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posted by Fnord666 on Friday August 28 2020, @09:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the presumably-not-an-axe dept.

Elon Musk to show off working brain-hacking device:

Elon Musk is due to demonstrate a working brain-to-machine interface as part of his ambitious plans to give people superhuman powers.

His brain-hacking company, Neuralink, applied to start human trials last year.

But Friday's demonstration will involve a robot and "neurons firing in real time", a series of tweets reveals.

The interface could allow people with neurological conditions to control phones or computers with their mind.

But the long-term ambition is to usher in an age of what Mr Musk calls "superhuman cognition".

People need to merge with artificial intelligence, he says, in part to avoid a scenario where AI becomes so powerful it destroys the human race.

[...] The device the company is developing consists of a tiny probe containing more than 3,000 electrodes attached to flexible threads thinner than a human hair, which can monitor the activity of 1,000 brain neurons.

The company has been working with monkey brains to its realize brain/computer interface.


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @11:50PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @11:50PM (#1043551)

    Keep in mind that he's more or less a pyschopath. Remember that incident with the kids in that Thai cave where he takes it on himself to invent a submarine for the job that nobody asked for and wouldn't work, announces it on line and then winds up calling one of the folks actually helping a pedophile?

    He's a really screwed up person. And that's above and beyond what it takes to become ultra-wealthy, he's just a horrible human being and hopefully the revolution won't spare him.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday August 29 2020, @12:10AM (3 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Saturday August 29 2020, @12:10AM (#1043559) Journal

    Research on brain-computer interfaces has been ongoing since the 70s. This is just an upgraded version of previous devices at best. Are all the scientists and engineers in that field also pyschotaphs?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @12:27AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @12:27AM (#1043563)

      I'm curious where you got that from. Those other researchers don't have a history of making public statements just for attention with nothing to back it up. And they certainly don't fire people merely for walking past their desks.

      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Saturday August 29 2020, @12:39AM (1 child)

        by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Saturday August 29 2020, @12:39AM (#1043566) Journal

        Nothing you brought up actually matters. This is going to be treated like a medical device for the foreseeable future, and Musk will be dead before he gets to see his cyborg vs. AI fantasy. I bet you would get one implanted if you became quadriplegic and there is nothing better on the market.

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        • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @03:32AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @03:32AM (#1043631)

          No way I'm risking Borgification. At least an immovable body is at rest and not committing atrocities. Alexa achieving self-awareness and a musky buffer overflow is all it could take to start.