logoalt Hacker News

michaeltyesterday at 9:23 PM2 repliesview on HN

Before the rise of modern LLMs, when both AI and cybernetics were just futurists’ speculation, some people saw parallels.

For example, thinking humans wouldn’t be displaced by super intelligent machines, but would instead be augmented by them cybernetically, becoming super intelligent while still having a human soul and body.


Replies

nextaccounticyesterday at 10:31 PM

> For example, thinking humans wouldn’t be displaced by super intelligent machines, but would instead be augmented by them cybernetically, becoming super intelligent while still having a human soul and body.

If human adoption of brain-machine interfaces progresses fast enough, I don't see why this future can't still happen.

kridsdale1yesterday at 10:26 PM

Sometimes I feel rather superhuman when my meat head commands my meat hands to invoke Claude on my iPhone.

I shouldn’t have to weld to my flesh to be called a cybernetic organism.

show 1 reply