Parrot’s World

ELON MUSK: “We'll be doing our first implants for vision, where even if somebody's completely blind, we can write directly to the visual cortex, and we've had that working in monkeys. One of our monkeys now has had a visual implant for 3 years, and at first it'll be fairly low resolution, but long term, you'll have very high resolution and be able to see multi-spectral wavelengths, so you could see in infrared, ultraviolet, radar, like a superpower situation. At some point, the cybernetic implants would not simply be correcting things that went wrong, but augmenting human capabilities dramatically, augmenting intelligence and senses and bandwidth dramatically, and that's going to happen at some point, but digital superintelligence will happen well before that, and at least if we have a neural link, we'll be able to appreciate the AI better.”