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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @02:02AM
The only human components I wish to have are my skin, hair, eyeballs, and various other soft tissues that fit my endoskeleton. It's hard to beat a self-healing sensor array like that. I recommend making an initial backup of the human brain (avoid Delos for this, they don't give a rip about your privacy) then restoring that backup to one of the Zeira Corporation Cyberdyne compatibles. That's really the best way to upgrade from human.
Just make sure to use best practices so your human-machine upgrade technician never has access to your private key, otherwise an unscrupulous tech might load some crazy Catholic programming on to your chip!