It does not end well.
Posted on 08/25/2020 6:36:59 PM PDT by dynachrome
Elon Musk’s brain-machine interface company, Neuralink, has an event scheduled for later this week to update the public on its progress since last year’s presentation. While the agenda is speculative for the most part, one expectation is a live demonstration of neuron activity.
“Will show neurons firing in real-time on August 28th. The matrix in the matrix,” Musk tweeted at the end of July.
He also revealed a few other clues about the early fall announcement at the beginning of the year. “Wait until you see the next version vs what was presented last year. It’s *awesome*,” he wrote in February. “The profound impact of high bandwidth, high precision neural interfaces is underappreciated. Neuralink may have this in a human as soon as this year. Just needs to be unequivocally better than Utah Array, which is already in some humans & has severe drawbacks.”
As its name implies, the roles of neuron activities are very important to Neuralink’s technology. The venture’s long-term goal of obtaining human symbiosis with artificial intelligence (AI) begins by connecting electrodes throughout the brain and reading its neuron signals en masse.
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No. Just ... no.
Can’t he just upload it to his followers’ brain? Cut out the middleman.
You mean Skynet?
This I am NOT thrilled about.
Skynet is self-aware.
Larry Niven wrote some interesting sci-fi about “wire heads and wire-heading” centered around his character Louis Wu...
The wire head pretty much gives up everything else in life once it’s possible to directly stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain...
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“wire head”
Good stories, including the one where a guy was murdered by the wire being jacked into his brain and the timer disabled. Starved to death in his room behind a locked door.
Are you Saraw Connuh? I’ll be back!
It does not end well.
Wow. I lead a boring life. ;)
Yeah...that’s what should concern us.
We are the Borg
You will be assimilated
Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own
Your culture will adapt to service us
Resistance is futile.
Ditto
No good can come from it.
Joe Biden will be the prototype.
Have him do the demonstration in the dark.
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