Actually got it! It's not that I don't understand, the world is changing fast!
Musk suddenly announced in the Wall Street Journal that the "brain-computer interface" device is expected to be used in humans next year to help quadriplegics restore full-body function.
As soon as the news came out, it shocked the world.
Actually, the world is really changing too fast.
Sure enough, the prophecy came true.
I remember in the first half of this year, Musk showed a video: monkeys used their own year, facing the interface computer with Neuralink, playing table tennis games with their own ideas.
The monkey's skull was implanted with a chip that could be charged wirelessly, and there was nothing unusual about the monkey's surface.
Musk's brain-computer interface technology is really to transfer from animals to humans. Start a full business operation.
What is Brain-Computer Interface Technology?
Specifically, through minimally invasive surgery, a chip is implanted into the brain quickly and painlessly, reading brain waves in real time, transmitting them wirelessly, and then controlling them with mobile phones.
A sensor about the size of a coin, implanted in the top of the human brain, is linked to the human brain.
After implantation, this small "coin" can wirelessly transmit brainwave data, so that the brain-computer can transmit instructions in real time.
Unlike before, this time it is a wireless transmission, which only needs to be linked to the "Bluetooth" of the phone .
What's even more amazing is that this device only needs to be charged at night, can be used all day during the day, and can even be charged wirelessly.
2. How is this chip implanted in the brain? The answer is: surgical robot V2
Don't underestimate this machine, with him, the operation will be very easy: first open the skull, remove a small piece of skull, then implant clicks and wires, and finally install a chip device to fill the gap in the skull.
The whole process is completed within one hour and can be discharged on the day of surgery. General anesthesia is not required, as long as it is handled properly, there is no bleeding during the operation, and there is only a small scar on the head after the operation.
3. Some people may question: Punching a hole in the brain, this is not an hour, Musk is joking, right?
Don't worry, in fact, before the monkey, it has been tested on pigs.
The red light wave is the brain activity information of the pig "second brother" read
If it has been tested on animals before, Musk announced that next year, this equipment will officially enter the human body.
The world is stunned, because this technology will completely change the way humans and machines interact, and the technological thunder is brewing, and a storm will come.
Two
Maybe you don't know what this technology will bring us once it is used successfully.
The answer is simple, and the main ones are four points:
1, with the intention to control things: after the realization of this technology, human beings can not speak, as long as through the mind, you can control foreign objects at will, in order to control things!
For example:
Think about one day in the future, wake up in the morning, and as soon as your mind moves, the lights will turn on.
Silently in your heart, the coffee machine began to automatically heat your coffee for a long time.
If you are too lazy to do it, you can also control the mechanical arm to help you, and all of this is done by the mind to help you.
Previously, it was thought to be just a myth, but now Musk's technological breakthrough shows that it will all become a reality.
At the opening ceremony of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, paralyzed youth Liano Pinto wore such a large, bulky exoskeleton and kicked the first goal of the World Cup through the brain-computer interface.
2, enhance the brain: through the brain-computer interface, improve the operation of the brain, so that we always feel like just slept a good awakening, energetic, focused, quick thinking, can do a thing efficiently and soberly.
At present, this work has achieved certain results. For example, there is a company called Smart Cap in San Francisco, which makes an EEG into a baseball cap. This product can be used to alleviate fatigue driving of truck drivers, improve concentration, and reduce traffic hazards.
Previously, the American ABM company trained experimenters through the EEG brain-computer interface, so that the novice learning speed was 2.3 times higher than the original.
3, lossless communication: with the brain-computer interface, humans do not use language, only rely on the brain electrical signals in the brain can communicate with each other, to achieve "lossless" brain information transmission
This brain-brain interaction, the essence of which is transmitted to each other, is the activity of neuronal swarms. Unlike the ambiguity of language and the inadequacy of words, it is a complete, 100% , information-free " comprehension " of the mind.
This is something that Facebook scientists are now working on. They want people to think about something at the same time, to spread the idea to the skin of others, so that people can "hear" the voice through the skin, and then achieve communication.
What is heart-to-heart? This is the true heart-to-heart seal!
4, transplant memory: after the realization of this technology, we can have a lot of knowledge and skills in a short period of time, and obtain superpowers that ordinary humans cannot have.
Memory transplantation is the focus of research in this area. Now, American scientists have discovered the memory code of the brain's hippocampus, and began to try to use a chip to back up the memory, and then implant the chip into another brain to achieve memory transplantation. This experiment has been successful in monkeys.
That is, if you don't know English, German, French, and other languages; implanted in the brain through this chip; you may have a lot of more memories out of thin air; you may sleep one night, and you will master five or six foreign languages;
When this technology is realized, human memory can be transplanted.
The ultimate purpose of this technology is to transmit a large amount of information and data to the brain through brain-computer interface technology, or upload the brain's consciousness to the computer, and finally realize the immortality of human consciousness and memory in the computer world.
If the experiment is successful, in the future, although a person's body dies, it can store his soul in another system, and even transfer this soul to other bodies!
You read that right, the eternal life that humanity has been seeking all along may be achieved. How incredible this is, but the various scientific and technological advances in reality are bringing us closer to this goal little by little!
Anyway, it's a brain-opening thing!
Three
A mighty upheaval has arrived!
Why did Musk start Neuralink, a brain-computer interface company? This company doesn't seem to have much to do with his "multi-planet species project", right?
Looking back, what was Musk pushing for the Multiplanetary Species Program for?
The main purpose is to improve the survival rate of human beings and reduce the possibility of human extinction - we can compare those threats that may cause significant harm to human beings and even extinction as "evil dragons".
What is the greatest threat to the future of humanity?
greenhouse effect? Population explosion? Asteroid hitting Earth?
Neither.
The above threats have ways and paths to solve, it is difficult to have too much impact on the survival of human beings as a whole, and it is almost impossible to lead to the demise of human beings.
Full-scale nuclear war is a relatively close option. However, considering the existence of some defensive measures and the constraints of various balancing factors, the possibility of human extinction due to all-out nuclear war is also very small.
Super Virus is an option. Super viruses are more dangerous than all-out nuclear war. Considering the exponential growth trend and abuse potential of gene editing technology, the probability of super viruses posing an extinct threat to human survival in the future will rise. However, it takes a certain amount of time for the virus to spread, and humans can still control the damage caused by the super virus before it poses an extinct threat to humans. (P.S. This is the first article in early 2019, when the world was still quite peaceful, but now many things have happened, and related things are still fermenting, I hope it will not evolve too intensely!) ）
Nanorobots. This technology is still a long way from landing, and it is difficult to determine whether it can be realized in the next few decades. However, once nanorobots are realized, considering the performance of nanorobots that may far exceed the efficiency of biological structures , the loss of control of nanorobots , there is a high possibility of human extinction.
The above threats are not lacking in seriousness, but compared to the threat of super artificial intelligence, it is a small witch.
Whether super artificial intelligence can be realized is actually not too controversial. The controversy is mainly about when super artificial intelligence will be realized.
The average person's consideration is that super artificial intelligence is unlikely to be realized in the near future, and even whether it can be realized is uncertain.
The consideration of Musk and others is that no matter when super artificial intelligence can be realized, as long as it can be realized, it will pose a permanent existential threat to mankind. In the face of the prospect that if it occurs, it will bring permanent existential threats, even if the probability of occurrence is low, we must pay enough attention.
The threat of super artificial intelligence is not only that it may lead to the extinction of human beings, but also that it may lead to the permanent enslavement and play of human beings.
In short, life and freedom are completely autonomous—no matter what the specific situation is, it is no different from extinction.
Since the threat of the dragon of super artificial intelligence is so terrible, how to deal with its threat has become a serious consideration for Musk and others.
P.S. Musk's thinking on artificial intelligence was largely influenced by Nick Bostrom, a pioneer of the human augmentation movement, co-founder of Humanityplus, and Oxford philosopher. Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the threats that artificial intelligence can pose, and readers interested in learning more about it can find them.
Nick Bostrom's thinking about superintelligence has also influenced Bill Gates, Hawking, and others, all of which can be found in public information channels.
The best way to defeat the dragon is to have the power of the dragon or beyond the dragon.
That's what Neuralink is about to do.
Humans can only become superintelligent in order to fight against the super artificial intelligence that may emerge. Humans become superintelligent, and they need to achieve it through the brain-computer interface path.
Only through the path of enhancement can human beings realize the path of free and autonomous survival and development for a long time in the future.
The fate of mankind should be decided by human beings (including the "post-human" or "superintelligence" that humans have transitioned to.
Human beings should not do the stupid thing of making wedding dresses for others.
Mankind will never be enslaved!
Source: Financial Highlights