July 18, 2019, 10:48 PM ET
Elon Musk now wants to hook your brain up to AI with Neuralink
By Elizabeth Rayne
Cyborgs are supposed to be something that exists in another realm—as in, science fiction. Then you have Elon Musk and his brainchild Neuralink.
Musk just revealed his latest plans for the company, which he created to revolutionize the way we treat neurological diseases and, eventually, give the human brain an assist with advanced technology. The space and tech mogul is now aspiring to go even further and create a full brain-machine interface that will merge our brains with AI. If we can’t keep up with artificial intelligence, we might as well become it, right?
Oh, and human trials for the first phase are supposed to start next year.
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/elon-musk-neuralink
Mezvinsky serves on the board[19] of the Pembroke College Foundation and the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, an organization dedicated to transforming the future of medicine through collaboration and patient-centered research.[20
Elon Musk is Bringing Telepathy and Superhuman Vision to the Masses đź§
Analyzing Neuralink.
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“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen” — Lenin.
Watching Elon Musk’s live-streamed Neuralink demo felt like bearing witness to a leap in human evolution, on a level even beyond the creation of language 50,000 years ago. We’re finally entering a crazy SciFi world — one where you can save memories for later, have a built-in heads-up display and super-human vision, feel no suffering, and telepathically communicate.
The Demo
The current form of Neuralink, version 0.9, was shown in a “three little pigs” demo, where one pig (Joyce) did not have a Neuralink implant, another (Gertrude) had an invisible implant for 2 months — and counting — and the third (Dorothy) previously had an implant, which was removed to demonstrate reversibility. A fourth pig was shown to demonstrate dual Neuralink implants (with two more such pigs presumably in the back of the pen). All the pigs were healthy, happy, and indistinguishable from normal pigs.
As the handlers fed Gertrude, we could hear beeps and see a live chart on a display, which Elon explained represented real-time signals from Gertrude’s implant. When her snout senses something, it sends out neuronal spikes that are picked up by the implant’s 1,024 electrodes.
Further, on video, we saw one of the pigs on a treadmill, alongside a moving graph, showing where Neuralink took readings from the pig’s neurons and predicted the positions of its joints, on top of the actual measured positions of its joints — which were almost exactly aligned.
https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/elon-musk-is-bringing-telepathy-and-superhuman-vision-to-the-masses-65896045fa43
"IV. “We kill people based on metadata”
Even as Zuckerberg was touting Facebook Inc.’s new commitment to privacy in 2019, he didn’t mention that his company was apparently sharing more of its WhatsApp users’ metadata than ever with the parent company — and with law enforcement.
To the lay ear, the term “metadata” can sound abstract, a word that evokes the intersection of literary criticism and statistics. To use an old, pre-digital analogy, metadata is the equivalent of what’s written on the outside of an envelope — the names and addresses of the sender and recipient and the postmark reflecting where and when it was mailed — while the “content” is what’s written on the letter sealed inside the envelope. So it is with WhatsApp messages: The content is protected, but the envelope reveals a multitude of telling details (as noted: time stamps, phone numbers and much more).
Those in the information and intelligence fields understand how crucial this information can be. It was metadata, after all, that the National Security Agency was gathering about millions of Americans not suspected of a crime, prompting a global outcry when it was exposed in 2013 by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
now zuck has all user data, FB can transform users into their virtual selves, unmasking the metadata linking to each user. mask the individual's body, unmask the users' metadata.. "
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/zuckerberg-facebook-reading-private-whatsapp-messages/