{"id":72477,"date":"2017-09-11T10:04:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T17:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/elon-musks-neuralink-gets-27-million-to-merge-humans-and-machines"},"modified":"2017-09-14T17:00:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T00:00:56","slug":"elon-musks-neuralink-gets-27-million-to-merge-humans-and-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/elon-musks-neuralink-gets-27-million-to-merge-humans-and-machines","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink Gets $27 Million to Merge Humans and Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musks-neuralink-gets-27-million-to-merge-humans-and-machines.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not much is known about Neuralink beyond Musk\u2019s few public comments about the potential of brain-computer interfaces to accelerate human evolution. Musk sees real danger in artificial intelligence \u2014 he\u2019s called AI a \u201cfundamental risk to the existence of human civilization\u201d \u2014 and believes that the best way to keep pace with machine intelligence is to upgrade human intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence,\u201d Musk told audience members at the World Government Conference in Dubai, proposing a high-bandwidth digital interface that can be interlaced with the brain to transmit data at the speed of thought.<\/p>\n<p>Musk elaborated on the brain-computer interface \u2014 also known as a neural lace \u2014 in an interview <a href=\"https:\/\/waitbutwhy.com\/2017\/04\/neuralink.html\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> on the blog Wait But Why. In it, he said that the immense creative capacity of the human brain is constrained by the need to compress our highly complex thoughts into speech or typed text.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/37990-elon-musks-neuralink-gets-27-million-to-merge-human-and-machine.html?utm_content=buffer6aff3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/37990-elon-musks-neuralink-gets-27-mil...e=facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much is known about Neuralink beyond Musk\u2019s few public comments about the potential of brain-computer interfaces to accelerate human evolution. Musk sees real danger in artificial intelligence \u2014 he\u2019s called AI a \u201cfundamental risk to the existence of human civilization\u201d \u2014 and believes that the best way to keep pace with machine intelligence is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":445,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2019,1490,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-elon-musk","category-government","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72477","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\/445"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72597,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72477\/revisions\/72597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}