A New Magic Called " Neural Lace" By Katherine Lightwood

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A New Magic Called " Neural Lace"

By Katherine Lightwood


Our brains are individuals, little gelatinous masses. But silicon valley superstars want to create something out of science fiction that would change all that- a new technology called Neural Lace. Neural Lace was coined by Iain Banks in a long-running set of science fiction novels. In the books, this technology helps the brain to interact with AI, and with each other. Back in the real world tech companies want to give your brain the same upgrade.

Now, this 'neural lace' term might sound very shiny but it is another way of saying 'Brain-Computer Interface' somethings scientists have experimented with for decades. This totally took off in the 90's and by late 2000's there are more than 100 new peer-reviewed papers every year looking at how to hook up a man to machine. Recently, scientists have hooked up rats to this things and found a set of mixed results and they made it so that paralyzed people could move and feel sensations.

And what this does? You might ask. They suck up brain activity like brain waves with EEG's or blood flow with fMRI's. They can measure activities with electrodes but to date, nothing can directly interconnect and read the neurons in the brain. We just get a general idea of what's going on. And that's why neural lace is promising. And scientists are trying to create a direct hard connection through this.

Right now, it's sort of like we are watching the brain through binoculars, rather than going over and having a chat, which makes humanity sound like real creepers.
In new research, neural lace 's promise is that the lace would be injected into the brain, embed itself, and then live there, intertwined with your brain cells. Translating your thoughts into computer language, uploading and downloading information from networks and so on. This could improve the memory and allows up to keep up with the AI, and when I say AI, I mean ASI(Artificial Super Intelligence). We could even communicate with each other. I know, it sounds so cool. But it doesn't exist yet. Research is going on in this.

And Yes, Elon Musk, the real-life Iron Man teased it once, but trust me we are not there yet. Rather than that here we are: A prototype of brain injectable technology was published in Nature Nanotechnology in 2015. after injection, this nanoscopic plastic and metal mesh embedded itself in mouse brains. And that's it. A place where we can start to connect a brain to something else. Doesn't that seem quite similar to learning how wires work and saying we've invented the internet, the computer, and smartphone? this paper made a splash because it was the first successful embedding ever done. So, this is just an injection and it's a huge win. But being able to add an interface right into the brain is a step down the path of Singularity where man and machine become one.

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Katherine Lightwood      
        

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