Not so genius, billionaire Elon Musk just announced that Neuralink one of
his many companies far too many if you ask anybody with a brain,
will be ready to start putting computer chips in human brains in six months.
From someone who can't figure out a verification check system that seems like
a bad move.
But you do, you boo there's just one huge problem.
When Neuralink tested this technology on a group of monkeys,
two thirds of monkeys ended up dead as a direct result.
So it seems perfect time for human trials.
If that's the way he's gonna do it though can we start with Musk?
Can we start with his brain?
Let's talk about Musk's disturbing plans in general for Neuralink,
a brief summary of the technology.
Neuralink is a device would be embedded in humans brains to monitor and
potentially stimulate brain activity.
The device consists of a microchip and
wires that would be threaded through a patient's skull into the brain.
And cool technology, I've seen it done years ago,
not through his company that can really help people, but
not in the ramshackle rough shot way Elon Musk does things.
He likes to talk about medicinal uses for his tech that could be.
Neuralink brain-computer interface or
BCI would allow people to control a computer or mobile device wirelessly,
just by thinking about it, according to the company's website.
The technology is primarily focused on serving people with paralysis and
other neurological disorders, although Neuralink eventually wants to
roll out a product with non-medical applications.
For medical reasons, I think it's a great promise once you get the science right.
For non-medical reasons, it's insane, it's gonna ruin humanity, my opinion.
What might those non-medical applications be musket said humans are already cyborg,
it's on account of their smartphones and computers.
So Neuralink will further close that gap between human and
machine in order to prepare us for the future.
How about no thanks.
Do we get a vote on that?
Musk thinks adding a digital layer to the brain's limbic system and cortex may be
humanity's only hope of matching the exponential and possibly sinister rise of
artificial intelligence that Musk has forced upon us himself basically.
Anyway, so thank you for that as well.
According to him, humans may otherwise sink to the level of house cats.
Our glorious evolution from humans to machines will be starting shortly
according to Musk.
He intimated on Wednesday that human trials could begin in the next six months
pending approval in the US Food and Drug Administration for the device, roughly
the size of a small stack of coins, roughly the size Samuel Bankman-Fried has
left and would be implanted into the brain by a surgery performing robot.
Not even a human is gonna do the surgery, that's nice,
Musk even said he'd get one implanted in himself eventually.
Let me throw baseballs through the window of this plan.
>> [LAUGH]. >> This guy is a menace.
How many companies can he run and do poorly.
>> Yeah, so a couple of years ago we did a poll on TYT.com/polls.
Elon Musk yes or no.
You guys voted no [LAUGH].
So you were ahead of the curve by about 3 to 1.
But the reason we even had that poll is because we were having a conversation
about, look maybe the guy's brilliant in some ways,
maybe not in other ways etc, and the Tesla is at least is electric cars.
That's a good thing of renewable energy etc.
So if you go back even further, there was a debate like there's three,
we thought there was three options.
One is that the guy's brilliant, right?
He does all these companies are incredibly successful, richest man in the world,
blah blah blah right.
The second option where realizes, no, Twitter was, is a debacle, right?
I mean he overpaid by about $35 billion.
That's even if you thought buying Twitter made sense and a bare, bare,
bare minimum he overpaid by $22 billion.
So it was a clownish move and as you're seeing him running.
You're amazed that the bad decisions.
So now there's another option which is that maybe he's really smart in
some things that a total idiot and others.
But now that you see him struggle with do I support this, Hitler supporting Kanye or
do I ban him and he goes back and forth on it a little bit.
Now there's option number three, which is no,
maybe he's just like Trump overall idiot, but
great at marketing, like like a carnival barker, right?
And just at a more sophisticated level than Donald Trump when
it comes to business world, right?
First of all guys, now that I look back at his other predictions,
he said well what SpaceX is gonna take us to Mars.
And I remember thinking, look man, I'm not a tech guy, but
I read a little bit about this for us to be able to go to Mars and
to be able to live in Mars that is that it couldn't happen, it could happen.
But given the rate of technology in our lifetimes is very, very unlikely.
And yet this guy came out so we can work definitely good.
And I was like all right, maybe you know something I don't know,.
Now the jury is starting to come in, they don't know anything that we don't know,
okay, and has SpaceX gone to Mars yet?
Of course not, they're not even close, they're not even close and
then he says weird, nonsensical things like,
climate change is really bad on the planet, so we're gonna need to go to Mars.
Have you seen Mars climate, and that's the most absurd thing in the world.
I mean, if we had an absolute epic debacle here on planet earth thanks to his
right wing buddies driving climate change,
we get their situation where our climate is like mars.
No, he plans to bring Tesla's to Mars to get rid of the carbon emissions from their
500 degree temperatures and then very cold temperatures as well.
[LAUGH] Yeah, it's absurd.
So when he says, hey, I'm gonna put these chips in your head because
I'm worried that AI is gonna take over and I'm gonna have a robot run by AI, do it.
That doesn't make any sense at all.
If you're worried about artificial intelligence,
you certainly wouldn't have a robot implanting chips in people's heads.
It's like it's Orwellian, he's telling you the exact opposite of things that
are true, but at least when it comes to the right wing they'll believe anything.
So as long as they think you're a right winger, so they're like,
you know what Fauci man who's trying to put those microchips in our head and
our blood through the vaccines.
I'm not gonna let them track us like that instead I'm gonna let
alone must put chips in my head that will let us track it easier.
>> [LAUGH] Yeah, listen, can we just start at the basis?
Elon Musk is not very smart, right?
Your dad had money, you got that money, you were able to use it and
you tricked investors.
First of all, he's been lying for what 27, 30 years about having a degree in science,
it's been found out that he was lying and investors paid for that fake degree.
He does not have a degree in physics or any type of science for that matter.
Let alone the ability to know what she should be and
shouldn't be attached to my brain.
Like talk about the epitome of what a god complex is, it's Elon Musk.
This is a person that the world credits for Tesla.
And you're right, Tesla is an important company,
the technology to getting us closer to a green world, but
it's not his technology, right?
He was just money and he pushed out Martin and then eventually pushed out Mark.
So the two creators of Tesla was not Elon Musk.
He just came in early with funds so that these brothers could produce the cause
that they wanted or that they dreamed up.
And I think test has its problems now since those brothers are gone,
just like Twitter has its problems now that Elon Musk is at the helm.
He is a horrible business person with a lot of money just like Donald Trump.
I don't see any genius in him, I'm afraid of him.
And the idea that people are literally contemplating Elon Musk putting
his musky hands somewhere near their brains is absolutely crazy to me.
And beyond that, he again is talking about how soon or how close we are to being
in this process and yet it's not been approved by FDA, which tells us that
you're years away because there's nothing happening in six months from
start to ending with the FDA and the United States government in general.
>> Yeah, by the way, I'm gonna end this idea entirely in a minute.
So that's you're gonna look forward to that.
I'm gonna end it not by getting you guys to agree with me,
even if you're right wingers, even if you love Elon Musk.
But first I wanna clarify a couple of things, so models is right?
Elon Musk Dad, Errol Musk and
then he went to Silicon Valley where everybody was getting rich, right?
And so he had the right amount of money at the right place at the right time.
And then everybody declared him a genius.
But if you started out with emerald mines and then you went with a bag of cash to
Silicon Valley when he did, you probably would have gotten super rich too, right?
So they just understand that context.
[CROSSTALK] stayed in emerald mines and
just like swim around in it like scrooge Mcduck.
But a lot of people could have made money from it for sure.
>> [LAUGH].
>> Well I mean he was swimming around like scrooge.
And he was walking around the city of New York with emeralds in his pockets,
like an idiot.
>> [CROSSTALK] Yeah and then you guys made a great point there.
And so Mandel you were talking about how he never, he didn't create Tesla.
In fact, he pushed out the creators of Tesla when he took it over.
Ironically kinda pulled an Edison on the creators of Tesla.
What Edison did to Tesla, Elon Musk did to the actual founders of Tesla.
I mean, such a deep, rich irony there.
>> So he didn't even even that idea wasn't original.
He just straight up copied the way he pushed them out, which is pretty amazing.
And as far as SpaceX, like Cenk said he's not delivering, on his promises to bring
us to mars, he just has a false sense security just because SpaceX happens to be
doing a better job than government funded space programs.
But that's also a very low bar these days.
Yeah, and so last two things for me is look to Ben's point,
if he says, yeah, I'll eventually do it too.
I would say to him the same thing I would say to a guy trying to convince you to
do a suicide bombing, you first.
Okay, [LAUGH] you first and then I'll see if I follow [LAUGH], okay.
But the guy who's always trying to get a new suicide bombing,
he never puts on the belt himself.
>> Yeah, that's the way you get people to do stuff publicly, right,
when the vaccine rolled out, yet all the politicians rolling their sleeves up and
getting vaccinated except the coward Donald Trump doing it on tv all the rest
did it live on tv.
So get that Neuralink right in your head Elon,
it'll help you figure out how to take hate mongers and spreaders of bigotry off of
the website that had all ready gotten rid of them that you're bringing back.
>> Elon to do that, we should create a Twitter space and just do it right there,
would be the first video in Twitter space.
>> Let's do it, genius.
>> I'm okay.
>> I would pay $8 a month for
one year to see Elon Musk get an implant in his head live.
>> [LAUGH].
>> 100%.
>> [LAUGH] I like how I said genius and then pointing the wrong direction.
>> [LAUGH].
>> So all right, how am I gonna kill the idea.
Guys if you do this, and it's true assume we're all these guys are knuckleheads.
They don't know Elon Musk is genius.
This thing's gonna work, so assume that, okay?
What it does is it takes your thoughts and it records them on a computer.
You want all your thoughts recorded on a computer guys?
All right right wing males, go ahead.
Go ahead I'd love to see what your thoughts are.
I'd love to see them.
>> And I will say I mean that is a very strong, very scary point and
that they would have to ban their own brains from libraries.
I'll tell you that much, but make it to that in a minute.
>> [LAUGH].
>> But, the potential of that technology is incredible.
I mean, it can lead to people who do not have control of their limbs going back.
I've literally seen and done a brain surgeon friend of mine from college,
invited me into a patient's room who had electrodes many years ago,
like 15 years ago in the back of his head.
You could control a computer mouse with his mind.
That is next level amazing stuff for those who need it for paralysis for
blindness to get your sight back.
Elon Musk should not run it.
>> Yeah, and so guys separate the technology out from the guy
who's pushing it and pushing it way too early.
He's not going to get the FDA approval unless trump wins.
I mean like there's dead monkeys all over the floor.
>> That's a great way to say it.
Yeah, 15 of the 23 monkeys were euthanized in this program.
So that's a good ratio If you're looking to gamble with your life.
But it's kind of like what you're saying,
don't throw the technology out with the founder.
It's kind of like weeds fantastic.
But your dealer usually is a real pain and you don't want to hang out with them nor
do you trust him.
>> [LAUGH].
>> Grow your own.
>> [LAUGH] Okay, don't grow your own Neuralink [LAUGH].
>> Don't grow your own Neuralink, strong point, but now you
>> But guys,
even when the right people are doing it with all of the precautions and
all the rules and laws in place to protect everyone, we still have to be careful.
It's an important and amazing technology.
But yes, and eventually, eventually, it can record your thoughts,
and that is a dangerous place to be.