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Would a high bandwidth brain to computer interface revolutionize technology?
NiHaoMike:
If there existed some way to quickly send information from the brain to a computer (at a rate a few orders of magnitude faster than existing input devices), how would it revolutionize technology? My thought is that content creation would be radically changed - just imagine something and tell the computer about it. Programming, likewise, would also be vastly accelerated.
I also assume that the technology for that is a long ways off, but just how long off?
ataradov:
It would not do anything to the programming. When I program, I'm absolutely not limited by the speed of my typing. Majority of the time is spent thinking though the problem, which does not need a computer at all.
And in general, I don't think it would do much if anything at all. It might make existing tasks more convenient and marginally faster, but I doubt it would revolutionize anything.
Brumby:
I agree with the programming ... I spend more time thinking about what can go wrong and how to deal with those conditions than actually writing code - sanitising inputs, checking boundary conditions and the like.
I see major hurdles for generic functionality, but even specific functionality hasn't done much lately. We're only just getting into bionic limb control, much less the scenario of Clint Eastwood in Firefox ... some 40 years ago.
I don't say it's impossible - but it's just that we are so far off from that, we really don't even know what questions to ask.
pcprogrammer:
But if it worked it would pick up on the thinking about a programming problem and might provide the solution :)
That aside, it is in the restoring of lost capabilities that it can work both ways. For instance blind people can get some vision again with signal input into the brain. This has seen some breakthrough recently. https://www.zmescience.com/science/artificial-retina-blindness-882623542/
The other way round is controlling artificial limbs like Brumby mentioned, where the electric impulses found in the body can be used. Don't know the status of this.
Real control of systems based on brain waves, I think is not there yet. I'm sure there will be lots of research done on it.
Bud:
Not sure if it would revolutionize anything, but it has killed a few monkies already.
Fortune.com:
--- Quote ---Musk brain-chip company Neuralink admits to killing 8 monkeys in experiments
--- End quote ---
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