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A new era of ‘assisted thinking’ (mind control)?
CHAT-GPT BRAIN CHIPS
It was only a matter of time before brain-chip technology met next-generation AI.
Synchron, a brain-computer interface (BCI) company rivalling Elon Musk’s Neuralink, is now incorporating OpenAI’s ChatGPT into its software.
The stated goal of this integration is to make it “simpler for people with paralysis to manage their digital devices”, something it says is a world first for a BCI company.
As part of this application, ChatGPT generates “inputs” by prompting users, whose implanted BCIs enable navigation and selection of responses.
Synchron’s founding CEO, Tom Oxley, describes how the BCI “restores people’s ability to choose how they respond”, while AI “transforms various inputs into a context-based experience”.
Synchron has already experimented with a unique approach to implanting its BCI without the need for open brain surgery. Oxley recently spoke about the future of AI and brain implants:
According to Oxley, typing messages with current BCI devices is still slow, so adding AI aims to “speed things up” by considering the context of the conversation and “predicting responses”, offering a menu of possible options.
Almost like an auto-correct for your brain.
Now, instead of typing out each word, answers can be “filled in with a single click”. There’s also a “refresh button” in case none of the AI answers are “right”.
Oxley said his company was experimenting with different AI models for about a year, but the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o in May hit the nail on the head.
The “o” in ChatGPT-4o stands for “omni,” representative of the fact that this latest version is capable of taking in text, audio and visual inputs all at once to ‘inform its outputs’.
We spoke about the power of ChatGPT when it first launched, and that version is a baby compared to what is being done with newer releases.
Oxley envisions the future of BCIs as similar: One where these devices have large language models like ChatGPT taking in relevant context (text, audio and visuals) to provide relevant prompts that users can select.
In addition to “restoring faster response times, natural conversational speeds and interaction with texting”, this integration hopes to eventually “enable Synchron to bring sound, image and video to their users for multi-modal experiences” in the months ahead.
What was once science fiction is now becoming a reality, and important questions need to be asked surrounding just where this technology is really headed.. and what’s it’s real use in the future will be.
MIND READING TECHNOLOGY
Synchron’s implant called a “Stentrode” is placed in a blood vessel near the brain’s motor cortex, which controls movement.
To click or make a selection with the Synchron BCI, users “think about moving”, and the BCI “interprets those thoughts” and wirelessly sends the command to the user’s device.
Synchron’s BCI is expected to cost between $50,000 and $100,000 – similar to other implanted medical devices like pacemakers or cochlear implants.
It has been an interesting path to get here..
“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull,” says Winston, the protagonist from George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The comment is meant to highlight the repressive surveillance state the characters live in. In retrospect, at least their brains are still private, unlike the world we are heading into.
So what’s really going on here? Let’s consider the following:
In recent years, corporations and governments have been making aggressive investments in technology explicitly created to allow your mind to control and interact with devices.
Earlier this year, it was reported that a Neuralink brain chip had been implanted in a human for the first time, truly marking the beginning of the man-machine symbiosis era.
In March, Neuralink livestreamed its first patient implanted with a chip playing online chess. Reposting the video, Musk said: “Livestream of Neuralink demonstrating ‘Telepathy’ – controlling a computer and playing video games just by thinking”.
For now, this new ChatGPT-powered competitor and Musk’s company are both pushing messaging that this is here to ‘help those who are immobile live a better life’.. but is this really where things will end?
Musk told the World Government Summit in 2017 that as humanity’s daily dependence on technology increases, humans should simply merge with machines.
Last year, Duke University futurist, Nita Farahany, gave a speech at the World Economic Forum detailing how ‘hacking of the brain’ has already arrived.
A research team in China also says it has used a solar-powered brain control device to remotely steer a pigeon in flight for nearly two hours.
So, we know that mind control via these devices is entirely possible.
The real question is: who is controlling it? You or the company?
Human brain implants that can be analysed remotely are now possible, thanks to researchers at UQ who developed the ‘world’s first completely wireless remote care platform’.
Yes, you can now be controlled and monitored remotely if you have one of these devices in.
Now, consider this recent story that was released earlier in the month:
Are you starting to see where I’m going with this?
Yes, of course BCI advances are starting off in healthcare, but this tech will soon one day become commercialised. And that will lead to a world in which we could never imagine.
Don’t believe me? A recent RAND report forecasted the potential of a future with robotic and microchip-driven warmongering.
The report, Plagues, Cyborgs, and Supersoldiers: The Human Domain of War Research, delves into how CRISPR gene-editing technology, mRNA vaccines, brain networking and other technological advancements, could unleash new forms of military conflict.
We must also be suspicious of the programmed ‘prompts’ that one may be given.
Remember when Microsoft announced that new changes to their Office suite would include a focus on “language bias”, and will suggest “correct recommendations” that are more ‘sensitive’?
Could a ChatGPT-powered brain chip also offer ‘correct’ recommendations for BCI speech?
If so, that is an entirely new world of thought control.. now correcting, in real-time, inside of your head.
We are entering a wild era of humanity, folks. Strap yourselves in.
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What could possibly go wrong? More brain disease due to having metals in the brain? I cannot see it being a good thing ever. Another money making scheme? If there was no money to be made they would not be doing it.