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Can a brain chip be hacked?
With implantable brain chips, there is a risk that the devices could be hacked for malicious intentions and hackers could involuntarily turn users into “killing machines,” according to a Turkish IT specialist.
Can a machine read your thoughts?
A machine that can read your mind and convert thoughts into speech has been built and tested by scientists. ‘We’ve shown that, with the right technology, these people’s thoughts could be decoded and understood by any listener.
Can Elon Musk Neuralink be hacked?
Experts warn that Elon Musk’s Neuralink implanted brain chips could lead to a ‘hacked army of sentient beings’, saying development in technology should be carried out ‘thoughtfully’.
How is Neuralink possible?
Neuralink is a gadget that will be surgically inserted into the brain using robotics by neurosurgeons. In this procedure, a chipset called the link is implanted in the skull. It has a number of insulated wires connected from the electrodes that are used in the process.
Is Elon Musk’s ‘brain-machine interface’ for pigs feasible?
That’s what tech entrepreneur Elon Musk suggested in a recent presentation of the Neuralink device, an innovative brain-machine interface implanted in a pig called Gertrude. But how feasible is his vision?
What can we learn from the Neuralink?
When people are shown a real-time display of the signal from individual cells in their own brain, they can often learn to increase or decrease that activity through a process called neurofeedback. Maybe when using the Neuralink, people might be able to learn how to activate their brain cells in the right way to control the interface.
What is Elon Musk’s vision for the future?
Elon Musk’s vision goes beyond Zuckerberg’s (or at least beyond what Zuckerberg has said publicly). While Zuckerberg has described external brain sensors that would allow you to “type” 100 words per minute with your mind, Musk wants to merge brains and computers much more deeply, through a brain chip that both sends and receives information.
How do brain-machine interfaces work?
Today, most brain-machine interfaces use an approach called “biomimetic” decoding. First, brain activity is recorded while the user imagines various actions such as moving their arm left or right. Once we know which brain cells prefer different directions, we can “decode” subsequent movements by tallying their action potentials like votes.