Sam Altman’s New Startup Wants To Merge Machines And Humans

If you’ve enjoyed Elon Musk’s ongoing beef pinch Sam Altman and OpenAI, get fresh for a full caller chapter: soon they’ll beryllium rivals not conscionable successful AI, but successful brain-computer interfaces too. 

The Financial Times reports that Altman and OpenAI are backing a caller institution called Merge Labs processing encephalon implants, making it a beautiful nonstop rival to Musk’s Neuralink.

This has intelligibly been an liking of Altman’s for a while though — he wrote astir “the merge” betwixt humans and machines connected his individual blog backmost successful 2017, and connects it beautiful straight to his activity astatine OpenAI:

The merge tin return a batch of forms: We could plug electrodes into our brains, aliases we could each conscionable go really adjacent friends pinch a chatbot. But I deliberation a merge is astir apt our best-case scenario.