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During his appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, Elon Musk was asked about his opinions on the advancement of artificial intelligence and the merging of humans and machines. He spoke to Rogan about how social media platforms are essentially collectives made up of both people and machines, and how humans are “plugged in [to these platforms] like nodes on a network, leaves on a big tree."

"We’re all feeding this network without questions and answers. We’re all collectively programming the AI, and google [and] all the humans that connect to it are one giant cybernetic collective. This is also true of Facebook, and Twitter, and Instagram, and all these social networks. They’re giant cybernetic collectives."

He then went on to talk about how our smartphones are our main connection to this cybernetic network.

"Your phone is already an extension of you. You're already a cyborg. Most people don't realize you're already a cyborg. It's just that the data rate ... it's slow, very slow. It's like a tiny straw of information flow between your biological self and your digital self..."

This painting was in development for a couple months, and I had started on it long before I heard last Thursday's JRE episode. But after listening to Elon Musk explain the ever-growing symbiosis between human and artificial intelligence while I was painting, this piece suddenly gained so much more meaning.

Quite a thought-provoking subject...

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During his appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, Elon Musk was asked about his opinions on the advancement of artificial intelligence and the merging of humans and machines. He spoke to Rogan about how social media platforms are essentially collectives made up of both people and machines, and how humans are “plugged in [to these platforms] like nodes on a network, leaves on a big tree."

"We’re all feeding this network without questions and answers. We’re all collectively programming the AI, and google [and] all the humans that connect to it are one giant cybernetic collective. This is also true of Facebook, and Twitter, and Instagram, and all these social networks. They’re giant cybernetic collectives."

He then went on to talk about how our smartphones are our main connection to this cybernetic network.

"Your phone is already an extension of you. You're already a cyborg. Most people don't realize you're already a cyborg. It's just that the data rate ... it's slow, very slow. It's like a tiny straw of information flow between your biological self and your digital self..."

This painting was in development for a couple months, and I had started on it long before I heard last Thursday's JRE episode. But after listening to Elon Musk explain the ever-growing symbiosis between human and artificial intelligence while I was painting, this piece suddenly gained so much more meaning.

Quite a thought-provoking subject...