If you were to ask what is one of the hottest topics in 2021? Probably the first thing that comes to mind is the emergence of the metaverse concept. This is also seen by many as a new money-making model.
Therefore, it is also speculated that the stock price is high.
But if we think rationally, will the metacosm really replace our real lives? What kind of impact will it have on us humans?
You believe that just by adding a chip to our brains, we can manipulate everything around us.
The concept seems to have been around in some sci-fi movies many years ago. But now it may actually be realized.
The model of brain implantation with chips is also called the highest level of the metaverse by foreign researchers. That is, the emergence of brain-computer interfaces.
Hello everyone, today we are going to talk about brain-computer interface. Let's analyze what impact the brain-computer interface will have on us humans, and what is the probability of its success? Still the old rule, like the attention arrangement, let's start today's topic.
One of Musk's monkeys is happily playing a game. At this time, it did not know that its current behavior could become the arrival of a new era for mankind.
With this monkey, humans are finally going to start working on our own brains.
On December 6, 2021, Musk personally said in an exclusive interview. In 2022, he will officially begin to implant chips for brain-computer interfaces into people's brains.
I hope that the first human brain-computer interface experiment in 2022 will be all the best. All participants suffered from severe spinal cord injuries. Symptoms of quadriplegia. Carry out the experiment smoothly, hoping to relieve their difficulties. This may be Musk's heartfelt words.
Now that we know what he thinks, what is the magic thing about the brain-computer interface he is talking about?
In 2021, Musk's company that studies brain-computer interface chips sent out such a video. The entire process of brain-computer interface is shown in the video. A monkey leisurely drinks a drink, happily plays a game, and manipulates the gamepad in his hand.
Before it played the game, scientists had implanted a chip of brain-computer interface into its brain. The magic of this chip is that it can be paired with our phones. Similar to the Bluetooth pairing we are most familiar with, the chip after pairing can clearly transmit the monkey's brain waves to the phone screen.
When pairing, the scientists' first step is to calibrate the chip with the monkey's brain.
After calibration, the brain-computer interface can not only observe the monkey's brain's thoughts, but also predict in advance what the monkey wants to do next.
Prediction is also a state-of-the-art step in the entire brain-computer interface experiment. If predictive technology can be realized, then the chip implanted in the brain is not only a passive high-tech product, but also can actively detect its host.
Maybe one day in the future, the monkey has the urge to do something bad, and we can program it in advance and electrocute it or other punishments before the impulse to do something bad is generated.
Putting it on our human body in this way may greatly reduce the crime rate of our human beings.
When the calibration process went smoothly, the game in front of the monkey began to be officially taken over by the chip of the brain-computer interface. When the line of the gamepad is disconnected, the game can still be controlled by the monkey, but at this time, the monkey is still foolishly moving the controller in his hand as before.
It thought the game was still the same as before, controlled by hand. But at this time, it can drink a drink while leisurely moving its own brain, you can play games, this is what Musk said brain-computer interface experiment.
The whole experimental process is nothing more than three steps. They are implantation, calibration and brain control.
In fact, there are experiments on brain-computer interfaces, and Musk is not the first, as early as 16 years ago in 2006. Humans have successfully implemented the implantation of brain-computer interfaces.
It was just that it wasn't a monkey who was involved in the experiment, but a foreign volunteer named Matthew. Like the monkey, he also controls the game in front of him through the chip of the brain-computer interface.
This is similar to the electric car produced by Musk, in fact, the electric car is not Musk's first. Tesla has become a new climax driving the electric vehicle industry. Musk can be said to have promoted the development of the entire electric vehicle industry.
In the future, although the implantation of brain-computer interface chips is not his first, it may also be pushed into a new era by Musk.
Elon Musk produces a brain-computer interface chip, which can not only pair mobile phones, computers, but also in the process of this experiment, a more important step is the participation of artificial intelligence. For example, he can accurately predict the volunteer's next behavior.
It is also possible to let a person who originally could not speak express his own ideas through the brain-computer interface, so as to achieve communication with others.
As early as 2021, when scientists conducted experiments on animals, they found that after the chip was implanted in the pig's brain, it could accurately predict the behavior of the pig.
After observing the predicted waveform graph, they found that the predicted bands and the bands of real behavior almost exactly matched.
The next step musk company's plan is to bring this brain-computer interface technology to the market and sell, so since it is to sell, install, maintain and after-sales has become the most concerned factor for consumers.
What exactly does the chip look like? Will there be any side effects after implantation in the brain? According to the scientists on the research team, the size of this chip is only the size of a coin. There are 1,024 neural electrodes embedded in it, and finally a robot called a sewing machine is accurately fed into the human brain.
And this chip can also achieve wireless charging. Most of our current phones can also implement this technology.
Imagine if our pillows were made into a wireless charger. Then every night when people sleep next to the pillow, the next day the chip will be full of power, and the whole person's brain will be full of energy. Also a good result.
But here I have to wonder, is Musk's medical technology also so developed? A chip the size of a coin put into a person's brain, does not cause a human brain infection?
But for now, the whole team is confident about human experiments.
Brain-computer interface technology in 2022 will be applied primarily to paralyzed patients. For example, those who cannot walk or whose arms cannot move, they can regain their mobility through brain-computer interface technology.
Second, in the interview, Musk also said that brain-computer interface technology is not limited to these. They will also continue to expand the capabilities of the chip. When it comes to the ability to expand, this gives us unlimited room for reverie. In the future, is it possible for us to really become Trisolarans?
Although these are only our hypotheses, according to Musk's planning flow chart, he really has these plans. He wanted to achieve telepathy between people within ten years. The communication between two people is no longer the previous language exchange, but the signal exchange.
If this plan is realized, then imagine what technology we have now is likely to be eliminated first?
That's the phone we use now.
Ten years from now, the phone will most likely be just a TV set in our hands, and everyone will use it to swipe the video or read some articles.
But as a trisolaran who can communicate with consciousness, there are also some awkward problems.
The biggest drawback is that there seems to be no lies between people. What the other party thinks can be perceived in advance.
Within 20 years, Musk's team plans to realize that all the nervous systems of the brain can communicate with the outside world. That's what he calls a whole-brain interface.
By that time, all the modern facilities around us will probably all be obsolete. Listening to music no longer uses headphones, stereos, watches TV, no longer uses the TV.
Because we all know that everything around us now, including the floral scent you smell, the images you see, the music that your ears hear. After receiving the signal by these nose, eye and ear sensory systems, they are finally transmitted to the brain by the way of electrical signals, and the brain finally processes the feedback uniformly.
If a whole-brain interface can be implemented, then we humans only need to receive electrical signals, and all of our sensory systems will be a meaningless ornament.
If he continues to develop along this line of thinking, is it possible that 30 years from now? We really become the brains in the vat that we mentioned earlier.
The Brain in the Cylinder was first proposed by Hilary Putnam.
The general meaning is to take out the human brain, then soak it in a nutrient solution, and finally connect the human brain to the computer through specific high-tech means.
Through the computer to continuously transmit electrical signals to certain specific areas of the brain, after stimulation, the brain will continue to receive external messages. Like living in a virtual world, and the brain that is now soaked in nutrient solution, he cannot distinguish whether the world he exists is a virtual world or a real world.
So with that said, let's reflect on ourselves. Will we be such a brain in the vat now?
Is it possible that we have already been soaked in nutrient solution by higher beings? And everything around us is an illusory scene.
Why do you feel these topics, the more you say the more outrageous. Whether Musk's plan can be realized, I personally feel that the most important thing at present is to solve the Tesla brake problem first.
Scientific development is not a pie. Achieving every technological breakthrough is an extremely difficult thing to do. Perhaps these ideas he put forward can be realized in the future. But that could also be 1,000 years later.
Well, this issue of the topic is here, what do you think about Musk's brain-computer interface? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area to discuss, we will meet again in the next issue.