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Mark Zuckerberg-Funded Researchers Test Implantable Brain Devices (scmp.com)
Mark Zuckerberg and his pediatrician wife Priscilla Chan have sold close to 30 million shares of Facebook to fund an ambitious biomedical research project, called the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), with a goal of curing all disease within a generation. A less publicized component of that US$5 billion program includes work on brain-machine interfaces, devices that essentially translate thoughts into commands.
From a report: One recent project is a wireless brain implant that can record, stimulate and disrupt the movement of a monkey in real time. In a paper published in the highly cited scientific journal Nature on Monday, researchers detail a wireless brain device implanted in a primate that records, stimulates, and modifies its brain activity in real time, sensing a normal movement and stopping it immediately. Those researchers are part of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, a non-profit medical research group within the CZI. Scientists refer to the interference as "therapy" because it is designed to be used to treat diseases like epilepsy or Parkinson's by stopping a seizure or other disruptive motion just as it starts.
"Our device is able to monitor the primate's brain while it's providing the therapy so you know exactly what's happening," Rikky Muller, a co-author of the new study, told Business Insider. A professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, Muller is also a Biohub investigator. The applications of brain-machine interfaces are far-reaching: while some researchers focus on using them to help assist people with spinal cord injuries or other illnesses that affect movement, others aim to see them transform how everyone interacts with laptops and smartphones. Both a division at Facebook formerly called Building 8 as well as an Elon Musk-founded company called Neuralink have said they are working on the latter.
"Our device is able to monitor the primate's brain while it's providing the therapy so you know exactly what's happening," Rikky Muller, a co-author of the new study, told Business Insider. A professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, Muller is also a Biohub investigator. The applications of brain-machine interfaces are far-reaching: while some researchers focus on using them to help assist people with spinal cord injuries or other illnesses that affect movement, others aim to see them transform how everyone interacts with laptops and smartphones. Both a division at Facebook formerly called Building 8 as well as an Elon Musk-founded company called Neuralink have said they are working on the latter.
Kind of like the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz. If I only had a brain...
I donâ(TM)t use them and neither should you.
How much of your brain can be replaced by parts until you are just a simulation of yourself
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
I/O error...
What they want is to swap commands into thoughts.
Obey.
L'Idiot
How much of your brain can be replaced by parts until you are just a simulation of yourself
How much of your brain can be removed by parts until you are just a simulation of Mark Zuckerberg? I can see it play out: "Nope, still acting conscientious. We aren't there yet."
And every move you make
Every bond you break, every step you take
I'll be watching you
Every single day
And every word you say
Every game you play, every night you stay
I'll be watching you
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I'd say, why the hell not? Apparently nothing I do skeeves people out, so why not get direct access to their brains?
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are always built with the most benevolent intentions.
We will win. 4 more years of Trump, and a whole lot of leftist suicides.
Damn right! Itâ(TM)s time to let China and Russia take the lead while we focus on denying education and healthcare to every US citizen that isnâ(TM)t a millionaire
abusing monkeys for our psycho pleasure, Note to Mark, you want to play with this stuff, lets use your body/brain. You are sick Mark, SICK.
Ads and surveillance in the brain. Can't wait.
| a wireless brain implant that can record, stimulate and disrupt the movement of a monkey in real time. | Next up: Villains controlling monkeys remotely wherever they are. 100 000 Frank Baum fans "liked" this idea.
He supports animal abuse.
LOL at Russia taking the lead.
How much lead have you taken?
Not only will this device eventually serve you advertisements you can't ignore, but it will share your very thoughts with Facebook's partners!
How awesome is that?? Every millennial faggot is lining up to get a shitty Jewberg device that can interfere with your mind.
Future looks bright
Not even for $1,000. See the next article for reference.
Laudable, if stupid, goal. And just another way for the duo to distract from all the evil Facebook does and will continue to do. And if you think they won't monetize this somehow, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
... Facebook.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
That is just funny
Where are the animal rights activists? I doubt something like this would ever be accepted willingly by anyone, if it even worked, which I doubt. One thing is for certain though: tech CEOs are officially Josef Mengele, they are not well, and there needs to be some serious monopoly busting in this country.
I guess it is only a matter of time by when having yourself equipped with a remote controlled brain-implant becomes a mandatory requirement for use of Facebook... use of the Internet... having a social score above zero... being allowed to do any business... being allowed to lived. And extrapolating from the current development of public opinion, those implants will be hailed as the only one true solution to fight child pornography and terrorism.
I'm sure Mark Zuckerberg was first in line so that his brain could be tested. Actually, I wish he had one that would short circuit and leave him a goddamed drooling vegetable. God I have that man.
Mark Zukerburg looks upon his machine-dominated subjects with glee, as he advances to the stage to announce the next step in his world-domination scheme.
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What Zuckerberg really wants is Facebook to have unprecedented access to your deepest most private thoughts and emotions. Just imagine how much more advertisers, nosy corporations, and even nosier governments will pay for THAT. Fuck you, Zuckerberg. Stay the fuck out of people's heads.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), with a goal of curing all disease within a generation. A less publicized component of that US$5 billion program includes work on brain-machine interfaces, ...
Hey! Wait, wait, wait. What are they thinking? We could have part of a wall for that kind of money...
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Maybe you shouldn't have racked up $100k debt for an obviously worthless liberal arts degree (five minutes on Google would have told you this).
Facebook developing a brain implant?
Is it April 1st already??
PLEASE tell me this is a joke.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
You will assimilate yourselves, and pay us for the privilege.
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Gotta get the compulsion chips installed before Facebook goes out of business in 2019.
Don't the alien species he belongs to already have brain implants to control their minions? If not, maybe he can fast track the project and just reverse engineer the ones he has from the Borg.
Isn't it just typical that the person complaining about the wealthy and privileged is doing so with an iPhone? Such a textbook trait of the virtue signaling hypocrisy we've come to expect from the trust fund kids on the radical left.
Has anyone else ever seen that serious role Robin Williams did in a film called The Final Cut? It was a sci-fi about a society that had implants in their brains to record all of their life's moments. When they died, technicians would retrieve the footage from their brains and make compilation films for everyone at their funerals. This had all become a "tradition" enforced on this society by very aggressive marketing campaigns built around emotional blackmail and peer pressure, all controlled by the company that makes the implants and provides the funeral services.
It was some really creepy shit, and I can imagine Zuckerberg is planning on something reminiscent of that film being the endgame of this technology. It fits right in with how Facebook operates by manufacturing cultural and social dependencies out of their products and services. I highly recommend watching this film, it's one of Williams' lesser known roles but one of my favourite. I would not be surprised if the Zuck has already seen it.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364343/
You're all out of touch.
This has been done before - in the 1960's. José Manuel Rodriguez Delgado developed an implant, that was controlled by radio. You can search for and find a famous video where he lets a bull attack him - then he presses a button on his transmitter and the bull aborts its attack.
The device was also tested on humans, (seen as a gentler alternative to lobotomy) so he's still ahead of Zuckerberg's researchers. Largely forgotten and abandoned, as people feared "mind control".
if they manage to make this work, i imagine a lot of people would buy into it.
just see tfa posted after this one, people won't even leave facebook for $1000.
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
Why. Why would you ever trust this.
I'm suuuure they've got your best interests at heart..... but this is a terrible idea.
If this system can interact with your brain it seems more likely that it would be a massive weakness than a strength.
Right now no one can hack your brain it control your body remotely/trap your mind/see your thoughts.
Why would you accept a system that makes that even remotely possible.
I thought they said they were going to cure disease, not take over a brain with buggy software and hope it works without errors.
Zuckerberg can't be trusted with our data. Why the HELL would anyone trust him with our THOUGHTS?
That's just crazy talk.