The only way I would ever even consider this is if the firmware was open source and the software to interact with it was open source and it had no direct connection to any sort of network at all and required an external device that I could turn off or on to connect to it an external network. Oh, and the hardware would need to be open source as well.
Yeah, keep fighting the good fight. Keep demanding transparency, accountability, auditability by ANYONE at ANY TIME in ANY DEPTH. Maybe some day. https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tiltuesday/maybemonday.html
It will be proprietary and cloud based, when you skip a payment you collapse on the floor until a family member signs up for extended warranty.
Can’t wait for adverts for the ass blaster 9000® to be beamed directly into my frontal lobe without my consent.
I’d take it
If they can blast in the ads, the need for physical toys pretty much goes away…
That’s a hell of a faustian bargain, good luck with that.
Another tech headline, another thing that would have sounded pretty cool 20-30 years ago but today sounds like an absolute nightmare to stay FAR away from. And this one more than most!
The worst parts of Severance + Pluribus
I wouldn’t trust these assholes with a rabid viper let alone my own brain
Just what everyone needs, the Internet of things wired into their brain. No problems with that ever. No sir. /s
Surely that’s why they pushed for IPv6!
This is me as soon as this happens:
We could be granting everyone in the world a high standard of living but instead we’re going to charge them to self-induce early onset neurodegenerative disease.
Too bad I can’t trust either the competence or intent of those with resources to create brain chips. Sorry teenaged me that desperately wanted true VR, but I’ll probably decline it even if it becomes a thing.
I don’t think I would even trust an open source version that I fully control. Either it would be a pain in the ass to maintain it or it would eventually have some major vuln discovered and lead to people being hacked. Too risky.
I’ll note here that VR goggles were “a thing” 10+ years ago, fast forward to today and they still pretty much suck, like they did back then. Yeah, marginal specs improvements, but the core weaknesses (limited FOV, lower than quality screen resolution, heavy) still apply.
And the fundamental weaknesses, like the disconnect between the game world you’re playing in and the physical world your body needs to play from. You can still run into things in the physical world and pass through things in the virtual world. No physical touch interaction at all from the VR world back to ours, other than vibrations. Still limited by gravity as well as the input devices being used. Can’t really experience non-human shaped things. Hell, even driving around in a vehicle, something VR is relatively good at, isn’t the same because you don’t feel the acceleration and g-forces.
Games like beat saber are the only ones it’s strong at, though I’m sure I’ve done many cuts that would have taken my arm or fatally wounded my legs.
Thing is, I remember a time when getting cosmetic surgery / Botox was the “I’d never do that” thing. Now it’s getting harder to find people in the public eye who haven’t had it.
I think all it’d take is Google/Apple/Meta/MS to normalize the requirement.
Yeah was gonna reply with something like this but you give a good example. I was just thinking how smartphones went from being a rich persons toy to a “necessity” where you are a pariah for not using one. Seriously I have to constantly say I don’t use smartphones in almost every business interaction I do nowadays and I get like annoyed reactions.
So many people are already functionally hooked up, even if it is happening through their eyes and not a direct wire. Prove me wrong, everybody: don’t touch any of your devices for a week. It’s nigh unthinkable now but I remember times when the internet didn’t exist, cell phones didn’t exist, I had no cable TV, no game console, and would only turn on my little black and white Mac to write a paper for school. We listened to music a lot, socialized in person, smoked a lot of… various things, had a lot of sex. It’s a rather poor trade we’ve made if you ask me.
People still do all that, go to a festival and you’ll see plenty of that, it’s just downtime between social events is filled in by phones
Those people don’t exist anymore.
I yearn to go back to the days when a 2 minute lapse in focus/interest didn’t subconsciously send me reaching for my phone.
They’ve got drugs for that…
Yea. I have tried a few. But they either don’t work for me. Or the come down at the end of the day leaves me unable to do anything.
There are people with functioning brain implants helping the blind to see, the deaf to hear, etc.
They don’t work nearly as well as the evolutionary naturally grown versions, they have some nasty technical problems, but they do work after a fashion.
The underlying assumption is “exponentially growing scientific knowledge and technical capability” will turn these dreams real - and it will, for some very small subset of what is being dreamed. I don’t think a practical “everybody gets one” smartphone in the brain is coming in the next 100 years, but who knows?
If by “for a while” you mean “until I’m dead” . . then yea, sure. Any other definition . . no chance in hell.
If you can’t beat them, join them.
If LLMs keep their current level of capability growth for just a few more years … I want a more direct connection.
And yes, this comment is likely to be down voted to hell 😘
We’ve update the terms and conditions. Your subscription to Brainchip has gone up 10x in price. You may pay a $100k termination fee to cover the chip extraction costs. Have a nice day
Failure to pay extraction cost will result in chip self destruction which will result in death.
How anyone could trust them at this point blows my mind, outside of people who need a fucking hail mary like those with neurological disorders.
Idk. I don’t know if I’ll be able to stop from being a bigot towards people who get chips in their brain. Like I simply do not think I will be capable of holding my tongue. Again, unless the chip is literally the only reason they can live a normal life, those people shouldn’t be treated like people.
