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Listen to the thunder in the silence!
It's not that I don't understand, the world is changing fast!
Just now, Musk announced that he has found a way to efficiently implement brain-computer interfaces. At the just-concluded press conference, Musk even could not suppress his excitement, and once laughed.
Yes, you read that right, two years after its founding, Neuralink, Musk's famous brain-computer interface research company, finally released its first product: a new technology for "posterior intubation".
Specifically, through a neurosurgical robot, it is safe and painless to perforate the head like minimally invasive eye surgery, quickly implant a chip into the brain, and then read the brain signal directly through the USB-C interface and can be controlled with an iPhone.
Musk's "brain-opening" approach can be divided into three steps:
1, skull puncture: Musk's new "hole puncher", you can use laser to drill holes in the skull, unlike the previous head hole, this method is minimally invasive, bloodless, safe!
Look, this is the punch musk uses, aka the "sewing machine." It's a neurosurgical robot capable of implanting six threads per minute. The whole process, especially like a sewing machine.
This "sewing machine" can implant a line that is only 1/4 the thickness of a human hair, and can avoid the brain blood vessels, avoiding inflammation and damage to the brain.
The picture above is what the "sewing machine" looks like at work: drilling holes in the skull with a laser and implanting wires and chips into your brain.
2, implanted chip: Musk has developed a custom chip, after implantation in the brain, can better read and amplify signals from the brain.
See, this is the chip that Musk injected into the brain, and it's smaller than the tip of a finger. The chip is implanted in four places: three of them in the area of motion and one in the area of feeling. The only external device is mounted behind the ear and contains a battery.
Now, Musk has experimented with mice, collecting information from brain neurons through the USB-C port in the head. It can read information from 1500 electrodes, which is 15 times better than existing systems embedded in the human body. See, this is how the probe device is successfully inserted:
3, eliciting signals: use a diameter of 4-6 microns, not even 1/10 of the hair, the brain signal read by the chip is transmitted!
These flexible wires are actually insulators made of cellophane-like materials, which contain a series of wires connecting tiny electrodes or sensors that look like a string of pearls.
Compared to other materials used in brain-computer interfaces, it is not only less damaging to the brain, but also transmits more data.
Now, Musk is testing on mice, with plans to achieve the first human test next year. The idea is to implant very small electronic devices into the brain, and then bring a wireless device to let the mind out and even interact with the iPhone app.
It will revolutionize the way humans interact with machines, and in turn change humans and society!
In the dense clouds, the thunder of technology is brewing and generating, and a storm is coming!
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Brain-computer interface, one of the most cutting-edge research areas. It studies the direct connection pathway established between the human or animal brain (and external devices) to translate consciousness in real time, and ultimately to freely transmit and download thoughts between humans and humans, between humans and machines.
As Musk's team showed, brain-computer interface technology is evolving day by day. We have begun to climb the four-tier pyramid of brain-computer interfaces, gradually "transforming" human beings and achieving evolution.
1. The first layer of the pyramid of the brain-computer interface, repair: through the mind to manipulate the machine, let the machine replace some functions of the human body, and repair the physiological defects of the disabled.
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.
After the realization of this technology, human beings can control external objects at will without talking, as long as they pass through their minds, and control objects with their intentions!
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 give a command in your heart, and the coffee machine will automatically heat your coffee.
If you are too lazy to do it, you can also control the mechanical arm to help you, and all 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. Come to think of it, that would be a great thing.
2, the second layer of the brain-computer interface pyramid, improvement: through the brain-computer interface, improve the operation of the brain, so that we always feel like we have just slept a good awakening, energetic, focused, quick thinking, able to 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.
In 2014, the American ABM company trained experimenters through the brain-computer interface of the EEG, which increased the learning speed of novices by 2.3 times compared with the original.
3, the third layer of the pyramid of the brain-computer interface, enhanced: through the brain-computer interface, let us 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.
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.
4, the fourth layer of the pyramid of brain-computer interface, 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.
Musk believes that the rise of super artificial intelligence is only a matter of time, and existing humans will inevitably be enslaved by them. In order to avoid tragedy, human beings have only one choice: to attack poison with poison, become AI themselves, and become a super human being.
The knowledge of the entire British Museum, in the future, may not take too long to enter a person's brain through brain-computer interaction. Through the brain-computer interface, a person can also become an omnipotent super Homo sapiens like Lucy in Superbody.
Consider this scene: it is likely that in the near future, the original human being may be as weak and vulnerable as a bed bug in the face of a super Homo sapiens.