Post: #1

Wow, imagine all the good that can come from this.....


http://www.ibtimes.com.au/elon-musk-back...re-1548569

Quote:Scientists continue to devise ways and use modern-day technology to help people spot and curb diseases. Recently, technology titans have stepped up efforts to support scientific studies seeking to merge computers with the human brain.

Implanting tiny electrodes in human brains may be a far-off idea for many people, but for relentless tech industry futurists like Elon Musk and Kernel co-founder Bryan Johnson, it is the way to go. The launching of medical research organization Neuralink Corp signals that the two entrepreneurs are bent on kickstarting their vision to ameliorate cognitive disorder symptoms and eventually make the brain work faster, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Putting a chip in the brain to release electrical signals is no mean feat. Yet the startup co-founder and his team of neuroscientists and software engineers have remained undaunted.  Kernel believes that in time, human intelligence will be supercharged by artificial intelligence.

The idea of a brain computer interface is also welcomed by other innovative minds like professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab and MIT McGovern Institute. Among these people is Adam Marblestone, research scientist-turned chief strategy officer of Kernel.

The brain is a complex organ and the companies involved with Neuralink realise the big hurdles along the way.  To help gather more comprehensive neural data, come up with less invasive approaches and advance its neuroscience projects, Kernel has onboarded other scientific minds.

Kernel recently welcomed into its fold Kendall Research Systems CEO Christian Wentz as vice president. Wentz is noted for launching multiple startup companies in the neuroengineering field and for working on next-generation neural interfaces.

Also joining Kernel in probing deeper into the possibilities of uncovering solutions to curb neurological disorders is Edward Boyden, MIT Media Lab professor of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences. He has developed tools for analysing and repairing complex biological systems such as the brain.

Indeed, things are looking up as far as accelerating the capabilities of the human brain is concerned. Kernel has been upfront in acknowledging the years of medical research entailed by its thrusts. With tech titans like Musk strongly backing a brain computer interface venture, it may not be long for humans to keep up with the advancements made in machines.

"Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence,” the Tesla CEO said. He added that “it's mostly about the bandwidth, the speed of the connection between your brain and the digital version of yourself, particularly output," the Verge reported.

What could go wrong?

Post: #2

Has to happen sooner or later. I for one would be pretty happy with never stabbing this panel of buttons with my fingers ever again like some kind of chimp.

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Post: #4

Unless absolutely necessary I would rather pass, screw the benefits, you are an indentured servant to those in control of the tech. You are essentially joining the borg

Post: #5

About 30 years ago I was in NYC, and I met this really interesting dude who appeared to be a lunatic basket case. He was telling me how government was wiretapping his phone and spying onto him through the TV inside of his apartment. When I asked him why would the government do something like that, he quipped "because they want to put the chip inside my brain, man!"

I think that guy was onto something... because that "basket case" is now me.

Post: #6

With CIA having access to all chips in the world? LOL no thanks

Post: #7

(03-28-2017 10:53 AM)Steve McQueen Wrote:  Unless absolutely necessary I would rather pass, screw the benefits, you are an indentured servant to those in control of the tech. You are essentially joining the borg

Aren't you already part of the borg? What percentage of your day doesn't involve a screen?

Post: #8

Yeah but its my choice to click on a link, to listen to an idea, to entertain an argument. If the ability to force any of these into my brain without my say so is given to somebody else I lose my free will to self determine. There is a major difference

Post: #9

(03-28-2017 10:55 AM)The Way We Were Wrote:  About 30 years ago I was in NYC, and I met this really interesting dude who appeared to be a lunatic basket case. He was telling me how government was wiretapping his phone and spying onto him through the TV inside of his apartment. When I asked him why would the government do something like that, he quipped "because they want to put the chip inside my brain, man!"

I think that guy was onto something... because that "basket case" is now me.

Strong first post. Good username to topic correlation.

Post: #10

Aside from the surveilance and kill switch potential:
Just as with crafts or martial arts, this will only make the effort of those that honed their skill through time and organs so much more valuable (and honorable?)

Post: #11

(03-28-2017 10:58 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  With CIA having access to all chips in the world? LOL no thanks

They would already know what we're thinking before we even put it on Facebook. I mean NSAbook.

Post: #12

The world is fast turning into that of S.L.A. Industries RPG. As the CEO of that universe said, "Hey - this hellhole is the world people want."

Post: #13

Unlike most tech billionaires, Mr Musk has spoken about the dangers of general AI, so I'm not as worried as I would be if someone else did it.

Post: #14

I would rather live like an 18th-century English farmer than a high-tech cyborg serf with a self-driving car. No thanks, Elon. I value my humanity over technological codependence.

Computers are a great thing when there are boundaries. The problem is that the leftist globalist elite have no conception of boundaries. No borders between nations. No obstacles to sexual deviancy. No separation of man and machine.

They delight in taking good things and perverting them. If it isn't happening yet with tech like this, it will soon.

Post: #15

Brain Chips are hard to withdraw from or unplug from and requires surgery to remove. Unlike the device I am using now that can simply be unplugged from power if I want and very easy to do so. Opting out is so much easier with current tech separated from human body but not so much when embedded.

Also imagine the mind control potential for this thing or reading one's own mind.

Not only that but one is also likely giving up many of the advantages of being a completely organic being.

Post: #16

The day intelligence enhancing chips will become common place, will be the day you'll be FORCED to use them, or become obsolete.
Let's imagine they give everyone a very high IQ, ability to think quickly, have access to all information instantly, or even talk to each other via the chip without word, open doors, buy items, ...
The remaining humans will be monkeys compared to such beings.

Note that I wouldn't add a chip to my brain, as I wouldn't control what the linked compagny would do to me.
Still, in two or three generations, the choice will maybe not be one.

Post: #17

I think Mr. Musk has seen the premiere of the Ghost in the Shell movie quite recently and decided it's going to be the next big thing. The movie will be released this week, won't it?

The thing is, that a read-only interface from brain to chip/internet is not possible. You can restrict the communication protocol, but there always has to be bidirectional communication. A brain chip could be hacked........

Ghost in the Shell is one of the first and most thorough "science-fiction" universes investigating a society where neural implants and a completely linked world is reality.

Post: #18

(03-28-2017 10:58 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  With CIA having access to all chips in the world? LOL no thanks

Exactly. Every single intelligence agency around the globe is demanding backdoors into all kinds of technology & software...and now these guys want computers in our brains??!?

GTFOH.

Post: #19

Reminds me of an episode of The Outer Limits
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_o...er_Limits)

Post: #20

Isn't Elon Musk that "incredibly successful guy" that basically hoovers up government money from progressive eco-tard administrations to turn out bullshit renewable energy products that would utterly fail without huge taxpayer funded subsidies?

Or have I got the wrong guy?

Sounds like he's the worlds most successful snake oil salesman. I take this new announcement as such.

Post: #21

At least in The Matrix you could unplug yourself.

Post: #22

Then the earth was hit by a massive solar flare...

Post: #23

Remember that scene in Mission Impossible 3 at the beginning of the movie where Keri Russel goes cross-eyed-super-ugly-dead after they bug her brain?

I'm sure that could never happen with an Elon Musk designed brain implant.

And that the CIA won't have root access from the get-go.

Post: #24

(03-28-2017 05:34 PM)void Wrote:  I think Mr. Musk has seen the premiere of the Ghost in the Shell movie quite recently and decided it's going to be the next big thing. The movie will be released this week, won't it?

The thing is, that a read-only interface from brain to chip/internet is not possible. You can restrict the communication protocol, but there always has to be bidirectional communication. A brain chip could be hacked........

Ghost in the Shell is one of the first and most thorough "science-fiction" universes investigating a society where neural implants and a completely linked world is reality.

It'll be a cold day in hell before I implant a chip in my brain:

Quote:"In the Ghost in the Shell series, Laughing Man proves to be the ultimate hacker, capable of such feats as hijacking multiple video streams simultaneously, taking over someone’s cybernetic brain entirely, or even editing his own images out of someone’s cybernetic eyes, and all in real time."

We have evidence of the bloody CIA causing cars to go haywire and crash with deadly results.

Will the masses readily adopt augmented reality that's implanted into their brain? I don't know about you guys, but I think we're going to come to a point where there will be a sort of backlash against this type of stuff from children, to basic bitches, and even self proclaimed "tech nerds".

Post: #25

It's like the Belko experiment, no thanks!. I feel like technology has already made our lives sterile and pointless in a sense. The only upside is it could potentially make us more collectivist and altruistic. All technology has pros and cons.