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

THE Financial time report that Altman and Openai support a new company called Merge Labs developing brain implants, making it a fairly direct rival The Naurau of musk.

It has clearly been an interest in Altman for some time – he wrote on “The merger” Between humans and machines on his personal blog in 2017, and connects it quite directly to his work in Openai:

Fusion can take many forms: we could connect electrodes to our brain, or we could all become very close friends with a chatbot. But I think that a merger is probably our best scenario of cases.