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06/20/2016 / By Greg White

Elon Musk suggests people of the future will need brain transplants to compete with evolved Artificial Intelligence

Among all the far-out, futuristic claims peddled by Elon Musk at this year’s annual Code Conference in Southern California, his ideas about “neural lace” were arguably the most interesting. “We’re already a cyborg,” said Musk. “You have a digital version of yourself, a partial version of yourself online in the form of your emails, your […]

05/10/2016 / By Greg White

Elon Musk just spent $1 Billion launching the world’s first ‘artificial intelligence gym’

Elon Musk wants to make robots sweat. The CEO of SpaceX has created a $1 billion state of the art “Robot Gym” to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The intent of the gym, according to Musk, is to make robots as versatile as humans with respect to thinking. Musk joined forces with Sam Altman to […]

12/15/2015 / By Greg White

Elon Musk warns a third World War, religious fanaticism and anti-tech movement could prevent manned missions to Mars

Before we can colonize Mars, we must ensure we don’t decolonize Earth first, warns Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in an interview with GQ. Musk notes there is a window of opportunity when the technology necessary to send astronauts to Mars becomes available; however, it could rapidly be shut down because of religious extremism, […]

08/13/2015 / By Greg White

Developing artificial intelligence is like ‘summoning the demon’ that wipes out humanity, warns Tesla CEO Elon Musk

Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, issued a warning that artificial intelligence (AI) is the single “biggest existential threat” facing humanity. He added that we are “summoning the demon” with AI, meaning we are flirting with forces that we have little, if any, control over. These remarks coincided with an open letter presented […]

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