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limaCAT
Dec 22, 2007

il pistone e male
Slippery Tilde
This thing is not gonna backfire at all.

quote:

Neuralink, Elon Musk's fourth and least visible company, will become a bit less secretive Tuesday with a livestreamed presentation about its technology to connect computers directly to human brains. Neuralink accepted applications from some folks to attend the San Francisco event to hear "a bit about what we've been working on the last two years," but the rest of us can tune in online at 8 p.m. PT Tuesday.

"Livestream details will be available on our website shortly before event start," Neuralink tweeted Sunday.

Neuralink, founded in 2016, is working on a way to let human brains communicate directly with computers. Goals include fast transfer rates and quick responses, but just establishing a connection and figuring out how to exchange useful information presents immense challenges.

One possible approach involves an array of flexible probes inserted into the brain with a system resembling a sewing machine, an idea described by researchers reportedly associated with Neuralink. That's a lot cruder than the organically grown nanotechnological neural laces you'll find inside the brains of sci-fi characters, but it's remarkable that the technology is even under discussion.

Musk founded the company in an effort to give humans a performance edge as we cope with the arrival of artificial intelligence -- a technology he views as an existential threat to the race. The challenges are immense, though, when it comes to developing the technology, making it practical and affordable, and convincing people it's safe and desirable.

Pause for a moment and ponder the idea of "consensual telepathy," because if you can communicate directly with a computer, that computer can directly communicate with somebody else's brain-linked machine.

:rolleyes:

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In an era dominated by tech giants that have succeeded through computing hardware, software and services, Musk stands out as an entrepreneur who's got a knack for other parts of the physical world -- things like electricity, rocks and gravity.

Musk is pretty busy. He's got Tesla, which makes electric cars and trucks, massive electric power storage batteries and solar roofs. He's got SpaceX, which is launching satellites -- including its own set for providing internet service -- and is working on rockets to get people to orbit, Mars and the other side of Earth. Then there's the Boring Company, which is trying to create tunnels to relieve automobile congestion on ordinary roads.

Neuralink brings the squishier, immensely complicated realm of biology into Musk's purview. Human brains are famously hard to understand, though computer scientists at companies like Facebook and Google are progressing rapidly at emulating some of how they work through technology called neural networks, the most practical and promising foundation for today's artificial intelligence work. One of the most useful aspects of that research is getting computers to understand humans better by processing human speech.

How Neuralink will progress is unclear, but certainly a lot of us would welcome a replacement to keyboards. For a look at the broader implications, a good starting point is the 2017 Wait But Why exploration written with Musk's input.

Neuralink couldn't be reached for comment.

First published July 12.
Update, July 15: Adds details about the event's livestream.

I like the idea of low orbit satellites more.

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immortalyawn
May 28, 2013

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
This could potentially be a fantastic way to remove all the nerds and turds from the general online and the flesh world.

All stitched in to a cerebral heroin needle until they starve.

limaCAT
Dec 22, 2007

il pistone e male
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Actually the idea of shitposting on SA and pissing off mods without having to go through the terrible user experience of a qwerty keyboard is awesome.

Johnny Mnemonic but he is into ponies.
The night we burned chrome and installed brave browser.
Neurobromancer.
Count zero karma.
Mona Lowtax overdrive.

limaCAT
Dec 22, 2007

il pistone e male
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immortalyawn posted:

This could potentially be a fantastic way to remove all the nerds and turds from the flesh world.

Connecting them to pornhub 24/7 with high speed broadband did not help why should this?

Necros
Jul 23, 2003

Not sure I trust the guy who can't reliably make cars that don't burst into flames with access to my cerebrum.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

GBS can be as cynical as they want, but the truth is that anime is real now.

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Necros posted:

Not sure I trust the guy who can't reliably make cars that don't burst into flames with access to my cerebrum.

let these interns jab needles in your brain pussy

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

The Protagonist posted:

let these interns jab needles in your brain pussy
This intern's technique... incredible! 1000 perfectly refined needle jabs in less than a minute, and each one carefully aimed to avoid hitting the one place they need to be! I've never seen anything like it!

Your Moms Ahegao
Sep 3, 2008

FactsAreUseless posted:

GBS can be as cynical as they want, but the truth is that anime is real now.

It always was friend, it always was.....

Icochet
Mar 18, 2008

I have a very small TV. Don't make fun of it! Please don't shame it like that~

Grimey Drawer
Needles in the brain? Did they even try the rear end first? Let me play Civ4 with a buttplug controller and you can have my money Elon you stupid gently caress

limaCAT
Dec 22, 2007

il pistone e male
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FactsAreUseless posted:

This intern's technique... incredible! 1000 perfectly refined needle jabs in less than a minute, and each one carefully aimed to avoid hitting the one place they need to be! I've never seen anything like it!

"For the 100th times wash your hands and put on gloves before applying the needles , it's the third test human we lose because you guys keep eating cheetos before doing surgery and not wash your hands properly"

"From now on if you lose another test subject you and your team will be the next in line to take the operation as test subjects"

"Subject sued us, he did not like that a contractor installed a monero miner in his brain"

"Due to spotty satellite reception, we need to actually put our test subjects inside the Trucks Fleet instead of making them drive trucks from hour headquarters. Unfortunately this mean one test subject per truck and needing to let them stop for the night according to regulation in different states"

"No security incidents but Pizzas have arrived for everyone in the building, we are baffled by Director's generosity since he is away on a business trip"

"Director is still angry for the incident that caused his credit card be used for buying pizza to everyone in the building the other day. We are still investingating how it could happen but every security log vanished"

"Director wants to talk to all of us, meeting is scheduled in the posh basement meeting room. There will not be pizza, unfortunately"

"Subjects surreptitiously accessed the security subsystem of the labs and locked us all in. We advise to review security protocolos and the firewalling between subjectnet and the rest of the corporate lan once the situation returns to normal."

"From our tiny window in this office in the basement we can see that trucks from amazon are dropping parcels at the front of the building. Still we haven't found a way to get out of this room and bypassing the armed robot guard"

limaCAT
Dec 22, 2007

il pistone e male
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Icochet posted:

Needles in the brain? Did they even try the rear end first? Let me play Civ4 with a buttplug controller and you can have my money Elon you stupid gently caress

They want to be able to deliver an IRL nerve stapling if you want to play Alpha Centauri every time you lose a unit, duh.

Mooey Cow
Jan 27, 2018

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Pillbug
Can't wait to let a sewing machine go to town on my brain.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Can't wait to live out the lives of every character in a crusader kings 2 game

Blurry Gray Thing
Jun 3, 2009
I am ready to cast aside my meat-body to live in the computer as a half-vampire elf.

Icochet
Mar 18, 2008

I have a very small TV. Don't make fun of it! Please don't shame it like that~

Grimey Drawer

Blurry Gray Thing posted:

I am ready to cast aside my meat-body to live in the computer as a half-vampire elf.

Who has that kind of money? We're definitely gonna be orcs and goblins and the rich will hunt us.

Good Ol Filbert
Jun 10, 2019

Please connect my brain to a Korean news animation world.

I. M. Gei
Jun 26, 2005

CHIEFS

BITCH



Blurry Gray Thing posted:

I am ready to cast aside my meat-body to live in the computer as a half-vampire elf.

hell, same

Blurry Gray Thing
Jun 3, 2009

Icochet posted:

Who has that kind of money? We're definitely gonna be orcs and goblins and the rich will hunt us.

imo, Mr. Musk knows what the public wants, so Big Titty Goth Vampire Elves will be in the initial release, and Goblins will be the paid DLC. We know the completionists will buy all of them anyway.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Tesla Autopilot is people! But none of them have ever driven a car and also it turns out that putting your brain in a jar causes severe brain damage :hellyeah:

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

How don't care HOW big those anime tits are or HOW fast they can get streamed into my brain.

I'm not having a jack sewn into my brain so that an always on internet connection can beam pop up adds into my mind 24/7 while I sleep and record my constant thoughts about sex and wondering if this thing I'm looking at is safe to eat. I type 90% of that in already I don't need that last vestiges of my private humanity stripped away.
I realize this makes me sound old I guess, but sadly I actually mean it :/

sweet thursday
Sep 16, 2012

If they wanted you to test it and said "You will be hooked up to the Internet neurally. You will be able to have all the sex with camgirls and anime girls. But there is an x% chance it will completely fry your brain."

How low would x have to be before you did it?

100 HOGS AGREE
Oct 13, 2007
Grimey Drawer
I ain't gonna let elon musk give me beefbrain

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Just fry the brain no need for anime

Nastyman
Jul 11, 2007

There they sit
at the foot of the mountain
Taking hits
of the sacred smoke
Fire rips at their lungs
Holy mountain take us away
I'm gonna build a machine to send Arnold Schwarzenegger back in time to kill Elon Musk before he is born.

SleepySonata
Mar 3, 2010
So when do we get Cybill?

Nerses IV
May 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
Not gonna lie if they do invent virtual reality MMOs my life as I know it is most likely over

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

The VR future is going to look a ton like the largely-forgotten YA novel "Space Demons."

Nerses IV
May 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
Like yeah kayaking to see the swallow tail kite migration is cool and all but I could be at home literally fighting a dragon sooooo...

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.
Anime has always been real though :smug:

E: Somebody already made this joke in a previous post :argh:

And for that matter, a previous thread, too...

guestimate
Nov 10, 2011

Maybe it's real for some of you
But afaik its cartoons with big eyes and tits?
Who cares :shrug:

Nerses IV
May 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

guestimate posted:

Maybe it's real for some of you
But afaik its cartoons with big eyes and tits?
Who cares :shrug:

I'm not sure if you realize this but actual girls are full of literal human poo poo, just saying

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

FactsAreUseless posted:

GBS can be as cynical as they want, but the truth is that anime is real now.

Should have known you were in the beta group.

cardiacarrest123
Apr 10, 2016
“ my god.. it’s full of anime.. they should have sent a HHHRRRNTGHH”

*slumps over with smoke billowing from ears/dickhole*

Donovan Trip
Jan 6, 2007
Just a year ago Elon Musks hyper tunnel became a regular car tunnel so I'm excited to see what this nonsense ends up being reduced to

Nigmaetcetera
Nov 17, 2004

borkborkborkmorkmorkmork-gabbalooins
I don't see them mention anime anywhere in there. It just sounds like useful technology to aid the paralyzed. You know, hook their brain up to a computer, hook the computer up to a wheelchair and voice synthesizer. That being said, if you weren't already profoundly paralyzed you'd have to be a moron to volunteer for this.

Icochet
Mar 18, 2008

I have a very small TV. Don't make fun of it! Please don't shame it like that~

Grimey Drawer
The tragedy is that paralyzed people can't raise their hand and thus can't volunteer for anything

Nigmaetcetera
Nov 17, 2004

borkborkborkmorkmorkmork-gabbalooins

Icochet posted:

The tragedy is that paralyzed people can't raise their hand and thus can't volunteer for anything

Some of 'em can blink.

Icochet
Mar 18, 2008

I have a very small TV. Don't make fun of it! Please don't shame it like that~

Grimey Drawer
Yeah the fakers

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Richter Scabies
Dec 30, 2012

Elon Musk will make Deadelus Encounter real

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