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HAB911

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Tue Feb 14, 2017, 10:10 AM Feb 2017

Musk Warns Humans Must Meld With AI Or Be Made Obsolete [View all]

While there has been plenty of conversation over the possibility that robots will replace humans in the work force, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk believes the threat is existential for people. The billionaire warned humans will soon have to learn to communicate with artificial intelligence or face becoming obsolete.

“Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence," Musk said while speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai, according to a report from CNBC. "It's mostly about the bandwidth, the speed of the connection between your brain and the digital version of yourself, particularly output."

Musk, who was at the event to announce the launch of Tesla in the United Arab Emirates, suggested that a merger between humans and machines will be necessary for the species going forward, lest it find itself made irrelevant.

The founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX pointed to the processing power of a computer compared to that of a person’s brain, explaining that computers can communicate at “a trillion bits per second” while humans do so at about 10 bits per second. In other words, people just won’t be able to keep up.

http://www.ibtimes.com/what-artificial-intelligence-teslas-elon-musk-warns-humans-must-meld-ai-or-be-made-2491180

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