Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to boost the brain to keep up with AI

Re:Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to boost the brain to keep up... by hprotagonist on Monday March 27, 2017 @08:43PM (#13973042)

I worked on some locked-in stuff. There was recently a bit of a furor when a researcher snuck off to venezuela and had an electrode array implanted in his own brain: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/543246/to-study-the-brain.... It, um. didn't go over well in the research community.

We had tried external BCI for locked-in patients based on visually evoked potentials -- thought being that even if you lose the ability to move your eyes you can still steer an on-screen keyboard. EEG is so noisy, though, that it doesn't work unless the patient's looking at the target directly; ie, they can move their eyes. In which case, you should use an eye-tracker because it's $90 and 10 times faster.

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Re:Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to boost the brain to keep up... by ExactoKnight on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @05:01AM (#13975126)

How did it not go over well?! When you hear other researchers attack the work this guy is doing, you begin to suspect more of them are politicians looking to protect their own grants than actual scientists looking to make bold advancements themselves.

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