Sam Altman’s new startup wants to merge machines and humans

If you’ve enjoyed Elon Musk’s ongoing beef with Sam Altman and OpenAI, get acceptable 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 beauteous nonstop rival to Musk’s Neuralink.

This has intelligibly been an involvement of Altman’s for a portion though — helium wrote astir “the merge” betwixt humans and machines connected his idiosyncratic blog backmost successful 2017, and connects it beauteous straight to his enactment astatine OpenAI:

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