Brain-computer interface technology is seen by Musk as a way for humans to achieve "immortality." At the same time, Neuralink, a brain-computer interface startup founded by Musk, raised a total of $205 million (about 1.3 billion yuan) in the C round of financing. This is the largest financing that has emerged of any company involved in brain-computer interfaces. It can be seen how much the capital market and Musk himself attach to this test.
Today's headline: "23 monkey experiments, 7 survived", in order to study the "brain machine", Musk's company was accused of monkey abuse. As soon as the news was reported, it occupied the front page of major news at home and abroad. Without letting us start thinking about what Musk calls "brain-computer interfaces", is it realistic?
Since the 1990s, brain-computer interfaces have begun to have staged results, such as the first pioneer of visual brain-computer interfaces was William Dobelle. His cortical visual brain-computer interface is mainly used in patients who are acquired and blind. In 1978, Dobelle implanted an array of 68 electrodes in the visual cortex of a blind male, Jerry, and successfully created photosigilations. In the nearly 50 years since then, the brain-computer interface has been used more than once in patients, and there have been phased results in the inter-brain interface of the "motor nerve prosthesis", the corticoenceal electroencephalogram, and the brain-computer interface of "light response imaging". Then capital poured into the super cake competing for the emerging market of brain-computer interfaces.
Inter-brain interface studies are able to treat multiple disabilities such as limb dysfunction, visual defects, hearing deficits and even treatments for depression and Parkinson's disease. For normal people, it can improve memory, learning ability, and in the era of interconnection of all things, it also provides the possibility for brain waves to control smart homes, computers, and mice.
Everything seems wonderful, but past experience tells us that nothing is perfect.
Ethical issues
1. The use of brain-computer, the installation of brain-computer ports can enhance the ability of all aspects, children of rich families can choose the best brain computer, children of vulnerable groups will no longer have the ability to compete, the gap between rich and poor is getting bigger and bigger, and class mobility is getting weaker and weaker.
2. Is it human or human? Mental control?
Security issues
1. In today's social big data is particularly important to every Internet company, and malicious excessive collection of user privacy data has become common. The brain installation of various indicators of the brain and the body may be leaked, and it will also give the criminals an opportunity to take advantage of it.
2. Whether the brain-computer port has an impact on physical health, whether the monkey died on a large scale in this exposed event, and whether the brain-computer port implantation will trigger the human immune mechanism. These remain to be examined.
3. Can the brain-computer port work stably in the body for a long time, maintenance problems after failure, equipment update and upgrade problems
Brain-computer interface is a relatively new field, and now many famous universities and technology companies are conducting research in this area, and I believe that in the near future, this technology will be able to overcome these problems, serve our lives, and help treat diseases!
I believe in the saying: "All science is born with doubt." "Brain-computer interfaces give us a lot of possibilities, like science fiction, the current problems will not stop the pace of science. Looking forward to the day when the brain-computer port arrives.
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