I listened to Elon Musk and the Neuralink team for 8.5 hours

On my way home from Switzerland this weekend, while packing and unpacking, I listened to Lex Fridman's very technical, in-depth conversation with Elon Musk and the Neuralink team.

I summarized all things AI, future tech, and the future of humanity from that.

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Reading time is 5:21 min; Vamos!

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Elon Musk + Neuralink + Lex Fridman and the Future of Humanity ????

The 8,5 hours interview is actually a series of 5 interviews.

These five interviews were with Elon Musk, CEO of Neuralink (and SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, and CTO of X), DJ See, COO and President of Neuralink, Matthew MacDougall, Neuralink’s Head Neurosurgeon, Bliss Chapman, Brain Interface Software Lead, and Noland Arbaugh, patient 1 with a Neuralink device implanted in his brain.

Disclaimer: They have covered many topics that I don’t think are relevant. Therefore, I am excluding parts like history lessons, aliens, calibration of the implant, the UI of the Neuralink app, and God.

Interview with Elon Musk

?He has confirmed Neuralink's second human implant.

On Telepathy

• Amazing first insights: within a few years, we will be able to communicate with each other at 10 * the speed of talking … if we both have a Neuralink

??Maybe five years from now, we might be at a megabit, faster than any human could possibly communicate by typing or speaking. Provided they wanted a Neuralink, too. Otherwise, they won’t be able to absorb the signals fast enough.

On the future of Neuralink

• First, they want to address the basics: neurological issues like spinal cord damage. Then, they will move to more complex applications like restoring vision (Blindsight project) and eventually aim for human augmentation with AI.
• Skills like thought-to-speech, thought-to-text, and even thought-to-thought will be possible.

??Let's give people superpowers!

On the merging with AI

• AI will eventually be much faster than we are. It’ll be similar to talking to a tree – very different communication rates and intelligence.
• Thus, we have to improve the human output rate.

On xAI

• Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is establishing one of the world's largest supercomputers in Memphis, Tennessee, with the "Gigafactory of Compute."
• xAI develops Grok 2 at the moment and plans to have Grok 3 at the end of the year.

??For AI, that means you've got to have the most powerful training computer, and the rate of improvement of the training computer has to be faster than everyone else, or you will not win.

??Grok 3 is going to be next level. I mean, what people are currently seeing with Grok is baby Grok.

On Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus

• There are engineering challenges in creating human-like robots. Just the hand is 50% of the effort.

??Optimus is going to be the biggest source of data.

• Why? Because it can interact with the world in many different ways. When pouring water into a glass, it will have immediate feedback on whether it is aimed properly.
• Optimus could even drive a car eventually. ??

Interview with DJ Seo

On biophysics of neural interfaces

• The brain consists of billions of neurons connected in a complex network, bathed in charged molecules.
• Neurons communicate through ionic currents facilitated by

??These voltage-selective ion channels are one of nature's best inventions. If you think about it, they're doing the job of modern-day transistors.

On how Neuralink works

• Neuralink consists of three main components: the N1 Implant....

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