Enhanced Intelligence, VR Sex, and Our Cyborg Future
Enhanced Intelligence, VR Sex, and Our Cyborg Future
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
January 2, 20205m 7s
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Show Notes
If you could press a button to merge your mind with an artificial intelligence computer—expanding your brain power, your memory, and your creative capacity—would you take the leap? “I would press it in a microsecond,” says Sebastian Thrun, who previously led Stanford University’s AI Lab. Turning yourself into a cyborg might sound like pure sci-fi, but recent progress in AI, neural implants, and wearable gadgets make it seem increasingly imaginable.
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