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Do We Need Brain Implants to Keep Up with Robots?
« on: November 08, 2017, 02:21:26 pm »
Do We Need Brain Implants to Keep Up with Robots?

Neuroscientist Christof Koch calls for a “crash program” in brain technologies to make us smarter

    By John Horgan on November 1, 20172
 
Pundits have been fretting a lot lately about robots leaving humans behind, taking our jobs and possibly a lot more, as in The Matrix and Terminator films. Christof Koch, my go-to source for brain science for 25 years, has proposed a solution. To keep up with machines, we should boost our cognitive powers with brain implants.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/do-we-need-brain-implants-to-keep-up-with-robots/

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« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2017, 04:47:57 pm »
Cybernetics. Cyborgs are inevitable. 

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« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2017, 05:26:50 pm »


Why yes, yes we do!
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Re: Do We Need Brain Implants to Keep Up with Robots?
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2017, 04:47:32 am »
My dream for decades, Chummer.
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« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2017, 05:19:09 am »
Keep up with robots? I'll pass.....


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« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2017, 05:20:30 am »
You cannot delve very much into the subject of "brain science" on this forum.

It becomes emotional, not scientific

Like "climate change"

 
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Re: Do We Need Brain Implants to Keep Up with Robots?
« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2017, 05:23:35 am »
Some people need brain implants to keep up with other humans.

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« Reply #7 on: November 09, 2017, 02:28:26 pm »
You cannot delve very much into the subject of "brain science" on this forum.

It becomes emotional, not scientific

Like "climate change"

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« Reply #8 on: November 09, 2017, 05:42:55 pm »
As with all electronic devices, they will be hooked into the net eventually. We've already designed fighter jets that can be controlled by a pilots thoughts, it won't take long to reverse that in the other direction.

Think the NSA spies on you now? Just wait.

And that's just for starters. Watch the movie Limitless, and imagine what that kind of leap in intelligence would do in the hands of evil, predatory people.

It also start a chip arms race between the bad and good guys, with the people who can't afford to keep up caught like sheep in the middle.
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