Elon Musk: I'm about to announce a 'Neuralink' product that connects your brain to computers
"It will enable anyone who wants to have superhuman cognition," Musk said. "Anyone who wants."
"How much smarter are you with a phone or computer or without? You're vastly smarter, actually," Musk said. "You can answer any question pretty much instantly. You can remember flawlessly. Your phone can remember videos [and] pictures perfectly. Your phone is already an extension of you. You're already a cyborg. Most people don't realize you're already a cyborg. It's just that the data rate ... it's slow, very slow. It's like a tiny straw of information flow between your biological self and your digital self. We need to make that tiny straw like a giant river, a huge, high-bandwidth interface."
Musk, who spoke about Neuralink before he smoked pot on the podcast, said this sort of technology could eventually allow humans to create a snapshot of themselves that can live on if our bodies die.
"If your biological self dies, you can upload into a new unit. Literally," Musk said.
Musk said he thinks this will give humans a better chance against artificial intelligence.