Can intelligentizing the human brain then create a stronger AI?

Recently, Neuralink, a brain-computer interface startup in which Elon Musk has invested more than $100 million, demonstrated a new generation of brain-computer interface devices at a live launch.

What is a brain-computer interface? Probably this term is uncommon in our daily life. Brain-computer interface is the most cutting-edge research field to establish a pathway for information transmission between human (or animal) and external devices to realize real-time transmission of human consciousness. Machine learning technology is also utilized to prize brainwave signals to establish mapping relationships with their corresponding action responses, allowing human consciousness to be translated on machines.

To put it in human terms: After accessing the brain-machine, when your brain signals are sent out, they are sent to the computer in real time and translated, and the machine can be guided to complete the command.

This new product is about the size of a fingernail, with 1024 channels, and can read a lot of information from the human brain, which is expected to have a more pronounced effect on diseases including memory loss, anxiety, brain damage, and depression.

Musk said that the Nerulink brain-machine products do not require general anesthesia for the surgical process, the implantation of a hole in the human head with a diameter of only one inch, and sewed up so that people have no perception. The damage to the human brain will be greatly reduced. Only one chip is installed to replace a small part of the human skull, and if done properly, there will be no blood. This means that accessing the brain machine is much less damaging to the human brain.

It's worth noting that Neuralink was created because of Musk's worries about the rapid development of AI, Musk worried that the unlimited development of AI would largely inhibit humanity's own intelligence. But it is unrealistic to want to completely limit the development of AI, so he gave the solution: develop brain-computer interfaces that can be implanted in the brain, before AI fully surpasses the human, so that the two are fused into one, in the human cerebral cortex in the addition of a layer of AI digital layer, through the interface to allow humans and computers to connect to the cloud wirelessly link, so that human beings themselves become intelligent.

Human brain intelligence is expected to give rise to more application scenarios and technological development

Brain-computer interface technology can, in principle, repair most of the brain problems, such as the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, the disabled to restore body language, for the vegetative person to convey consciousness, etc., that is, the use of artificial devices (prosthesis) to help restore hearing, vision and motor ability, mainly used in the field of neurological health care.

This technology, which has been used primarily in neurological medicine, is still in the experimental and exploratory stages.

Although the technology is only used in the medical field for now, there are concerns about whether a brain-computer interface can read minds? How about privacy? If a signal is fed into a person's brain through a brain-computer interface, will that person's consciousness be manipulated?

In fact, the electroencephalogram (EEG) can be considered a non-contact brain-computer interface, and what the EEG "reads out" is just a bunch of curves, which is basically the same thing as what we see when we go to the hospital for an ultrasound or a CT scan. Perhaps one day it will be possible to "translate" them into something we can understand, but that day is still a long way off, not to mention the difficulty of "mind control".

Nonetheless, brain-computer interfaces are an exciting development. Brain-computer interface technology can improve the brain's operation (just improve it), so that people can always keep a full "charge", think fast, pay attention, and learn several times faster; it can also copy the brain's hippocampus memory code, and implant it into another brain through a chip, so as to realize memory transplantation, and have a large amount of knowledge and skills in a short period of time.

At present, this ability has been successful in monkeys, as for the application of the human body will be the day, is not yet known.

But we can also dare to imagine that outside of the medical context, when the human brain is empowered by a machine, can a more powerful human brain create smarter application scenarios and AI technologies?

The popularity of intelligent empowerment scenarios is accelerating

It's not a fantasy. In the accelerated development of mobile internet, big data, and AI technologies, many new application scenarios have subverted the original habits of human activities that have lasted for decades, from offline purchases to cell phone orders, from mobile phone calls to video calls, and from human to mobile phone calls. cell phone calls to video calls, from human labor to machine replacement, etc., people's habits continue to be intelligent and intelligent. Go back 20 years, there is no so-called mobile payment, the takeaway industry did not develop, and it is impossible to buy food online, how many people dare to imagine the future can not leave the house for a few months can also live?

Similarly, the current development of artificial intelligence technology is subverting people's imagination. During this year's epidemic, drug delivery robots and diagnostic robots have allowed healthcare workers to greatly reduce the frequency of viral contact, and various drone patrols and drone disinfection have also made quite an outstanding contribution. Artificial intelligence is gradually coming into view, into the modern industry.

In the explosive technology era, how has AI traveled over the mountains and hills to get to real-world application scenarios? How many more possibilities are there for AI technology? How can AI technology be laid out to create real value?

Under the wave of the digital economy, artificial intelligence has become an indispensable "cornerstone"

Looking back, many advances in the field of artificial intelligence may not have been recognized by the public, but in this year's outbreak, the irreplaceable role played by artificial intelligence has allowed governments and enterprises around the world to see the enabling utility of artificial intelligence. technology's enabling utility. On March 4 this year, China explicitly pointed out that it would accelerate the progress of new infrastructure construction, including 5G networks, artificial intelligence, and data centers. Obviously, in the wave of the digital economy, AI is no longer the "icing on the cake", but an indispensable "cornerstone of growth".

At the 2020 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Conference AI session, Zhang Zhengyou, Director of Tencent AI Lab and Robotics X; Huang Feiyue, Deputy General Manager of Tencent Youtu Lab; Shan Shiguang, Researcher and Doctor of Philosophy at the Institute of Computing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Daguo, author of the independent artist's AI film "100 Years of Film Restoration in Old Beijing"; Li Xuezhao, Vice President of Product of Tencent Intelligent Platform; and Tencent Intelligent Technology Co. Li Xuezhao, vice president of platform products, Wang Lei, general manager of Tencent Cloud AI computer vision product center, Yang Jing, founder and CEO of Xin Zhiyuan, director of the China Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Alliance, and Wang Huai, CEO & founder of Linear Capital and recipient of the World Economic Forum's "Young Global Leader" award in 2018.

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