Will our brains soon have internet access? Musk to make big Neuralink reveal this week.

[ChrisV]

The firm, which aims to develop “ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers,” announced Thursday plans to host an event in San Francisco on the evening of July 16.

The event’s announcement sparked elation among the account’s 39,000 followers. One follower, called “Derik,” referred to it as “the greatest leap in human evolution.”

Musk has regularly spoken about the need to create a brain-computer interface to stop the growth of super-smart A.I. In September 2016, Musk stated that a “human-A.I. symbiote” would help “democratize” A.I. and take power away from an “evil dictator” machine. Basically, to avoid artificial intelligence taking over, humans will have to merge with artificial intelligence:

I think if we can effectively merge with A.I. by improving the neural link between your cortex and your digital extension of yourself, which already, like I said, already exists, just has a bandwidth issue. And then effectively you become an A.I.-human symbiote. And if that then is widespread, with anyone who wants it can have it, then we solve the control problem as well, we don’t have to worry about some evil dictator A.I. because we are the A.I. collectively.

Neuralink: Elon Musk’s Elusive Brain-Computer Firm Just Made a Big Reveal

The secretive firm is almost ready for launch.

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[Timmy C]

I heard about this a while back.

It will be interesting to see what happens!

 

[Anakalypsi]

Thanks for sharing!

I was anticipating that promised announcement for a long time. Probably since he was on JRE Podcast or maybe even further back since reading in this brilliant blog post about it for the first time: https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html

 

[Matt Sun]

Oh yeah so i don't have any privacy on my phone/computer.

So let's have no privacy in my brain also.

What could go wrong ?

 

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[Anakalypsi]

Oh yeah so i don't have any privacy on my phone/computer.

So let's have no privacy in my brain also.

What could go wrong ?

Literally everything.

But that's what humans do. We live in truly interesting and unpredictable times.

I remember reading that humans were stressed out when the telegraph was invented and information moved quicker from town to town.

I for myself try to enjoy the show. Nobody surely knows what the future will bring.

 

[Womat]

I for myself try to enjoy the show. Nobody surely knows what the future will bring.

Very healthy approach IMO.

 

[Blackadder]

I’m less interested in this for computing but a neural interface for prosthetics would be amazing.

 

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[ChrisV]

Well I think the point of this is to eventually just give our brains access to unlimited information. It will be combined with AI to make us superhuman. Sounds science-fictionny, but Musk is nuts enough to do it.

He spoke about what it will do on Rogan's show:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5pgAM26wuM

 

[SD Entrepreneur]

One day we'll look back and say, "Remember how we had to pull out our phone to look something up!?"

I believe something like this is imminent, not sure the implications but seems like we're turning into computerized robots!

 

[socaldude]

Pretty cool stuff.

Very plausible stuff but I've read some books on AI and it seems the biggest issue is always the physical infrastructure of technology. We don't know how create something that would interact with it's environment intelligently. Or at least not even close to human like intelligence. The biggest issue being visual perception.

Shows just how forward looking and a visionary Elon is. But I think this is not even close to being a reality.

I think the key would be mixing some biology in there as a hunk of metal robot is not enough to mimic intelligence.

 

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[ChrisV]

One day we'll look back and say, "Remember how we had to pull out our phone to look something up!?"

I believe something like this is imminent, not sure the implications but seems like we're turning into computerized robots!

We're going to be grandparents telling our kids in the classic grandpa voice.. "back when i was your age, we knew what real work was. When we wanted an answer off Google, we had to work for it. None of this newfangled AI cortex stuff!"

 

[Deleted50669]

Mine sure as hell wont. At least as long as I'm allowed not to. It'll start as a benevolent attempt to enhance our information processing speeds. It will end with the highest bidder (Amazon) buying it to optimize advertising strategy based on human data streams.

 

[ChrisV]

I don't know why people get all pissy about personalized advertising. I actually reduces the amount of ads you have to see by like 90%. When ads aren't targeted you have to watch 300 bullshit ads for Tampons and Bounty Paper Towels and Geico because they just have to throw shit at the wall and see what sticks. F*ck it.. scan my brainwaves and see what products I'd like. I ain't scurred.

 

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[ChrisV]

5 minutes till the announcement guys... i'm curious

can't wait to have ads delivered straight to my prefrontal cortex!

 

[ChrisV]

Sorry for triple posting, but wanted to bump with the livefeed:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-vbh3t7WVI

 

[rblitz]

Sorry for triple posting, but wanted to bump with the livefeed:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-vbh3t7WVI

If only the stream would starting.

 

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[ChrisV]

This announcement is F*cking insane. I'm way impressed. If he succeeds at this, this may be the most important Press Conference in history. We're going to be telling your kids "yep, I watched that Press Conference while it was happening." I might apply for a job with them. I would love working on this project.

 

[PizzaOnTheRoof]

Great article from Wait But Why:

https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html

 

[Bertram]

I’m less interested in this for computing but a neural interface for prosthetics would be amazing.

The original, first machine-brain interface, epic research from 1997-2006.

Here is the grandfather of brain-machine interface and the science of neural plasticity, Paul Bach-y-Rita. He used unfiltered peripheral neural pathways for "sensory substitution" for an impaired or absent sensory system, so that a blind man coneuld see and a paralyzed woman could dance.

Stephen Kercel, retired Oak Ridge Labs engineer, designed the technology.

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z36LxkWt0Dk

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IQrxj82EIBs

 

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[Deleted50669]

Great article from Wait But Why:

https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html

The sponge graphic was the highlight of the article.

 

[Anakalypsi]

This announcement is F*cking insane. I'm way impressed. If he succeeds at this, this may be the most important Press Conference in history. We're going to be telling your kids "yep, I watched that Press Conference while it was happening." I might apply for a job with them. I would love working on this project.

Totally understandable! And if you can apply why not? I'd love to but wouldn't be able to move there.


It's amazing what is possible when you put the right people together!

These results are easily 100x better than what is around and just thinking about how much better these algorithms will get when they can start with this amount of probes is mindblowing!

And also it is so well thought out with it being wireless, using it outside of a clinique, etc...

Musk has done it again! As he did with SpaceX, where he distributed the aerospace field by just rethinking and starting from fundamentals to reduce the cost by great orders of magnitude, he now is doing the same in the neuroscience field.

Only this time the applications are as exciting as scary at the same time...

 

[ChrisV]

Totally understandable! And if you can apply why not? I'd love to but wouldn't be able to move there.


It's amazing what is possible when you put the right people together!

These results are easily 100x better than what is around and just thinking about how much better these algorithms will get when they can start with this amount of probes is mindblowing!

And also it is so well thought out with it being wireless, using it outside of a clinique, etc...

Musk has done it again! As he did with SpaceX, where he distributed the aerospace field by just rethinking and starting from fundamentals to reduce the cost by great orders of magnitude, he now is doing the same in the neuroscience field.

Only this time the applications are as exciting as scary at the same time...

Well I wonder if you would have to move there. It seems like they really want talent, so maybe they'll allow you to work remotely.

I posted the presentation and a shortened version here:

Watch Musk's Fascinating Neuralink presentation. First prototype of a Brain Computing Interface

Here's the shortened version (which I think is a very good overview) View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA77zsJ31nA Watch the Full version here: View: https://youtu.be/r-vbh3t7WVI?t=5401 If you're not familiar with Neuralink, his description on Joe Rogan Last year: View...

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[ChrisV]

Great article from Wait But Why:

https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html

I love this article so much. When the caveman started saying "Rock" i was almost brought to emotional tears.

I love this opening scene from 2001: A space oddest, which was similar:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypEaGQb6dJk

One of the greatest scenes in cinematic history, imo.

 

[PizzaOnTheRoof]

People don't realize how BIG this is going to be.

It took Apple over 40 years to become a trillion-dollar company...

If they can pull this off, I think Nuralink will hit the trillion-dollar mark within 10 years of launching their MVP. They will also be the first to create a true general AI.

The effects of this technology will touch every human in every industry on every continent.

They'll make Facebook look like a toy for children.

 

[ChrisV]

People don't realize how BIG this is going to be.

It took Apple over 40 years to become a trillion-dollar company...

If they can pull this off, I think Nuralink will hit the trillion-dollar mark within 10 years of launching their MVP. They will also be the first to create a true general AI.

The effects of this technology will touch every human in every industry on every continent.

Oh the ramifications of this will be like nothing the world has ever seen. We can't even imagine. In the article you posted they spoke about how huge of an impact language and information had on humanity, but I still don't even think they did it justice. As a result of that information exchange we sparked the Agricultural and especially the Industrial revolution. What were the actual effects?

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You don't have to check out the video (although it's incredible too,) but even just the data I provided. It's mind boggling what this will accomplish. Neuralink is just the start. But Neuralink will act as a springboard for even greater human innovation, the same way the Gutenberg press did.

 

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[PizzaOnTheRoof]

Oh the ramifications of this will be like nothing the world has ever seen. We can't even imagine. In the article you posted they spoke about how huge of an impact language and information had on humanity, but I still don't even think they did it justice. As a result of that information exchange we sparked the Agricultural and especially the Industrial revolution. What were the actual effects?

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This was one of the most life changing talks I've ever seen. I think it should be required viewing for any Fastlane Entrepreneurs. Most people (even fastlaners) don't have an idea as to the shear magnitude of how utter miraculous capitalism is. I was always a believer of Capitalism, but when you...

www.thefastlaneforum.com

You don't have to check out the video (although it's incredible too,) but even just the data I provided. It's mind boggling what this will accomplish. Neuralink is just the start. But Neuralink will act as a springboard for even greater human innovation, the same way the Gutenberg press did.

Absolutely agree 100%.

This will dwarf even the agricultural and industrial revolutions.

AI, artificial life, planetary colonization, etc. are all coming in the next 100 years.

We're moving from changing our environments (ag/ind revs) to changing our very biology and life itself.