If you’ve enjoyed Elon Musk’s ongoing beef with Sam Altman and OpenAI, get ready for a whole new chapter: soon they’ll be rivals not just in AI, but in brain-computer interfaces too.
The Financial Times reports that Altman and OpenAI are backing a new company called Merge Labs developing brain implants, making it a pretty direct rival to Musk’s Neuralink.
This has clearly been an interest of Altman’s for a while though — he wrote about “the merge†between humans and machines on his personal blog back in 2017, and connects it pretty directly to his work at OpenAI:
The merge can take a lot of forms: We could plug electrodes into our brains, or we could all just become really close friends with a chatbot. But I think a merge is probably our best-case scenario.
Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/758577/sam-altman-merge-labs-neuralink-rival
Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/758577/sam-altman-merge-labs-neuralink-rival
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