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There is an interesting feature film from the field of science fiction (a kind of cool cyberpunk) Australian filmmaker Lee Wonnell – “Upgrade”, which shows the “upgrade people” who half already machines – semi-computer systems with all of them advantages (huge opportunities) and disadvantages (practically devoid of any human feelings and, most importantly, conscience).
This is what many startups and famous research teams in the world, that is, to create brain-computer, or simply put – the task is to connect the human brain and computer, thereby endowing the owner of such interface capabilities of a modern computer.
It is believed that the company was most successful in this business. Neuralink, created three years ago by the famous American billionaire and “space dreamers”, as he is often called, Ilon Mask.
The other day, Musk first spoke about the success of his team in creating a computer brain. That is, from today’s experiments on laboratory rats company Neuralink as early as next year should move on to implant unique devices in the brain person.
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The interface itself consists of a small chip that is connected to the thinnest sensor threads (many times thinner than a human hair), and those in turn will combine with neurons of the brain, due to which they can transmit signals to the brain, like the reverse process is carried out. Thanks to this, the biological brain can almost instantly exchange any information and any commands with a computer or some other superintelligent superstructure.
Today, people already have such a connection, say, with smartphone, computer, and so on, but it all happens with using analog interfaces (mouse, keyboard, etc.) and organs senses, while the brain-computer will allow this pair to work as a whole. The only way, says Musk, a person may not lag behind in their capabilities from artificial intelligence. Besides Moreover, such technology can restore human activity, say, with damage to the spine (exactly something like this is just shown in the movie “Upgrade”).
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On the other hand, this film perfectly demonstrates What can a person upgrade to a computer? If consider, that Elon Musk is really distinguished by irrepressible reverie and almost zero liability for the consequences of their projects (just remember his plans to send people to Mars, and his grandiose project for the production of electric vehicles “Tesla” as experts say, in the end, will bring down the global economy), then it can be assumed that, most likely, no good efforts and Neuralin’s success will not.
We don’t even know what the creation will lead to. half-humans half-robots
Time, of course, will show who is right, who is not, especially since new generations of upgraded people may well feel yourself even happy and pity to talk about how it used to be people lived without a computer brain. Just like the current generation doesn’t imagines how in the last century people dispensed with computers, mobile communications and so on.
At the same time, spiritual leaders claim that in a person initially everything is in place, that is, the ability to use a supercomputer The universe, the ability to telepathy, levitation, teleportation and so Further. And the man went on the path of creating “crutches” in the form of machines, phones and so on. And he continues to do what? Right, perfect these crutches. Many scientists say that these “crutches” of a person and kill. It is possible, but for more humanity is simply not capable yet …
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