Elon Musk has already launched a new company dedicated to linking human brains with computers, The Wall Street Journal's Rolfe Winkler first reported Monday.
Internal sources tell the WSJ that the company, called Neuralink, is developing "neural lace" technology that would allow people to communicate directly with machines without going through a physical interface. Neuralink was registered as a medical research company in California last July.
Neural lace involves implanting electrodes in the brain so people could upload or download their thoughts to or from a computer, according to the WSJ report. The product could allow humans to achieve higher levels of cognitive function.
[...] Musk has expressed his interest in "neural lace" technology before. Musk first described the potential product at Vox Media's Code Conference in 2016, saying it would allow humans to achieve "symbiosis" with machines.
He said the "neural lace" could prevent people from becoming "house cats" to artificial intelligence.
[...] Facebook is also exploring similar technology through its secretive hardware division Building 8. The group is developing non-invasive, brain-computer interface technology that would allow people to communicate with external hardware devices.
Source: Business Insider
(Score: 2, Insightful) by DmT on Wednesday March 29 2017, @10:23AM (2 children)
Would you like some in-brain ads with that? [Please wait. Uploading all brain metadata to the cloud]
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @12:24PM (1 child)
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @02:15PM
http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/20/10796916/branded-dreams-by-studio-smack-animated-short-film [theverge.com]