TOM EATON: Fear not, the ANC will save us from robots with load-shedding and cable theft
I’m not ready for a world in which my immortal soul gets deleted because I was short of R99 on a debit order
06 June 2023 - 05:00
American regulators have given permission for Elon Musk’s Neuralink implantable brain-computer interface to start human testing, which means we might soon be able to fulfil the evolutionary potential of a million years and start arguing with strangers on the internet inside our own heads.
Some experts have urged caution, reminding us of our tech overlords’ tendency to oversell the capabilities of their new nightmare machines, whether self-driving cars or the plagiarism combine-harvesters we’re being told to call “artificial intelligence”. ..
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