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“The AI in our devices is something we’re used to controlling. Want to play a song? Ask Siri. Need to find a nearby pizza place? Google Assistant is your pal. Elon Musk, apparently, has different plans. At this summer’s Code conference in California, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO said he’s developing a new kind of AI. It wouldn’t wait for your directions. It would interact with you, get to know you, become a part of you. He calls it AI you can “talk to” and “reason with.” More unsettlingly, he says, it could become part of your brain.”

Yes, you read that right. The billionaire entrepreneur and seemingly part-time mad scientist, Elon Musk, is at it once again. This time, he’s imagining a world where artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t merely a digital butler waiting on your every command, but an active companion practically fused to your cerebral cortex. Must be just another casual day at the office for Elon.

In Musk’s future vision, quantum leaps beyond Siri’s “What can I help you with?” approach, his AI wouldn’t just wait around to take orders. No. It would actively engage, learn about you – your preferences, your idiosyncrasies, your pet peeves. It might even go beyond acting as a glorified digital cadet, to the extent that it becomes a “part of your brain.”

Yes, it is as if digital assistants weren’t already pushing their boundaries far enough into our everyday lives. Now, Musk wants them to burrow their way straight into our neural pathways. What could possibly go wrong?

Rest assured, as bizarre as it might sound, this isn’t just a flight of fancy from someone who likes to shoot rockets into space for fun. At the Code conference, Musk revealed he’s working on actual technology to make this happen – under the enigmatic (and slightly unsettling) name of “extended AI.”

So, brace for a future where our digital companions aren’t just quietly present in our devices but are intimately intertwined with our thoughts and experiences. It is a radical departure from the passive AI assistants of the present, a change that might come with its fair share of risks and benefits.

In all fairness, instead of the standard reaction of running for the hills, it might be worthwhile to sit back and ponder over what such profound integration of AI in our lives could mean for our future. After all, if it’s Elon Musk who’s backing this idea, it will be foolish to dismiss it outright. However, caution and skepticism are not unwarranted because, as we’ve seen from past experiences, Musk’s propositions are as much Titanic-sized icebergs of potential disaster as they are groundbreaking strokes of genius.

So here’s to new advancements and perhaps enough intrigue to keep an eye on the situation as it unfolds. Exciting, alarming, or utterly terrifying – whatever your perspective, the AI game is about to get far more personal than ever before.

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