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Elon Musk wants artificial quality (AI) to tackle 1 of humanity’s astir communal complaints. This time, it’s personal. Speaking candidly astir his ongoing betterment from caller cervix surgery, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO said helium is inactive dealing with backmost symptom and wishes that AI exertion gets a solution.“My backmost inactive hurts a small bit. I'm like, tin AI delight lick backmost pain? That would beryllium a immense one. And I deliberation it will,” Musk said, adding, “Back symptom sucks. I deliberation that's possibly wherefore radical get grumpy erstwhile they get aged — due to the fact that of backmost pain.”
Musk’s ‘long past of pain’
Musk’s vexation with backmost and cervix symptom is not new. The billionaire has said that helium has undergone 5 cervix and backmost operations implicit the years, each stemming from an improbable origin: a sumo wrestling incident.
“I ran afloat unit astatine a ~350 lb Sumo wrestler successful bid to flooded the ~100 lb wide quality via velocity successful the momentum exchange. I did sound him over, but smashed my cervix successful the process,” Musk said successful a effect to a station connected X successful Janaury. The wounded near him with a damaged C5-C6 disc, requiring 2 surgeries conscionable to code it.
Elon Musk has had 5 surgeries
His astir caller process — which helium described connected X successful January — was his 5th operation. He explained the aesculapian item with diagnostic bluntness: “Oh man, this is simply a agelong story. I’ve had 5 neck/back operations. The 3rd one, a C5-C6 fusion, really worked successful improving the symptom from excruciating to livable. However, the nervus exiting the close facet is inflamed and the orifice done which it exits needed to beryllium increased. Basically, my spine got reamed”.A idiosyncratic asked Musk wherefore helium had been noticeably little progressive connected X. Responding to the query, helium wrote: “Recovering from cervix surgery. Hurts a lot, but it was necessary.”
