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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...
vote trump 2020
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.
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.
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.
"Relax Mark," she says. I slowly unzip my pants.
The living room in this house has an incredible view. It’s as if you can see every inch of the Bay Area from up here. Is the Bay Area seeing every inch of me though?
Mark begins to sob. "My mother was right." He hangs his head in anguish. "I should have married a nice Jewish woman."
"Oh please." Priscilla rolls her eyes. "Have you ever even met a Jewish American Princess? The first JAP you would have tied the knot with would have taken half of your shit and used that money to keep the ball rolling with the next ten men."
"But look at what you’re doing now! I guess I should have expected no better from a girl I met at an AEPi party!" Mark shoots back.
"We agreed this would be the best action to take for the health of our marriage. Why are you so bitter now?"
"I don’t know. It just feels weird."
"That’s normal," Priscilla says coolly. She looks straight at me: "Let’s get this over with."
"Listen, if you guys aren’t comfortable with this, I can leave," I say, trying to keep the situation calm. A dog enters the room. It’s big, with what looks like long white pool noodles for fur. If Bob Marley had an Albino dog, this would be it. He seems confused, but he can tell Mark is agitated. The canine looks at me and begins to snarl.
"Calm down, Beast!" Priscilla shouts.
The dog immediately cowers back in fear, whimpering quietly. How did I get myself into this? Priscilla looks back at me: "No, you’re finishing this."
I shift my gaze back from the dog to the window. "So, are you comfortable, Priscilla?" Great view.
"Doctor," she corrects me.
"Doctor Priscilla?"
"Doctor Chan."
"Have you done something like this with your patients?" Mark interrupts anxiously.
"No Mark, I just prefer to be called by my proper title with strangers. Stop being so petty. You know I love you. I’m doing this for you," she replies gently.
"Yeah. I’m sorry honey. You know I’m just getting worked up," Mark begins to twiddle his thumbs.
"Ugh. You’re worse than your mother. Do you want to be like them?"
I have to interject- "Like who?"
Priscilla is quick to answer: "The Obamas. The Musks. You know."
"No, I really don’t," I answer. Because I don’t. What are these bizarre people going on about?
"Like last New Year’s eve. Elon Musk filed for divorce while everyone was out having the time of their lives," Priscilla explains.
"And the Obamas?" I inquire further.
Mark answers, "I’m pretty much on a first-name basis with Barry. The controversy is that last Christmas vacation when the Obamas flew out to Hawaii, Barry came back, but Michelle stayed an extra week. It was quite a spectacle."
"’I’m pretty much on a first-name basis with Barry.’" Priscilla repeats mockingly. "As if we don’t all know Obama’s first name."
"I don’t get it. What do those guys have to do with you?" I need to ask again, for I am not one of quick wit.
"Well, frankly, the marriage is stagnating. We married too young and never really got to explore ourselves. But we can’t get a divorce, it would be too high profile. The press wouldn’t stop harassing us about it. It would be like if Hillary and Bill got a divorce halfway through her campaign run," Priscilla explains.
"I understand." I don’t actually understand. But who knows how long this explanation of their scheming and paltry concerns will go on for? I don’t really care.
"The last thing Mark would want," Priscilla starts again, "is for me to run away from San Francisco, and travel the world alone! I’d even have a blog, where I would tell everyone that they need to quit their jobs, marry a nice Jewish boy from Harvard with a budding social network, and then
... 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. . . .
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.
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/
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.