Elon Musk

Elon Musk Seen Targeting Human-computer Link In New Venture

... we're i/o-bound.". Laying out his idea, Musk said, "Effectively, merging in a symbiotic way with digital intelligence revolves around eliminating the i/o constraint. So, it would be some sort of direct cortical interface.". And he added that such a "merging" would not require surgery but could instead be accomplished by going through veins and arteries — "because that provides a complete roadway to all of your neurons.". You Tube. Such a project could be life-changing for people who suffer from neurological diseases and injuries. In addition, Musk has said, enhancing people's brains could allow humanity to avoid becoming the equivalent of "a house cat" after AI surpasses us — a development he said was just a matter of time. On Tuesday, Wait But Why's Tim Urban posted a short update to its series of collaborations with Musk, saying, "So there's this secret thing I've been secretly working on for the past few weeks and it was a secret.". That has changed because of a leak, Urban said. But, like Musk, he ...

I Can Fix South Australia Power Network In 100 Days Or It's Free

... – or he’ll deliver the 100 MW battery storage system for free. On Thursday, Lyndon Rive, Tesla’s vice-president for energy products, told the AFR the company could install the 100-300 megawatt hours of battery storage that would be required to prevent the power shortages that have been causing price spikes and blackouts in the state. Tesla moves beyond electric cars with new California battery farm. Read more. Thanks to stepped-up production out of Tesla’s new Gigafactory in Nevada, he said it could be achieved within 100 days. Mike Cannon-Brookes, the Australian co-founder of Silicon Valley startup Atlassian, on Friday tweeted Elon Musk, asking if Tesla was serious about being able to install the capacity. Musk replied that the company could do it in 100 days of the contract being signed, or else provide it free, adding: “That serious enough for you?”. Elon Musk (@elonmusk). ...

Elon Musk On Brink Of Wright Brothers Moment With Reused Rocket

... and we need more access to space,” SES’s chief technology officer Martin Halliwell said in an interview. “Rockets that can be flown, recovered and relaunched again help enormously. This is a hugely important milestone.”. Related Articles. February 27, 2017 Elon Musk’s Space X plans to fly two private citizens around the moon by late next year. Once derided as a crazy idea, rocket reusability is now seen as key to making space travel affordable. Blue Origin LLC, the space-exploration company founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, is working on New Glenn, a rocket with a reusable first stage that’s targeting its first flight in 2020. Parts of the Space Shuttle boosters were refurbishable, but no company has pulled off the “rapid reusability” Space X is targeting to lower launch costs, said Larson, the former Obama adviser. Recovering and refurbishing the used rocket booster reflying next week took Space X roughly four months, President Gwynne Shotwell said on a panel at an industry conference in Washington, D. C., earlier this month. Eventually, that turnaround time will drop to ...

Why Elon Musk Worries About Artificial Intelligence

... Musk's prejudice prompted him to donate millions to the ethics think tank Open AI —and it's why he's urging other billionaire techies like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet's Larry Page to proceed with caution on their myriad of machine learning and robotics experiments. Open AI is both an ethics and a research institution. Its mandate (plucked from its website ): "Because of AI's surprising history, it's hard to predict when human-level AI might come within reach. When it does, it'll be important to have a leading research institution which can prioritize a good outcome for all over its own self-interest.". For more insight into Musk's motivation, I recommend Maureen Dowd's treatise in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. Ostensibly, her article is about Musk, but she also does a masterful job of revealing where noted AI enthusiasts stand on the ethics debate. For example, Ray Kurzweil, who writes often about the coming merger of man and machine as part of his ...

Reusable Falcon 9 Rocket Is A Triumph For Spacex's Elon Musk

... one that can fly over and over. “That’s not a very competitive position to be in,” he said. “You really want to have the aircraft that can be flown lots of times.”. Martin Halliwell, chief technology officer of Luxembourg-based SES, whose satellite reached orbit Thursday, said Space X had the launch industry “shaking in its boots” several years ago when it showed Falcon rockets could launch communications satellites to high orbits. Space X concept image of people landing on Mars. (Photo: Space X). “I think it’s shaking now,” he said Thursday. “I really do.”. Of the three missions SES has flown on Falcon 9 rockets to date, Halliwell said the ride on a recycled booster was the smoothest yet. “I think we made a little bit of history today, actually, and just opened a door into a whole new era of spaceflight,” he said. Longer-term, Musk thinks reusability can lead to a 100-fold reduction in the ...

Elon Musk’s Pledge To Fix South Australia’s Energy Issues Prompts Ukrainian Pm To Get In Touch

... Australian news site AFR last week that Solar City could provide the energy storage required through the battery technology it produces and this would be possible within 100 days. Mike Cannon-Brookes, the Australian founder of Nasdaq-listed tech firm Atlassian asked Musk on Twitter if this was a real bet. Musk replied that it was, adding that if the company couldn't do it within 100 days, the contract would be free. Solar City makes solar solutions for areas which can store up energy during the day and feed that back into an area's grid. The promise was applauded by Australians including Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who thanked Musk on Twitter for an "in-depth discussion". Now citizens from other countries have taken to social media to ask Musk to bring his technology to their countries. A user by the name of @5 Allan Le Vito urged Musk to bring a similar project to Ukraine. Musk replied "sure", and laid out the cost. The ...

Elon Musk Has Launched A Company That Hopes To Link Your Brain To A Computer

... Musk promised on. more. Photo: Evan Vucci, AP. File photo of Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Photo: Bloomberg | Getty Images. Image 7 of 31. El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, saluda a Wendell P. Weeks (derecha), director ejecutivo de Corning, durante un desayuno con líderes empresariales en el Roosevelt Room de la Casa Blanca, el 23 de enero de 2017. A la izquierda, Elon Musk, director ejecutivo de Space X y Tesla Motors. (AP Foto/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) less. El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, saluda a Wendell P. Weeks (derecha), director ejecutivo de Corning, durante un desayuno con líderes empresariales en el Roosevelt Room de la Casa Blanca, el 23 de. more. Image 8 of 31. President Donald Trump meets with business leaders, including Elon Musk (left), Monday in the Roosevelt Room. “Elon Musk has an important line of communication to Donald Trump,” Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas says. “This strategic relationship between Tesla leadership and the new administration is an important development.” less. President Donald Trump meets with business leaders, including Elon Musk (left), Monday in the Roosevelt Room. “Elon Musk has an important line of ...

The Surprising People Ceos Worship

... Souq , for $800 million. Shipping economics have never been more important to Amazon. A big reason for its current vicious price war with consumer brands and Wal-Mart is difficulty moving lots of packages at a profit. Ted S. Warren | AP. Ajit Pai: The new gatekeeper of the internet. Regulators may seem like the boring people of technology, seeking to limit its reach rather than lead innovation, but this week new Federal Communications Commission chair Ajit Pai demonstrated a little bit of his power to influence, if not inspire, every single move made online. Congress voted to reverse an Obama-era rule that limited the ability of the telecommunications companies that provide broadband access to sell private-user data without consent. It is a decision that Pai supports (he voted against the Obama-era rule when he was in the minority among FCC members). Pai is also expected to revisit net neutrality rules enacted during the Obama era, which was designed to prohibit broadband providers from playing favorites among apps and services. Pai attracted the attention ...

Elon Musk's Openai Develops Bots That Can Create Their Own Language

... to” or “Look at” by the researchers, but they were required to create their own machine language to communicate with each other. The researchers then assigned English words to the numerical strings the bots came up with. Through trial and error, the bots were able to learn what worked and what didn’t as they attempted to accomplish the assigned goals. “We think that if we slowly increase the complexity of their environment, and the range of actions the agents themselves are allowed to take, it’s possible they’ll create an expressive language which contains concepts beyond the basic verbs and nouns that evolved here,” the researchers explained in a blog post. While the tasks accomplished were fairly simple and straight forward from a human perspective, the advancement from requiring massive amounts of computer coding to accomplish the tasks to teaching the ...

Five Things We Learned This Week

... like metal detectors than vacuum cleaners. These $500 gadgets helped sales soar 45 percent at British manufacturer Dyson, to £2.5 billion ($3.1 billion) last year. Dyson is the company better known for the no-touch hand dryers that have become ubiquitous in public bathrooms. Its next big thing? A £1 billion wager on a next-generation battery. 4) The Travel Industry Fears a Trump Slump. The most important business stories of the day. Get Bloomberg's daily newsletter. Sign Up. Today’s America is no holiday hotspot. With travel bans, laptop bans , and widely publicized stories of delays getting through airports, the U. S. tourism industry is worried about its future under President Donald Trump. “Mr. President, please tell the world that while we’re closed to terror, we’re open for business,” said Roger Dow, chief executive officer of the U. S. Travel Association. The organization estimates ...