The future, according to Elon Musk

Chips in our brains, humans colonizing Mars, and driverless cars.  This is the future according to Elon Musk ...

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00:00We want the things that are in science fiction novels and movies not to be science fiction

00:10forever.

00:11We want them to be real one day.

00:12In the future you'll be able to save and replay memories.

00:19I mean this is obviously sounding increasingly like a Black Mirror episode.

00:24The operation on a per-chip basis involves just a 2mm incision which is dilated to 8mm.

00:35It could in principle fix almost anything that is wrong with the brain.

00:43I have exposure to the most cutting edge AI and I think people should be really concerned

00:52about it.

00:53It's going to be very tempting to use AI as a weapon.

00:55It's going to be very tempting.

00:58In fact it will be used as a weapon.

01:00Until people see robots going down the street killing people, they don't know how to react

01:06because it seems so ethereal.

01:08What's not obvious is a huge server bank in a dark vault somewhere with an intelligence

01:13that's potentially vastly greater than what a human mind can do.

01:21History suggests there will be some Doomsday event.

01:25The alternative is to become a space-faring civilization and a multi-planet species.

01:30I mean I hope we are out there on Mars and maybe beyond Mars, the moons of Jupiter.

01:38In order to create a self-sustaining city on Mars, you've got to make it as affordable

01:45as possible to go there.

01:46This is sort of an illustration of what it would be like on Mars, Mars base.

01:52Owning a car that is not self-driving in the long term will be like owning a horse.

02:01You would own it and you would use it for sentimental reasons but not for daily use

02:08really.

02:09We're basically less than two years away from complete autonomy.

02:15Wow.

02:16Wow.

02:17Complete.

02:18Safer than a human.

02:19If we had a car now, we would make a car that has no steering wheels or pedals.

02:28All transport with the exception of rockets will go fully electric.

02:31If we can use solar energy plus batteries, we can actually have a complete solution for

02:36sustainable energy generation and then we need to use it in a sustainable way.

02:40We're doing what we can to have the future be as good as possible, to be inspired by

02:49what is likely to happen and to look forward to the next day.