lace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/an-ai-upgrade-for-your-brain-elon-musk-teases-the-neural-lace","title":{"rendered":"An AI upgrade for your brain, Elon Musk teases the Neural Lace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZrGPuUQsDjo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Worried that AI\u2019s one day could make us their pets Elon Musk is teasing a new brain-hacking tech<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There\u2019s no doubting that Elon Musk is one busy guy. Whether he\u2019s trying to land on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalfuturist.org\/2016\/08\/spacex-begins-tests-on-the-rocket-that-will-take-humans-to-mars\/\">Mars with SpaceX<\/a>, running Tesla, buying SolarCity, investing in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalfuturist.org\/2016\/04\/inside-openai-the-company-setting-ai-free\/\">future of AI<\/a>, building Giga factories or throwing out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalfuturist.org\/2016\/07\/inside-the-hyperloop-the-worlds-mach-1-0-train\/\">Hyperloop<\/a> concepts for fun but it\u2019s increasingly apparent that he\u2019s giving a huge amount of thought to the day when advanced AI\u2019s become the most intelligent form of \u201clife\u201d on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalfuturist.org\/tag\/artificial-intelligence\/\">advances that we are already seeing in AI<\/a> it\u2019s inevitable that one day \u2013 sooner rather than later humans will, comparatively speaking, be as intelligent to an AI as pets are to us today. To that end, the billionaire polymath has revealed he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/20322-elon-musk-neural-lace-progress\" target=\"_blank\">may be working<\/a> on something called a \u201cNeural Lace\u201d, a nanotechnology based device that you can think of as being a digital upgrade for your brain. Human intelligence combined with the power of AI \u2013 a digital layer directly overlaid onto the brains cortex.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalfuturist.org\/2016\/09\/an-ai-upgrade-for-your-brain-elon-musk-teases-the-neural-lace\/\">http:\/\/www.globalfuturist.org\/2016\/09\/an-ai-upgrade-for-your...ural-lace\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worried that AI\u2019s one day could make us their pets Elon Musk is teasing a new brain-hacking tech There\u2019s no doubting that Elon Musk is one busy guy. Whether he\u2019s trying to land on Mars with SpaceX, running Tesla, buying SolarCity, investing in the future of AI, building Giga factories or throwing out Hyperloop concepts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,4,47,6,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60456,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29985\/revisions\/60456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}