China Kicks Off Human Testing of Implantable Brain-Computer Interface Devices
China Kicks Off Human Testing of Implantable Brain-Computer Interface Devices
Hm. I trust China with this more than Musk, but still not quite sure what to think of it. This is not a tech that can coexist with capitalism (China not a problem, but other countries importing or copying it) without the absolute worst outcomes.
I don't excuse China, it can still be a problem. Managed capitalism, even if well managed, is playing with fire and still dangerous.
still I'm not sticking one in my head until it's completely open source(software and hardware schematics)and can run openBSD on it(and have a seizure everytime I encounter a driver issue lol)
Oh absolutely. I'm not putting proprietary tech in my head. (Says the gal who takes proprietary psychiatric meds...)
Honestly yeah this is kind of a game over for the hopes of revolution type tech if taken far enough in terms of interfacing with things like memory if they have enough time for mass deployment. You could instantly detect anti-capitalist thought and report it or detonate the chip, perhaps even program and indoctrinate people repeatedly depriving them of free will. If it gets to the point the capitalists can do that we're fucked, it's just over for us. That plus AI plus automation and robotics is a bad mix. Under socialism it would of course be amazing and to great benefit but I deeply fear what happens if this tech gets advanced enough to more than read but also write which seems inevitable. At that point they just pressure the population into them, especially those most likely to revolt while allowing top white collar workers to opt out for the time being.
I don't know, no good answer, if China doesn't do this work someone else will but I almost think it's the type of thing that should be done in absolute secret by security vetted individuals. There's no way the west allows Chinese brain chips anywhere near us so we'll never see the benefit anyways.
look, all I'm saying is that if they can implant Mandarin in my brain, I say go for it, it's a really difficult language to learn
I'd settle for a Mao Zedong Thought implant
They'll put on the implant, but instead of speaking mandarin you'll start speaking Maoist Standard English
kkklose enough, it'll terrify all the kkkrakkkas just as much
This was one of the final plots of the show "Dollhouse." People with cybernetic implants could store memories on external drives and swap them out as needed or make copies. So if you wanted to learn Mandarin, you could load up a native speaker's memories and copy them over to your brain, then replace it with something else if you wanted to free up space in your head.
And of course, there's The Matrix.
... and Johnny Mnemonic
Nope, still don't want it.
There is no need for this shit. We could be doing some real important stuff with our technology instead of this.
Unless it's for helping blindness and stuff, then go for it
According to the article they're developing it for people who've been paralyzed in accidents (Specifically spinal cord injuries), so that they can control either their existing limbs or prosthesis using their mind. It's intended as a disability aid.
The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?
Most of that is scifi copium propagated by mainstream media from my understanding (its been over 7 years since I have since I was involved in academics related to BCI and at least back then from what I remember there were restrictions with our brains that made it seem impossible for sci fantasy applications like downloading/uploading your brain, uploading skills to your brain, reading your thoughts, using the internet with your mind, gaining superhuman augemented intelligence, etc (I feel like its more nanotechnology territory if done in conjunction but idk things look far less plausible and limiting when you start learning and I don't really know anything about nanotechnology and I am out of touch with how far neuroscience and BCI has progressed by now)) and the applications are primarily treating disabilities and neurological conditions. Also BCI can also be non invasive like this keyboard input with P300 waves and there are opensource boards for that which you could buy yourself but they are expensive. Misconceptions are especially dangerous here since it is being used for something law enforcement (I remember reading recently about the Indian government using BCI for checking if someone is guilty or not, it gets rejected by their highest level of court but on lower levels it gets accepted as evidence if they consent to the tests and the expensive kits [efficacy of such a system isextremely questionable and it faced criticism but we live in a capitalist dystopia and those expensive kits are sold by some corpo])
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Imagine if humans could download their thoughts and memories to an external device for others. What a wild and mysterious future that would be.
I think they did a red dwarf episode about that, showing Rimmer's eulogy and how he'd envisioned himself and the crew
a fun short story on the subject https://archive.org/details/ted-chiang-the-truth-of-fact-the-truth-of-feeling
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
China lapping Elon
it's good now
Getting a brain chip with an AI to auto correct my disintegrating sight or a something to fix the broken audio processing would be kinda neat.
So it looks like that they are currently able to use the tech to give a high fidelity mouse controll with some keyboard shortcuts. That is super cool, howver I have seen people do things like that with non-implanted bci units. It is not obvious to me that the extra fidelity is worth the risk as yet. There is a twitch streamer that beat some eldin ring using mind controll.
