Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2019 14:25:11 GMT
The SpaceX founder and CEO said there is a "70 percent" chance that he himself will go to Mars, and that his space company "recently made a number of breakthroughs that I am just really fired up about," he told Axios in November.
It will be incredibly risky for those who go first to Mars, Musk said.
"It's gonna be hard, there's a good chance of death, going in a little can through deep space, you might land successfully, once you land successfully you'll be working non-stop to build the base — so not much time for leisure — and once you get there, even after all this, there's a very harsh environment, so there's a good chance you'll die there. We think you can come back but we're not sure," Musk told Axios.
SpaceX aims to get an unmanned cargo rocket to Mars in 2024, according to Musk. "Hopefully, there are people on board. But I think there's a pretty good chance of at least having an unmanned craft go to Mars. I think we will try to do this," Musk told Kara Swisher in October.
You will be able to connect your brain to computers in 10 years
As if Tesla, SpaceX and The Boring Company weren't enough to keep Musk busy, he also has a company, Neuralink, that is "developing ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers," as the company's website explains.
"The long-term aspiration with Neuralink would be to achieve a symbiosis with artificial intelligence…to achieve a sort of democratization of intelligence, such that it is not monopolistically held in a purely digital form by governments and large corporations," Musk told Axios in November.
That will be done by connecting computer electrodes to neurons in your brain — "a chip and a bunch of tiny wires" that will be "implanted in your skull," Musk said.
"I believe this can be done. ... It's probably on the order of a decade," he said.
If the idea of your intelligence being enhanced by computers seems wild, Musk says it's starting now: "And by the way, you kind of have this already in a weird way: You have a digital tertiary layer in the form of your phone, your computers, your watch. You basically have these computing devices that form a tertiary layer on your cognition already," Musk said, according to Axios.
It will be incredibly risky for those who go first to Mars, Musk said.
"It's gonna be hard, there's a good chance of death, going in a little can through deep space, you might land successfully, once you land successfully you'll be working non-stop to build the base — so not much time for leisure — and once you get there, even after all this, there's a very harsh environment, so there's a good chance you'll die there. We think you can come back but we're not sure," Musk told Axios.
SpaceX aims to get an unmanned cargo rocket to Mars in 2024, according to Musk. "Hopefully, there are people on board. But I think there's a pretty good chance of at least having an unmanned craft go to Mars. I think we will try to do this," Musk told Kara Swisher in October.
You will be able to connect your brain to computers in 10 years
As if Tesla, SpaceX and The Boring Company weren't enough to keep Musk busy, he also has a company, Neuralink, that is "developing ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers," as the company's website explains.
"The long-term aspiration with Neuralink would be to achieve a symbiosis with artificial intelligence…to achieve a sort of democratization of intelligence, such that it is not monopolistically held in a purely digital form by governments and large corporations," Musk told Axios in November.
That will be done by connecting computer electrodes to neurons in your brain — "a chip and a bunch of tiny wires" that will be "implanted in your skull," Musk said.
"I believe this can be done. ... It's probably on the order of a decade," he said.
If the idea of your intelligence being enhanced by computers seems wild, Musk says it's starting now: "And by the way, you kind of have this already in a weird way: You have a digital tertiary layer in the form of your phone, your computers, your watch. You basically have these computing devices that form a tertiary layer on your cognition already," Musk said, according to Axios.