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I have worked in the field for 8 years before. This technology is far too immature to be useful beyond medical application. One day it might be used for reading
by yoz-y 7y ago
I have worked in the field for 8 years before. This technology is far too immature to be useful beyond medical application. One day it might be used for reading or writing thoughts, but I am quite convinced that this is decades away. But really useful prosthetics are in our reach and such technology could transform many lives for the better.
- sametmax 7y agoIn hyperion, the AI are very useful to the general population... Safety nets should be placed now, not as an afterthough.
- yoz-y 7y ago> In hyperion, the AI are very useful to the general population... Yes, but there is also a large gap between a general purpose AI capable of generating teleportation portals and a device barely capable of discerning electronic noise from the brain signals. > Safety nets should be placed now, not as an afterthough. I agree. However: 1. Many of people working on this do read a lot of SF. 2. Initial motivation for BCIs is to bring the dream of being able to walk/talk/interact with the world to people who were deprived from it. 3. The whole purpose of non invasive interfaces is to not need to jack anything in. This is important mainly because there are prohibitive safety nets around anything that goes inside a person's body. Especially in this case do not overestimate the usefulness of reading brain waves. For example, in absence of disease, it is currently impossible to identify people using their EEG. This being said, I am somewhat concerned about the writing part, mostly because I have seen experimental protocols which seemed to hand wave quite a lot of potential issues.