^Musk implies we must embrace AI and BCI in order to increase our intelligence...
But the fact of the matter, the human brain is still way more intelligent than our best computers by laughably large margins...
http://bgr.com/2016/02/27/power-of-the- ... -computer/
"In an effort to mimic this digitally, scientists a few years ago needed more than 82,000 processors running on one of the world’s fastest supercomputers to mimic just 1 second of a normal human’s brain activity."
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"So computers are more powerful [than] humans when it comes to executing simple step-by-step instructions. Humans are more powerful than computers at tasks that are not easily broken into simple steps. The fields of computer science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are aimed at breaking down problems into ‘byte-sized’ chunks that are ‘digestible’ by computers. So for now computers are informational babies — they cannot ‘cook’ for themselves."
And when it comes to information storage capacity, DNA blows computers out of the water...
https://journal.thriveglobal.com/the-hu ... 80cb156541
"Each of your six trillion cells contains all of the information to make your whole body. DNA can hold more data in a smaller space than any of today’s digital memories. According to one estimate, all of the information on every computer in 2015 coded onto DNA could “fit in the back of an SUV.” In fact, DNA can already be used to store non-biological information. In 2015, the works of Shakespeare were encoded into DNA."
Computers are tools... Life is intelligence.
