[Music]
one of the first things that comes to
mind when you look at any diagram of
evolution is that the time scales are
very very long in the order of millions
of years this is how long it took mother
nature to generate the crown of creation
us humans your kids your grandchildren I
can look exactly like you
so do you compare to your
great-great-great grandfather’s but now
for the first time in history we can
actually take over change evolution
change the course of things speed it up
create new type of species human version
2.0 I flew here two days ago in an
airplane and the thing is I didn’t
believe a lot of choices when it comes
to flying here I could choose the
airline the timing but that’s about it I
didn’t really have a lot of control but
I want to do what if I want to create my
own wings and fly myself on my own
accord if I got it for evolution to do
it
it’s going to take millions of years
maybe if it is even good for us to have
wings a little bump in the shoulder a
little feather here before it exists but
you know even though they say that we
have choices on Airlines we don’t really
have a lot of choice here well turns out
we do because we can actually build
things ourselves we know how to build
wings we know the mechanics of them we
can put them on our arms and start
flapping them but it won’t feel like we
actually control the wings until we plug
them into our brains once we plug
something to the brain the brain
immediately assumes control of that and
we feel it’s part of us now how can we
do something like that how can we plug
something to brain well turns out we
know the language of the brain the brain
speaks in electrochemical signals and if
we just turn the flapping of the wings
into the signal of the brain we can
speak to it
the brain is amazing
in interpreting signals and finding
meaning in them on its own this is what
it’s good for and we know it from all of
our lives babies when they’re born are
not taught by anyone how to see they
just get bombarded with visuals of
orientations and shapes and colors and
somehow their brains figure it out and I
start seeing so we can actually do the
same things put something in a brain and
let the brain do its magic the thing
about it is if we start putting chips
inside people’s brains we can do more
than that we can actually enhance our
current capabilities for instance
communication if I have a chip in my
brain you have one in your brain I can
actually broadcast my thoughts to you
without language right now
language is a pretty slow process I can
speak in about 150 words but I can think
600 words there’s a big barrier there
for me it’s even a smaller one because I
speak much faster in it when I’m excited
it’s even faster but still slower than
anything I still have to spend time
picking nouns and adjectives and verbs
and putting them together and then
broadcasting them to you well if I have
a chip in my brain I can just use
wireless technology to communicate
everything to you right away a one
second they talk instead of 18 minutes
really really fast way to communicate
ideas the thing is it doesn’t just end
there we can actually use the fact that
we have a chip in our brain to outsource
thinking to think of things that were
not good at and if computers solve them
for us for instance if I ask you to tell
me what’s the best next move for the
black pieces in this chess board it’s
gonna take you a lot of time to figure
out if you can even do it yourself
because we’re not really good at it
machines are much better than us in
doing that well if you have a machine in
our brain it might just take over and do
it for us we know that machines plus
humans could be even better than any
machine in the room and we can really
start doing things speedily and in a
much better way the thing that’s amazing
is if it won’t feel like we’re
outsourcing anything it will just feel
like we’re thinking the same way if I
ask you to tell me how much is six times
seven you don’t really say I’m gonna
outsource that to the prefrontal lobe
and get the answer it just happens and
you feel like you’re thinking it and it
comes out 42 it just appears so if we
can start outsourcing things in our
brain the brain is gonna assume it’s
part of it and we’ll just do it for us
and it doesn’t end with
thinking it could be also feeling
feeling is just a word that we have
invented for different processes in the
brain the brain doesn’t know what
feeling is compared to thinking it just
things that we have full control over
and think we have some control over
that’s all and if we can start feeling
and thinking using those chips we can
actually do even more than that we can
actually allocate our decision-making
processes to these chips in the same way
so for instance we take decisions that
we’re not good at and we have them
happen to us automatically you want to
think about the next book do it instead
of looking at Amazon and looking at
recommendations you will just kind of
have it in your brain and you will just
feel that you want to read this book or
the healthcare of us is gonna be
something that we’re gonna be able to
use machines to think better about so
you’re just gonna feel that you want to
have the salad because the chip is gonna
allocate resources to telling you what
you need for your body or even more
complex sources decision-making that is
really really beyond us like voting we
know that people vote usually in
uninformed way and they actually
typically vote against their best
interests now we can actually have these
chips do something that is much more
complex and choose what we’re gonna vote
for there’s no reason to think that our
thinking is in any way better than the
thinking of a machine inside our head in
fact we probably can tell that our
thinking is limited by so many biases
that you can figure out oh by the things
we can think based on the things we know
here’s what I mean by that this guy is a
professor in Germany who have been born
without his left hand so in the course
of his lifetime he was given a
prosthetic hand that he can control now
now because this was made by machine
there’s things he can do that you cannot
do like rotate his hand around its axis
360 degrees so he can actually think
thoughts that you cannot think like I
want to put a light bulb in one movement
or I need to stop my hand from rotating
all those thoughts don’t exist for you
which means that you don’t have this in
your vocabulary you bring key not sudden
their ideas there was a French author
that I really liked in the 17th century
now who said something that I really
found relevant he said people would not
have fallen in love if someone hadn’t
told them that love exists what other
things do we not experience because our
brain
cannot think about them here it becomes
really really cool it doesn’t just end
there if we can put those chips in our
brain we can actually also end deaths
that’s right
the idea of being alive for the most
part is having our brain continuously
exist our bodies we can replace Pato
we can replace our hearts our livers our
kidneys so as long as we can keep
replacing body parts we can actually
extend life beyond what we used to have
this will change everything if you
suddenly live to age 400 you can
absolutely think about things
differently relationships what does it
mean to marry someone age 30 if you’re
gonna live 400 years with them you might
want to actually have different choices
they’re clear right now you basically
get a career and you continue will I got
a PhD how many can I get in my lifetime
maybe 10 what orders should I get them
in mortgage 30 years seem like nothing
if you live to 400 and in fact if we
started placing our bodies we don’t have
to do just because we’re sick we can do
it also because we want to just change
so you know your starters are white
women and age 60 you say you know I want
to be an Asian man for a while or maybe
I want to now change my hairstyle change
everything you can actually keep
different identities in your life as
long as your brain your consciousness
remains the same and doesn’t just end
with these we can go beyond we don’t
have to remain kind of in favor of the
original evolutionary set up we can say
you know for 20 years I want to have a
Picasso face I want to move everything
around shuffle my face the idea is that
as long as that we feed things to the
brain in the same way the brain doesn’t
care it doesn’t care what the eyes start
well I put two eyes in the phone looking
at the same thing actually giving a 3d
vision but maybe put one in the back
like my teachers have in school you can
see things in both directions why do you
keep on noses so high most of the smells
are down here you wouldn’t buy a laptop
for 80 years why keep the same body for
the same 80 years if we can keep
replacing it and changing things all the
time when I was a young kid there was a
TV series that I really loved called the
Six Million Dollar men it was a TV
series about this a guy who basically
had every part of his body replaced and
he was running faster he was stronger
and the thing is when I was a kid this
TV series was in the science fiction
domain
as we get older this moves to a
different category the only thing in
science fiction about this TV series
right now is the price now for 16
dollars with the healthcare system you
can probably place a finger you can’t
really put the entire body but the idea
is nothing here in science fiction in
fact we can do a lot more than the
things we just have right now we can
actually start plotting devices that are
beyond the ones that we were born with
into our body so if you take instead of
one eye an infrared camera and fit it
into the brain it’s gonna learn somehow
to see and you can start singing for it
if you work at a TSA agent you might
want to see more things in your human I
can give you if you work in construction
or a movement you might want to put up
or static on that can I help you lift
pianos just with the power of your hands
maybe if you’re driving a lot you want
to plug the car into your stomach and
when you’re running on empty or if
you’re gonna feel hungry and you would
know that the color needs a little bit
of fuel or you can actually plug your
stock portfolio to your brain so you
feel maybe pain when your stocks fall
down and pleasure and joy when they go
up you can actually feel the market over
if you really bet on empathy you can go
on a date and have a little machinery in
your eyes analyze the other person and
tell you if you’re doing well on
microexpression on the date that’s what
we’re heading and none of that is
science fiction in fact what’s
remarkable is everything I told you up
to now are things that are already being
worked at by some academic labs
replacing brain paths connecting comic
brains – brains and communicating
replacing our existing devices and even
curing blindness and deafness by putting
retinal implants and cochlear implants
that allow us to control things that we
didn’t have when we were born now some
of you might say well it sounds like
science fiction even if you’re building
it right now because who that you put
something in their brain and here is the
magic there’s an energy here that helps
me understand where it’s happening in
1950 people felt the same about our
bodies there were sacred temples and who
would actually want to put something in
the body but fast-forward 70 years to
today one of four American girls for her
16th birthday asked her parents if she
can get breast implants suddenly it
doesn’t feel that forward to us we all
accept it we can put stuff in our body
so here’s how it’s gonna happen I think
for these devices we’re gonna maybe
start by having one wealthy individual
put a chip in his brain
and maybe do high-frequency trading in
his mind much faster it’s gonna be
grateful he was gonna be even wealthier
and then Silicon Valley is gonna jump
and say you know we want to also maybe
put some stuff in our brain and use that
to get some advantage and it’s gonna
start lowering the prices and it becomes
commercial and before long you can’t
live life without having this thing in
your brain now what’s amazing in this is
when I thought about that I realized
this is exactly how evolution works you
start with a mutation by one individual
it’s it’s amazing it’s advantageous and
then it just takes over because everyone
needs that in much inhalation we all
have this thing the only thing that’s
different between this evolution and the
old-fashioned one is that the
old-fashioned one was driven by natural
selection and the current one is purely
intelligent designed and there’s
something here that I want to end with
that really struck a chord with me that
makes me understand where it’s heading
when I looked at all of those academic
researchers that cast will be high right
now one of them stood out to me the one
about curing blindness because it
reminded me of this guy about 2017 years
ago who was the first to give sight to
the blind and when he did that we
declared him God and in many ways I
think that we’re getting to the same
place right now we realize that we’re
getting to play gods and what’s amazing
about that is that as we get to play God
we get to choose the world we live in
and define it but we also get to
understand the most interesting thing
about the universe consciousness the
essence of who we are that’s the one
thing we’re still missing the kernel of
our identity I was batting for a while
with that if you can replace everything
in your brain what is you that you
cannot be replacing then a few weeks ago
I was writing a call I find a pint
called me and I was complaining I said
I’m stuck in traffic and he said you’re
not stuck in traffic you are traffic and
in that sense I feel that maybe this is
the answer maybe there is no one part it
is us maybe all of them together make us
just me put them in the right format the
integration of all of the entities makes
us who we are which means that in the
next couple of years when all of those
building blocks are going to form into a
building that we can build to get
of building new humans we actually will
understand the essence of what it is to
be human we will understand the most
interesting thing in the universe which
is us thank you
[Applause]
one of the first things that comes to
mind when you look at any diagram of
evolution is that the time scales are
very very long in the order of millions
of years this is how long it took mother
nature to generate the crown of creation
us humans your kids your grandchildren I
can look exactly like you
so do you compare to your
great-great-great grandfather’s but now
for the first time in history we can
actually take over change evolution
change the course of things speed it up
create new type of species human version
2.0 I flew here two days ago in an
airplane and the thing is I didn’t
believe a lot of choices when it comes
to flying here I could choose the
airline the timing but that’s about it I
didn’t really have a lot of control but
I want to do what if I want to create my
own wings and fly myself on my own
accord if I got it for evolution to do
it
it’s going to take millions of years
maybe if it is even good for us to have
wings a little bump in the shoulder a
little feather here before it exists but
you know even though they say that we
have choices on Airlines we don’t really
have a lot of choice here well turns out
we do because we can actually build
things ourselves we know how to build
wings we know the mechanics of them we
can put them on our arms and start
flapping them but it won’t feel like we
actually control the wings until we plug
them into our brains once we plug
something to the brain the brain
immediately assumes control of that and
we feel it’s part of us now how can we
do something like that how can we plug
something to brain well turns out we
know the language of the brain the brain
speaks in electrochemical signals and if
we just turn the flapping of the wings
into the signal of the brain we can
speak to it
the brain is amazing
in interpreting signals and finding
meaning in them on its own this is what
it’s good for and we know it from all of
our lives babies when they’re born are
not taught by anyone how to see they
just get bombarded with visuals of
orientations and shapes and colors and
somehow their brains figure it out and I
start seeing so we can actually do the
same things put something in a brain and
let the brain do its magic the thing
about it is if we start putting chips
inside people’s brains we can do more
than that we can actually enhance our
current capabilities for instance
communication if I have a chip in my
brain you have one in your brain I can
actually broadcast my thoughts to you
without language right now
language is a pretty slow process I can
speak in about 150 words but I can think
600 words there’s a big barrier there
for me it’s even a smaller one because I
speak much faster in it when I’m excited
it’s even faster but still slower than
anything I still have to spend time
picking nouns and adjectives and verbs
and putting them together and then
broadcasting them to you well if I have
a chip in my brain I can just use
wireless technology to communicate
everything to you right away a one
second they talk instead of 18 minutes
really really fast way to communicate
ideas the thing is it doesn’t just end
there we can actually use the fact that
we have a chip in our brain to outsource
thinking to think of things that were
not good at and if computers solve them
for us for instance if I ask you to tell
me what’s the best next move for the
black pieces in this chess board it’s
gonna take you a lot of time to figure
out if you can even do it yourself
because we’re not really good at it
machines are much better than us in
doing that well if you have a machine in
our brain it might just take over and do
it for us we know that machines plus
humans could be even better than any
machine in the room and we can really
start doing things speedily and in a
much better way the thing that’s amazing
is if it won’t feel like we’re
outsourcing anything it will just feel
like we’re thinking the same way if I
ask you to tell me how much is six times
seven you don’t really say I’m gonna
outsource that to the prefrontal lobe
and get the answer it just happens and
you feel like you’re thinking it and it
comes out 42 it just appears so if we
can start outsourcing things in our
brain the brain is gonna assume it’s
part of it and we’ll just do it for us
and it doesn’t end with
thinking it could be also feeling
feeling is just a word that we have
invented for different processes in the
brain the brain doesn’t know what
feeling is compared to thinking it just
things that we have full control over
and think we have some control over
that’s all and if we can start feeling
and thinking using those chips we can
actually do even more than that we can
actually allocate our decision-making
processes to these chips in the same way
so for instance we take decisions that
we’re not good at and we have them
happen to us automatically you want to
think about the next book do it instead
of looking at Amazon and looking at
recommendations you will just kind of
have it in your brain and you will just
feel that you want to read this book or
the healthcare of us is gonna be
something that we’re gonna be able to
use machines to think better about so
you’re just gonna feel that you want to
have the salad because the chip is gonna
allocate resources to telling you what
you need for your body or even more
complex sources decision-making that is
really really beyond us like voting we
know that people vote usually in
uninformed way and they actually
typically vote against their best
interests now we can actually have these
chips do something that is much more
complex and choose what we’re gonna vote
for there’s no reason to think that our
thinking is in any way better than the
thinking of a machine inside our head in
fact we probably can tell that our
thinking is limited by so many biases
that you can figure out oh by the things
we can think based on the things we know
here’s what I mean by that this guy is a
professor in Germany who have been born
without his left hand so in the course
of his lifetime he was given a
prosthetic hand that he can control now
now because this was made by machine
there’s things he can do that you cannot
do like rotate his hand around its axis
360 degrees so he can actually think
thoughts that you cannot think like I
want to put a light bulb in one movement
or I need to stop my hand from rotating
all those thoughts don’t exist for you
which means that you don’t have this in
your vocabulary you bring key not sudden
their ideas there was a French author
that I really liked in the 17th century
now who said something that I really
found relevant he said people would not
have fallen in love if someone hadn’t
told them that love exists what other
things do we not experience because our
brain
cannot think about them here it becomes
really really cool it doesn’t just end
there if we can put those chips in our
brain we can actually also end deaths
that’s right
the idea of being alive for the most
part is having our brain continuously
exist our bodies we can replace Pato
we can replace our hearts our livers our
kidneys so as long as we can keep
replacing body parts we can actually
extend life beyond what we used to have
this will change everything if you
suddenly live to age 400 you can
absolutely think about things
differently relationships what does it
mean to marry someone age 30 if you’re
gonna live 400 years with them you might
want to actually have different choices
they’re clear right now you basically
get a career and you continue will I got
a PhD how many can I get in my lifetime
maybe 10 what orders should I get them
in mortgage 30 years seem like nothing
if you live to 400 and in fact if we
started placing our bodies we don’t have
to do just because we’re sick we can do
it also because we want to just change
so you know your starters are white
women and age 60 you say you know I want
to be an Asian man for a while or maybe
I want to now change my hairstyle change
everything you can actually keep
different identities in your life as
long as your brain your consciousness
remains the same and doesn’t just end
with these we can go beyond we don’t
have to remain kind of in favor of the
original evolutionary set up we can say
you know for 20 years I want to have a
Picasso face I want to move everything
around shuffle my face the idea is that
as long as that we feed things to the
brain in the same way the brain doesn’t
care it doesn’t care what the eyes start
well I put two eyes in the phone looking
at the same thing actually giving a 3d
vision but maybe put one in the back
like my teachers have in school you can
see things in both directions why do you
keep on noses so high most of the smells
are down here you wouldn’t buy a laptop
for 80 years why keep the same body for
the same 80 years if we can keep
replacing it and changing things all the
time when I was a young kid there was a
TV series that I really loved called the
Six Million Dollar men it was a TV
series about this a guy who basically
had every part of his body replaced and
he was running faster he was stronger
and the thing is when I was a kid this
TV series was in the science fiction
domain
as we get older this moves to a
different category the only thing in
science fiction about this TV series
right now is the price now for 16
dollars with the healthcare system you
can probably place a finger you can’t
really put the entire body but the idea
is nothing here in science fiction in
fact we can do a lot more than the
things we just have right now we can
actually start plotting devices that are
beyond the ones that we were born with
into our body so if you take instead of
one eye an infrared camera and fit it
into the brain it’s gonna learn somehow
to see and you can start singing for it
if you work at a TSA agent you might
want to see more things in your human I
can give you if you work in construction
or a movement you might want to put up
or static on that can I help you lift
pianos just with the power of your hands
maybe if you’re driving a lot you want
to plug the car into your stomach and
when you’re running on empty or if
you’re gonna feel hungry and you would
know that the color needs a little bit
of fuel or you can actually plug your
stock portfolio to your brain so you
feel maybe pain when your stocks fall
down and pleasure and joy when they go
up you can actually feel the market over
if you really bet on empathy you can go
on a date and have a little machinery in
your eyes analyze the other person and
tell you if you’re doing well on
microexpression on the date that’s what
we’re heading and none of that is
science fiction in fact what’s
remarkable is everything I told you up
to now are things that are already being
worked at by some academic labs
replacing brain paths connecting comic
brains – brains and communicating
replacing our existing devices and even
curing blindness and deafness by putting
retinal implants and cochlear implants
that allow us to control things that we
didn’t have when we were born now some
of you might say well it sounds like
science fiction even if you’re building
it right now because who that you put
something in their brain and here is the
magic there’s an energy here that helps
me understand where it’s happening in
1950 people felt the same about our
bodies there were sacred temples and who
would actually want to put something in
the body but fast-forward 70 years to
today one of four American girls for her
16th birthday asked her parents if she
can get breast implants suddenly it
doesn’t feel that forward to us we all
accept it we can put stuff in our body
so here’s how it’s gonna happen I think
for these devices we’re gonna maybe
start by having one wealthy individual
put a chip in his brain
and maybe do high-frequency trading in
his mind much faster it’s gonna be
grateful he was gonna be even wealthier
and then Silicon Valley is gonna jump
and say you know we want to also maybe
put some stuff in our brain and use that
to get some advantage and it’s gonna
start lowering the prices and it becomes
commercial and before long you can’t
live life without having this thing in
your brain now what’s amazing in this is
when I thought about that I realized
this is exactly how evolution works you
start with a mutation by one individual
it’s it’s amazing it’s advantageous and
then it just takes over because everyone
needs that in much inhalation we all
have this thing the only thing that’s
different between this evolution and the
old-fashioned one is that the
old-fashioned one was driven by natural
selection and the current one is purely
intelligent designed and there’s
something here that I want to end with
that really struck a chord with me that
makes me understand where it’s heading
when I looked at all of those academic
researchers that cast will be high right
now one of them stood out to me the one
about curing blindness because it
reminded me of this guy about 2017 years
ago who was the first to give sight to
the blind and when he did that we
declared him God and in many ways I
think that we’re getting to the same
place right now we realize that we’re
getting to play gods and what’s amazing
about that is that as we get to play God
we get to choose the world we live in
and define it but we also get to
understand the most interesting thing
about the universe consciousness the
essence of who we are that’s the one
thing we’re still missing the kernel of
our identity I was batting for a while
with that if you can replace everything
in your brain what is you that you
cannot be replacing then a few weeks ago
I was writing a call I find a pint
called me and I was complaining I said
I’m stuck in traffic and he said you’re
not stuck in traffic you are traffic and
in that sense I feel that maybe this is
the answer maybe there is no one part it
is us maybe all of them together make us
just me put them in the right format the
integration of all of the entities makes
us who we are which means that in the
next couple of years when all of those
building blocks are going to form into a
building that we can build to get
of building new humans we actually will
understand the essence of what it is to
be human we will understand the most
interesting thing in the universe which
is us thank you
[Applause]
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