Mad Science

[McLeodGanja]

by a mad scientist.

BBC NEWS | Americas | Machines 'to match man by 2029' (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7248875.stm)

This guy is off his nut!

"Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people's brains to make them more intelligent said engineer Ray Kurzweil...."I've made the case that we will have both the hardware and the software to achieve human level artificial intelligence with the broad suppleness of human intelligence including our emotional intelligence by 2029," he said."

Why 2029? Why not just say 2030? 21 years, 22 years. I mean it's highly questionable we will be able to what he is suggesting, but to quote such a precise timescale for it's development...

I think he needs to smoke a pipe and come to terms with his delusionality.

[psychocat]

I have no idea how advanced the research is into the technology but I do know there are already electronic aids that are hardwired to nerves. I think it is natural for our curiosity to experiment to improve the human animal.

Cochlear Implants
Cochlear implants are used to restore hearing to people with middle ear damage but have functional auditory nerves in the cochlea. These devices consist of an external piece similar to a hearing aid. Sound is converted into electrical pulses that travel to a series of electrodes coiled within the cochlea. Each electrode represents the sound of a particular frequency range within the cochlea, which then uses normal hearing mechanisms to send the sound to the brain along the auditory nerve.

Retinal Implants
Retinal implants consist of a chip with a series of photoreceptors used to create signals that can directly stimulate the optic nerve. In some cases, more conventional camera technology feeds into a computer that stimulates electrodes in the optical cortex of the brain. There is a lengthy learning process to create organized vision and the resolution is quite limited. In the case of the optical cortex, the patient must help map where the apparent position of light is when each electrode is stimulated and the computer is used to reorganize the inputs of the camera to be consistent with the mapping.

Think how far technology has advanced since the 1950's

And you thought Terminator was fiction. :D

[action.420]

In my opinion to have tiny robots( or A.I) implanted in our brains would ruin mankind. No longer would an individual just rely on computers, and other devices throughout their daily life, but to rely on one to think would make one dull. Thats why "we" developed all these machines, and tools throughout history to begin with right?....So there was more leisure time to pursue what truly made you happy. To each his own, if he wants to have a fucking computer in his head then so be it...If you think I'm biased then you are sadly mistaken. I'm a computer science major. :thumbsup:


What a dumbass (I take it back, he is definitely smarter than me, but his views and ideas are weak to state it bluntly) and that will never happen. I just go on and on how it would ruin life, but I think if you don't agree you should ponder the question...

Wow I just re-read this and it's a jumbled mess. Sorry. I'm all for technology for a variety of reasons, (Maybe, I'm just a nerd :jointsmile: ) but putting something in our brain to enhance our knowledge of every fact and calculation know to mankind is taking it too far. You are no-longer "human" in my eyes.

[McLeodGanja]

I'm sure they will be able to do crazy stuff like this, wiring peoples brains into computers and stuff, but the prediction that they will be able to use it to enhance ones intelligence is just too far fetched.

[McLeodGanja]

Anyway, why bother implanting nanobots into our brains to make us more intelligent, when we already have THC? :thumbsup:

[Coelho]

Anyway, why bother implanting nanobots into our brains to make us more intelligent, when we already have THC? :thumbsup:

Because THC comes from a plant which can be planted by anyone everywhere by free... while this nanobots would have to be bought by large amounts of money... also, they would use this nanobots to control minds people... if they were linked directly to the brain, why not? And its the opposite of the weeds effect, which is free peoples mind from external influences...

Anyway, im satisfied with my own (weed-improved of course :jointsmile:) intelligency and would NEVER EVER put any machine into my mind.

[McLeodGanja]

Anyway, im satisfied with my own (weed-improved of course :jointsmile:) intelligency and would NEVER EVER put any machine into my mind.

But would you put your mind in a machine?

Check this.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Brain control headset for gamers (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7254078.stm)

[Coelho]

But would you put your mind in a machine?

I would not... remember what happened with that man who was turned into Dr.Octopus in Spider-Man 2...

[blisteringanomaly]

if that happens you won't have any say in the matter as they are nano bots and undetectable to the human eye unless of course there is a swarm of millions of them, and also if it does happen this world will no longer be ours it will be the machines, AI is bad and will destroy humanity as our current robotic rules have only one outcome and that's the one we saw in IRobot as we are detrimental to our own enviroment at this point in time.

[40oz]

The day I let a robot take credit for my intelligence and do my thinking for me will be the day the world ends.

[40oz]

Been there. Done that. Still got the student loans arrears to pay off.:(

hahaha i hear ya.

So wouldnt something like this brain robot obscure the line between Intelligence and A.I.?

[Coelho]

I wouldn't get too worried about it though, they haven't yet been able to design batteries that fit inside these nano-bots.

It would worry me still more... in The Matrix, the robots did use humans as source of energy...

[Iyaman]

i don't think references to movies are necessary though a lot of the stuff in them may come to be a reality. I don't think there will be some robot world takeover. machines should stick to doing labourius tasks. Eventualy we will be able to plant information directly into our brains or improve ourselves any way we want so i think the intellegence part of life should stay with humans. and the work we will have to do won't be to difficult because as soon as we've thought of it the task would have been completed arleady.