Things Elon Musk faces when it comes to uploading human brains on the internet

Connecting the brain and computer will be the key, the assertion that humans outperform artificial intelligence.

Believe it or not and whether or not it is ready, the computer and the human brain communicate regularly in high-tech laboratories. Not only stopping there because after the process of connecting and practicing, the mechanical connection - people are becoming more and more closely. Example for applications of this link? Disabled people can now move their robotic limbs with just the power of their brains.

We are fantasizing about a future that controls cars (even spacecraft?) With just our thoughts, loading our brain onto a powerful computer system that is worthy of human ability and end. together, create a perfect hybrid-robot - a cyborg.

And you know what, Elon Musk has officially set foot in the race to this future. Tesla's CEO and SpaceX have just built Neuralink - a company that aims to link human minds and computers. Musk can develop self-driving cars, recyclable missiles but whether the distant dream of combining computers and brains can be done?

Tesla and SpaceX CEO - Elon Musk.

Neurological technology, first introduced by Jaques Vidal in the 1970s, raised the idea of ​​electroencephalography - the monitoring and recording of the brain through sensors placed on her scalp. people - can be used to create systems that allow people to control other objects and devices.

This idea involves using computer algorithms to turn brain electrical parameters into commands that machines can understand. From that point on, people began to be more interested in this new scientific aspect, and began to explore and research it.

Indeed, this "brain-computer" interface has given us revolutions in technology that helps people - allowing paralyzed people to gradually move their limbs and even, they still have can walk again. Over the past few years, large investments in this industry from the US and Europe have made such advanced technologies flourish. We are able to strengthen ourselves with mechanical technology.

We are able to strengthen ourselves with mechanical technology.

The combination of people and technology can even be stronger than artificial intelligence. For example, when we make a decision based on a combination of consciousness and reasoning, neurological technology will be able to enhance human awareness. Human reflexes are not bad, but we will be able to push that limit further with neural enhancement technology.

Those are just the scenarios we draw, in the future we can attach the brain to the machines. The current development process is ongoing but still at a slow pace. Electrical brain measurement and analysis machines are safe for people, but the records are all quite disturbing. Moreover, laboratories that study this issue mainly focus on how to analyze human brain function to make practical applications, but no actual product yet.

To overcome these harms, many large companies have announced that they will invest more in this brain-computer interface. Bryan Johnson from Kernel human intelligence company recently acquired KRS, a company that promises to open a data revolution to help us better understand neurodegenerative diseases. Meanwhile, Facebook is also recruiting more computer-brain interface engineers to support its Building 8 project.

Facebook is also recruiting more computer-brain interface engineers to help with its Building 8 project.

And Elon Musk's Neuralink company will be another research facility that set foot in this area.Their "nerve-connecting" technology will include the installation of additional electrodes to the brain to measure signals. This will allow us to get better and clearer neural signals than current electroencephalic technology, something that needs surgery to be possible.

This project is still very mysterious, although Musk has pledged to give more details soon. Last year, he said that a brain-computer interface existed to show that humans were above artificial intelligence.

This is an ambitious project, considering that our technology is still too limited. For example, the BCI pronunciation tool allows people to say words that appear on the computer screen by thought, but the speed is still extremely slow and obviously cannot match the normal communication speed.

Don't be sad to know the fact that uploading human thoughts to the brain is impossible with current technology.

What we really need now to make this technology possible is a technique that accurately and simply measures brain activity (no need for surgery).

Besides, we also need to better understand our own brain, to be able to encode human thoughts.

Don't be sad to know the fact that uploading human thoughts to the brain is impossible with current technology. There are even processes of brain processing, specifically processing memory capacity that are not fully understood. Perhaps it will take another 20 years to get a computer-brain interface.

But these big obstacles do not make Elon Musk approach this industry useless. A nerve bond can be used to study how the brain works or to treat neurological disorders. When combining nerve links with electrodes in the brain, we can "read" the activity of the brain, making analysis and research easier later.

Perhaps it will take another 20 years to get a computer-brain interface.

It does not mean that people are willing to attach an electrode to their brains - this is the moral obstacle we encounter. Most people did not want to have brain surgery, let alone "plug in" what additional equipment to use for scientific research.

This may slow down future development, but that is not the reason we stop believing. New concepts for this future are extremely important, opening new limits for people to reach. The neuro-tech industry only developed a few years after humans put it on the Moon - then the computer-brain interface was still considered a science of fiction.

In 1965, it was optimistic to say that by 2016, human intelligence will be able to be enhanced by drugs and by linking directly with computers. We may not have achieved that dream completely, but there is no lack of reason to let us believe.