South African Cyborg

 Dear Mr Musk

The News And Weather channel tells me that you plan to save mankind. I'm all for saving mankind.

Your sci-fi like plan to implant chips in the human head had me riveted. I stopped implanting chips in my stomach in order to listen closely. You see artificial intelligence as a potential threat to humankind. In South Africa, it's the lack of intelligence, artificial or otherwise, that threatens us. Particularly in the rarified atmosphere in which our movers and shakers move and shake.

Nevertheless sir, I have a proposition. I'm willing to be a test pilot, for the sake of humanity, vorsprung durch technik and all those other lekker things. I do this gratis. My only condition is that the chip enable me to beat the lotto and various casino games. This would surely be a worthy test. Also a resounding defeat for one area of AI that's been walloping mankind for far too long. Surely, success will convince even the most sceptical among us. 

After a month of lucr.., sorry, intense research and trialling, I would return your chip. What could be more inspirational than having a South African test-drive a brilliant initiative by a South African born innovator?

I can see the EFF ground forces marching in support and celebration.

I am an excellent candidate, as discretion is my middle - no my first - name. I would keep to myself any winni..., I mean, intellectual property information. Like some South African politicians, I didn't do particularly well at Math 

Except for algebra, which is surely the most mathematical way of stating the obvious. What else could a + b be but a + b? The point is: if I can crack the jackpot with your technology, what can we / you not achieve?

Ready when you are, sir.

Yours in the struggle to boldly go where none has gone before.

Richard