Elon Musk claims to have digitized his own brain
Miscellaneous / / July 21, 2022
He may have been joking, but the joke has already boosted the stock prices of several companies.
On the eve of the founder of the cryptocurrency Dogecoin Bill Markus asked question to Twitter users: “If you could upload your brain to the cloud and talk to a virtual version of yourself, would you be friends”?
Marcus suggested that it would be cool to make a copy of himself as a video game partner due to the same level of skill. On the other hand, the founder of Dogecoin noted, an abundance of free time would make it possible computer double to hone their skills, while the original player version would spend a life to the routine.
After that, Elon Musk came to the thread with the most simple and concise answer: “Already did it.” Details were not forthcoming.
Immediately after this short answer, Musk's share price of several Chinese brain-computer interface companies, rose by almost 10%.
The thread on the social network gave rise to a heated discussion of the theory of Marcus. Opinions regarding Musk's answer were also divided: some people believe that the head of SpaceX is disingenuous, while others suggest that the billionaire could actually digitize his brain using the technology of the company he founded Neuralink. Last last year
demonstrated monkey chipping results.What do you think? Is Musk kidding? And is it even worth making your own digital copies?