Researchers devise neural implant that learns over time
By Darren Murph 
posted June 25th 2008 9:48AM
posted June 25th 2008 9:48AM
[Via Physorg]
posted June 25th 2008 9:48AM
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I'd be in favor of this if it helped guys score with chicks.
The computer scans the woman's body expressions and then automatically activates your vocal chords to say the most likely thing to peak the woman's interests.
"would you by any chance be a fan of Aurora Monticello's works?"
WHY YES I AM...YOU LOVE MONTICELLO TOO? LETS GO HAVE SOME SEX.
I was going to comment on this article, but my brain implant is not working.
Well doesn't this introduce a slippery slope? Human automation, now just think of what happens when the thing goes haywire or better yet somebody figures out a way to hack into it. I can see it now, somebody is going to use the defense of, "I didn't do it, my neural implant controlled prosthetic did!"
Kinda reminds ya off spiderman 2 with Doc Oct...without all the dashboard confessional emoness.
"When I came home, there was a man in my house. I fought with this man. He had a neural implant controlled mechanical arm. You find this man. You find this man."
your saying a one armed man broke into your house and killed your wife? RRRRRIIIIIIIGGGGGHHHHHHTTTTT :)
Dr. Octopus?
how true
Nice, school will be a breeze when you can tell your brain to access the internet and tell you the answers!
Wouldn't that be a kick, having this and STILL going to school!
Nah, you'd get caught when all your nouns are blue and underlined.
Yar clothes. Gieb them to me. NOW.
I see what you did there!
Some parasites do the same to humans or animals, they change the behaviour, but only to their profit.
I do not want that shit in my brain. My brain is a chemical and eletrical controlling organ. I like the way i am, even with my flaws. I hope braintech only gets implemented for example hibernation. It would be usefull for astronauts.
And than again think about the impact all this tech will have on humans.
They wil become even more depening on tech.
The social structure would be disturbed because people wil live way longer.
All this could tear humans society apart, certainly at the level we are at now.
Its the same with weapons, the weapons are good, but the humans are way not ready.
humans have to take a chance and adopt technology into our lives or else we could only advance so little.... by some mistakes we make, if we are smart enough, we will correct and prevent future problems and advance further
Living forever or for a really long time would be awesome.
"My CPU is a neural net processor, a learning computer. The more contact I have with humans, the more I learn."
I don't think I'd learn much, if that was the case.
Do I get paid more?
This is a nice improvement, not only for medicine but it's another step towards building a smarter robot that uses A.I. more, well, intelligently.
The advances in robotics are quite impressive this days - from dancing, voice-recognition, playing air hockey, etc. Here's an article about "downloading robot personalities" that I found interesting: http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=526&doc_id=155718&f_src=flffour
Ghost in the Shell anyone? The difference between this and a "cyber-brain" is just out of out reach.
So clearly we need personal firewalls in our heads along with these implants.
I hope you all never lose the ability to move a limb. This is exciting news for those of us down to 1 hand because of a neuroogical event.
Slippery slope? Yes. Reminiscent of the Terminator? Definitely. Exciting? Undoubtedly.
My brain: a 486DX2.
This thing: a 487.
My new ability: I can do spreadsheets a little faster.
Me: Hal, open the air lock!
Hal: Part of me wants to. I'm confused.
This is very interesting - the backbone of this has existed for ages now (it screams of edelman's darwin 3) But what is incredible is that neural networking is not only taking place on a chip (which has been done) but in conjunction with physiological feedback; mirroring the anatomical process. what would be truly amazing is if it determines accuracy of movement by touch/ propaception (sp?) nerves of the limb itself. Imagine two "neural network hubs" that were installed in the motor cortex and the spinal cord (below the point of SCI) That searched out connections to as many dendrites as possible and formed links to monitor synapse firings. Drop the patient in the pool, and map first which neurons fire thinking of a movement, then test every connection on the Cords controller, mapping the results. Then a patient would have muscle control. Then, provide stimulus to every region below the cord's implant, and map that as well, and the final step would be to test the reentrant signals back into the brain; this would be the "hardest" as it could/ would cause phantom pains while mapping. then allow the patient to try to move everything, while letting the circuitry's algorithm further refine control. Obviously we have a long way to go before we reach this step, but progress is always nice to see.
what's wrong with your brain being the only thing in control, it works well enough for the rest of us...why do impared people think they deserve something more?
"...three rats were taught to move a robotic arm toward a target with just their thoughts. Each time they succeeded, the rats were rewarded with a drop of water."
Lucky rats!
This is all very exciting, I can't wait until this is applied to those that are in the need. This is why I love technology.
I can't wait...finally we can be Borg. Seriously though I don't see anything wrong with this...our evolution is largely out of the hands of normal natural selection anyway thanks to medicine and all the machines we use everyday (cars, computers, etc.) so taking that last step and integrating is pretty natural.
Personally I do not look forward to my mental decline as I age and wouldn't mind a sweet neural implant that'll keep me sharp. And heck, if these implants get good enough and the line between where I end and the computer begins completely blurs...then it'll just be that much more awesome, because when my biological brain kicks the bucket the electronic side will have learned everything the biological part had...granting me some sort of bizarre and creepy electronic immortality.