Lex Fridman interviews Elon Musk and the Neuralink team on the Future of Humanity for over 8 hours. Lex interviews them in sequence. Elon Musk is CEO of Neuralink, SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, and CTO of X. DJ Seo is COO & President of Neuralink. Matthew MacDougall is Head Neurosurgeon at Neuralink. Bliss Chapman is Brain Interface Software Lead at Neuralink. Noland Arbaugh is the first human to have a Neuralink device implanted in his brain.
Elon Musk talked about the goal of merging humanity with AI with a high bandwidth brain interface. The bitrate will get to gigabits per second in 10-15 years. Elon thinks regular people like Lex Fridman could choose to get a Neuralink in 10 years.
Elon says the winner in AI has to have the best training compute.
I have a projection that Elon Musk’s XAI will have a billion petaflop of training compute by 2029. XAI and Tesla would have twenty to a hundred times more distributed inference compute from the chips in Teslabots and Tesla cars.
DJ Seo is COO & President of Neuralink talked about his goal of creating neural dust. They would use ultrasound waves because it will work in the body better. Ultrasound would used to power the devices and get the data back. It would work at the right scale of tens of microns.
An approximation is that it could take 200-300 million connections to achieve a full mindmeld with the biological brain and computers.
Everyone could eventually need a Neuralink.
Here Seo talks about the future capabilities of Neuralink.
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