Posted on 07/20/2020 10:16:55 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
In the past, the notion of human brain-machine interfaces (BMI) was confined to science fiction, depicted most recently in film and television shows like Anon and Altered Carbon. These two productions and others like them foretell of an age where human interactivity with machines will be seamless, providing enhanced data capabilities and beyond.
The technology to make such BMIs a reality may not be as far-fetched as you might think. Neuralink, a company co-founded by Elon Musk, is developing next-generation brain-machine interfaces with scalable neural channel density and real-time data processing.
Some of the stated use cases for this technology include a full articulation of the digits in a prosthetic hand via a wireless Neuralink implant or the ability to see with electrodes replacing the optic nerve.
Featured in the Neuralink Launch Event in 2019, the N1 is a hermetically-sealed SoC featuring 1,024 channels in a 4 mm x 5 mm package, processing 200 Mbps of data per channel using only 6.6 microwatts of power.
It is capable of compressing neurological data up to 200 times making it suitable for Bluetooth transmission. The chipset is embedded in the skull and connected to ultra-thin filaments called "threads," containing 32 gold electrodes per thread. These threads are embedded in the flesh of the brain, with electrodes less than 60 microns from their target neuron by a custom-built, surgeon-assisted robot.
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How do you adjust the volume?
Music? Think bigger! How about linking your optic nerves to a smartphone linked to satellite camera systems. See anything on the surface of Earth while you move around - while also watching your step in front of you.
ruh-roh. Not a good idea to be messing around in areas that one shouldn’t be messing around in...
Maybe we could culture a few tons of brain matter in a large vat, grown on a matrix of these chips, and networked at ultra high speed to the Internet, and connect to it with our own embedded chips, to kind of “chat”.
That was the plot of the X-Files ep “Kill Switch”.
Who are we kidding?
People will be thinking, "How does this work for porn?"
Black Mirror.
That would be highly useful for Joe Biden, he needs the chat stimulation to complete a speech or interview. But Biden would still mess up. Hopefully his brain matter won't be donated for such a cause (ab-normal).
As in "Lawnmower Man"... so true, so true.
Not so much “Skynet” as “Wire-heads”.
As soon as the scum of the earth hack how to do it the druggies will have the ultimate high.
Zap directly to the pleasure center of the brain!
Of course like so many things overuse will deaden the nerve, so keep increasing the voltage until that part of the brain is fried.
What does the addict do then, when pleasure is dead for them, assuming they survive?
I’m not seeing this sort of cyborg activity as progress.
Don't we do that already?
Nice try Elon, but u need to to have more primal thoughts as to how your super duper tech will be used, u know, along the lines of Starman being launched to Mars in a Tesla.
Elon also said that AI had demonic implications.
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