🎱 Elon Musk Talks about the Future

At the recent Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Elon Musk gave an extensive interview about the future of the Internet, artificial intelligence, and humanity itself.

📱 Highlights

➡️ About AI prospects. One cannot be 100% optimistic or completely pessimistic. One of the godfathers of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, thinks there's a 10-20% probability of something terrible happening, like the extinction of the world's population. But I think the glass is 80% full. We're at the most interesting time in history. You'll see quite radical changes even next year and very radical changes within five years.

➡️ About life with superintelligence. The most likely outcome is one of abundance, where goods and services are available to anyone on Earth. It wouldn't be universal basic income; it would be universal high income. Work will be optional. But if AI can do everything you can but better, there will perhaps be a crisis of meaning. In the positive scenario, the AI will be doing it to make you happy. If some superintelligence is trying to make you happy, it'll probably succeed.

➡️ About Neuralink. The long-term goal of Neuralink is to achieve human-AI symbiosis. We think you could restore full body mobility by transferring the signals from the motor cortex in the brain past where the spinal injury is. We've already demonstrated this in animals, and it's looking very good.

➡️ About the future of the Internet. About the future of the Internet
There's going to be a significant disruption in Internet search. If AI can provide you with a better answer than a bunch of links, then you'll prefer that over Google. There’ll be a new model of news. You've got real-time aggregation of the collective wisdom of tens of millions of people — the information from people who are at the scene and who are experts in the field.

➡️ About humanoid robots. A fully functional humanoid robot will be doing a wide range of tasks: walking your dog, taking care of your house, babysitting the kids, teaching the kids, cooking dinner, and playing the piano. I think everyone will want one. There'll be at least one for every person and then a whole bunch more in the industry making things, so my guess is 20 billion. People will start to regard their personal Optimus robot as a sort of friend, like R2-D2 and C-3PO in Star Wars.

➡️ About multi-planetary travel. If we're a multi-planetary civilization, our probable lifespan is much greater. We can explore the galaxy, and perhaps we'll find many long-dead one-planet civilizations out there. Expanding the scope and scale of consciousness will help us better understand what questions to ask about the universe.

🎁 Today is Elon Musk's birthday – 53 years old. Congratulations!

📱 Interview here.

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