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The Neural Engineering System Design (NESD) program seeks to develop high-resolution neurotechnology capable of mitigating the effects of injury and disease on the visual and auditory systems of military personnel. In addition to creating novel hardware and algorithms, the program conducts research to understand how various forms of neural sensing and actuation might improve restorative therapeutic outcomes.
The focus of the program is development of advanced neural interfaces that provide high signal resolution, speed, and volume data transfer between the brain and electronics, serving as a translator for the electrochemical language used by neurons in the brain and the ones and zeros that constitute the language of information technology. The program aims to develop an interface that can read 106 neurons, write to 105 neurons, and interact with 103 neurons full-duplex, a far greater scale than is possible with existing neurotechnology.
originally posted by: Whatsthisthen
And how easy will this computer-human interface be to hack? To jam, to overload?
When people become used to artificial enhancements how quickly do they fall apart when the enhancement stops working?
Just ask a teenager to hand over their cell phone and walk the three miles to school.
Try taking facebook away from someone. They can't function and begin to panic.
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
Below is some more information on the current discussion on Chinas development of human hybrids. I think that we are now seeing a new kind of arms race one that may be based on superhuman AI biotechnology and nanotechnology within future humans. I am starting to wonder how far this type of progression will go? Will materials being used change over time? Truly an amazing shift in technology to being more internal rather than external.
This article below was interesting to me because they began to talk about the biotechnology changes that may go hand in hand with AI progression. So supersolders with super bodies brains that are hooked up to technology as well. This stuff is straight out of comics and sci fi. Very interesting stuff!
Defense Intel Chief Worried About Chinese ‘Integration of Human and Machines’
www.defenseone.com...
Chinese efforts to teach machines to think — through emerging technologies like neural nets, a form of artificial intelligence — represent phases of a process that concludes with “the next step, the integration of human and machines,” Ashley said.
The Chinese government is funding academic research into brain-computer interfaces, according to Elsa Kania, a fellow with the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (and occasional Defense One contributor).
“The PLA’s Academy of Military Science has focused on advancing military-civil fusion (or civil-military integration, in brain science research, including to explore options to enhance human capabilities for battlefield perception and decision-making.”
That includes everything from implants that enable human “wetware” (brains) to interact with and share digital information with hardware (computers), to gene-editing through tools like CRISPR. Such work may one day allow China to grow superior troops, or turn regular soldiers into super ones.
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
They might have the tech to engineer super soldiers but it will still take them 20 years until their 'weapons' aren't just out of control teenagers.
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
originally posted by: Whatsthisthen
And how easy will this computer-human interface be to hack? To jam, to overload?
When people become used to artificial enhancements how quickly do they fall apart when the enhancement stops working?
Just ask a teenager to hand over their cell phone and walk the three miles to school.
Try taking facebook away from someone. They can't function and begin to panic.
You may be onto something and perhaps we civilians will be getting this technology for a few reasons.
1. I think we may be going foward with one upmanship with this tech because its turned into a global arms race with a countries like China as well as Russia.
2. It is very difficult to advance a technology that few people use. However once used by the masses real advancements can really be seen. For example the internet has really changed once it became available for civillian use. It became much better, and the department of defence now has increadible cyber warfare capability they didnt have before and probably would never have made if they didnt realease the tech to the public.
Think what would happen if the internet was taken away from us, people would have no idea what to do with themselves. I remember when there was no suchthing as the internet, there were no cell phones, and the best video games were in this place called an arcade.
I would compare the greateat developments they have now to the accomplishment of the game pong. Look how far games have come since then.
What am I trying to say? This is just the tip of the iceberg for nanotechnologies within the human body, this type of innovation wont ever stop once it gets started.
Whats the final goal?
My guess is they want to hack into and control reality itself with the power of the human mind.
originally posted by: PokeyJoe
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
Below is some more information on the current discussion on Chinas development of human hybrids. I think that we are now seeing a new kind of arms race one that may be based on superhuman AI biotechnology and nanotechnology within future humans. I am starting to wonder how far this type of progression will go? Will materials being used change over time? Truly an amazing shift in technology to being more internal rather than external.
This article below was interesting to me because they began to talk about the biotechnology changes that may go hand in hand with AI progression. So supersolders with super bodies brains that are hooked up to technology as well. This stuff is straight out of comics and sci fi. Very interesting stuff!
Defense Intel Chief Worried About Chinese ‘Integration of Human and Machines’
www.defenseone.com...
Chinese efforts to teach machines to think — through emerging technologies like neural nets, a form of artificial intelligence — represent phases of a process that concludes with “the next step, the integration of human and machines,” Ashley said.
The Chinese government is funding academic research into brain-computer interfaces, according to Elsa Kania, a fellow with the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (and occasional Defense One contributor).
“The PLA’s Academy of Military Science has focused on advancing military-civil fusion (or civil-military integration, in brain science research, including to explore options to enhance human capabilities for battlefield perception and decision-making.”
That includes everything from implants that enable human “wetware” (brains) to interact with and share digital information with hardware (computers), to gene-editing through tools like CRISPR. Such work may one day allow China to grow superior troops, or turn regular soldiers into super ones.
Its cool that China is working on that, but just above you quoted DARPA saying we already have this technology. We have a BCI capable of allowing a human to control 3 drones at the same time. This is what DARPA is saying publicly. Elon Musk has an entire company dedicated to this very thing. Imagine the things they have behind closed doors, that they dont talk about in public? DARPA and the military have not just been sitting on their thumbs while the rest of the world jetpacks into the future.
How China could beat the West in the deadly race for AI weapons
www.wired.co.uk...
“These naive hippy developers from Silicon Valley don’t understand – the CIA should force them,” says Gaycken, founder of the digital society institute at ESMT, a Berlin-based business school.
Why China will win the global race for complete AI dominance
www.wired.co.uk...
“The State Council paper laid out China’s desire to be a hub of AI innovation by 2030, and these papers have teeth in terms of very strong local execution,” says Kai-Fu Lee, a key figure in the Chinese technology industry
McKenna predicted machine-human telepathy almost 30 years ago, saying, “Well then it seems to me the thing you want to become is naked linguistic intent – pure intent toward communication. And so by mapping the linguistic possibility onto a topological continuum, and then processing it through computers, we actually create a true mirror for our own mind. And so to look upon this and to share it with other people, is to participate in a true form of telepathy. And I think this true, boundary-dissolving telepathy uniting us all into one family should be the goal of the cyberspatial community.”
While McKenna saw “linguistic possibilities” processed through computers as being a technology “uniting us all into one family” telepathically, this technology is now being weaponized by DARPA.
Read More: Terence Mckenna’s ‘cyberdelic’ predictions for Virtual Reality 25 years on
Defense One reports that the technology can be used to detect threats and how to counteract them by communicating with drone swarms through a BCI.
“We’ve scaled it to three [aircraft], and have full sensory [signals] coming back. So you can have those other planes out in the environment and then be detecting something and send that signal back into the brain,” said Sanchez via Defense One.
originally posted by: PokeyJoe
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
Below is some more information on the current discussion on Chinas development of human hybrids. I think that we are now seeing a new kind of arms race one that may be based on superhuman AI biotechnology and nanotechnology within future humans. I am starting to wonder how far this type of progression will go? Will materials being used change over time? Truly an amazing shift in technology to being more internal rather than external.
This article below was interesting to me because they began to talk about the biotechnology changes that may go hand in hand with AI progression. So supersolders with super bodies brains that are hooked up to technology as well. This stuff is straight out of comics and sci fi. Very interesting stuff!
Defense Intel Chief Worried About Chinese ‘Integration of Human and Machines’
www.defenseone.com...
Chinese efforts to teach machines to think — through emerging technologies like neural nets, a form of artificial intelligence — represent phases of a process that concludes with “the next step, the integration of human and machines,” Ashley said.
The Chinese government is funding academic research into brain-computer interfaces, according to Elsa Kania, a fellow with the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (and occasional Defense One contributor).
“The PLA’s Academy of Military Science has focused on advancing military-civil fusion (or civil-military integration, in brain science research, including to explore options to enhance human capabilities for battlefield perception and decision-making.”
That includes everything from implants that enable human “wetware” (brains) to interact with and share digital information with hardware (computers), to gene-editing through tools like CRISPR. Such work may one day allow China to grow superior troops, or turn regular soldiers into super ones.
Its cool that China is working on that, but just above you quoted DARPA saying we already have this technology. We have a BCI capable of allowing a human to control 3 drones at the same time. This is what DARPA is saying publicly. Elon Musk has an entire company dedicated to this very thing. Imagine the things they have behind closed doors, that they dont talk about in public? DARPA and the military have not just been sitting on their thumbs while the rest of the world jetpacks into the future.
originally posted by: ADVISOR
Wanted to share this info and will update with additional resources;
www.abovetopsecret.com...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...
towardsdatascience.com...
Can't find it at moment, but there is an older tread topic called DARPA mind/brain machine interface, with a logo of a brain with one lobe organic and other is circuitry.
It's not coming up in my search...
originally posted by: fluff007
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
I find all this very disturbing and doesn't give me great hopes for the future either...! Thanks for info and thread..
I think they may be a lot further on than we may think. The next 20 years is gonna be one hell of a ride..
As for how far the progression will go.. Well Musk is already making neurolace so humans can assimilate and link in with AI. Thats pretty scary stuff!
And who knows about the stuff they don't tell us about......!