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Groundbreaking new material 'could allow artificial intelligence to merge with the human brain'

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Scientists have discovered a ground-breaking bio-synthetic material that they claim can be used to merge artificial intelligence with the human brain.

The breakthrough, presented today at the American Chemical Society Fall 2020 virtual expo, is a major step towards integrating electronics with the body to create part human, part robotic "cyborg" beings.

Connecting electronics to human tissue has been a major challenge due to traditional materials like gold, silicon and steel causing scarring when implanted.

Scars not only cause damage but also interrupt electrical signals flowing between computers and muscle or brain tissue. The researchers from the University of Delaware were able to overcome this after various types of polymers.

"We got the idea for this project because we were trying to interface rigid organic microelectrodes with the brain, but brains are made out of organic, salty, live materials," said Dr David Martin, who led the study.

Could potentially heal those with traumatic brain injury yet also pose a potential for great harm. That's why there needs to be oversight...

1,367 posted on 08/17/2020 7:51:19 PM PDT by eldoradude (Bad robot)
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1,368 posted on 08/17/2020 7:59:09 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: eldoradude
That's why there needs to be oversight...

If anybody mentions a Gummint program for this, I'd suggest the developers lose the whole program down to the last sticky note.

Like yesterday.

1,382 posted on 08/17/2020 8:19:20 PM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet (This may be my last battle. I'll just have to make the most of it.)
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To: eldoradude

This here’s Billy Bob, and Cletus, O’The Borg. Y’alls fixin ta be ‘similated...


1,386 posted on 08/17/2020 8:24:49 PM PDT by Axenolith (WWG1WGA!)
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To: eldoradude

Can you say “Blue Screen of Death”?

I knew you could.


1,414 posted on 08/17/2020 9:22:31 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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