Post by Ryanruff13 on Jul 30, 2019 17:49:47 GMT -5
A mindless stroll through my Facebook feed (or through Google News — I forgot) resulted in this:
www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/30/neuroscientists-decode-brain-speech-signals-into-actual-sentences
And let's not forget Elon Musk and his recent announcement under Neuralink about progress towards artifical intelligence-brain connectivity.
Considering my recent interest in neurotechnology, I found this simply amazing. It's been a dream of mine to see technology that could realize people's thoughts in a tangible format for longer than I could remember. No doubt that there are going to be a plethora of extremely important applications to the use of such brain scanning, such as the ability to communicate with disabled/paralyzed patients.
On the other hand, let's allow ourselves to address theElephante elephant in the room: how such technologies can be misused. For example, the ability for people to read your thoughts, potentially against your will, is a very sobering (and rapidly approaching) reality. Nevermind the fierce legal and ethics debates and the difficulty of introducing legislation to control the technology's use.
This is just the tip of my iceberg with my thoughts on the matter, and I'll update this thread with more of those thoughts later, but I wanted to create a quick, extremely short thread to gauge your thoughts on this. Seeing as the advancement and proliferation of neurotechnology is — let's face it — inevitable, what are your thoughts on how we can prepare for it?
www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/30/neuroscientists-decode-brain-speech-signals-into-actual-sentences
And let's not forget Elon Musk and his recent announcement under Neuralink about progress towards artifical intelligence-brain connectivity.
Considering my recent interest in neurotechnology, I found this simply amazing. It's been a dream of mine to see technology that could realize people's thoughts in a tangible format for longer than I could remember. No doubt that there are going to be a plethora of extremely important applications to the use of such brain scanning, such as the ability to communicate with disabled/paralyzed patients.
On the other hand, let's allow ourselves to address the
This is just the tip of my iceberg with my thoughts on the matter, and I'll update this thread with more of those thoughts later, but I wanted to create a quick, extremely short thread to gauge your thoughts on this. Seeing as the advancement and proliferation of neurotechnology is — let's face it — inevitable, what are your thoughts on how we can prepare for it?