Connect a stack style memory register to a pair of peripheral neurons, so that the neurons can send three separable nerve signals (push one, push zero, pop) and receive two separable inputs from the machine (pop one, pop zero)
Leave it connected for an extended period of time so that neuroplasticity can adapt to having a sense organ that is a low metabolic cost, fast binary storage device, might be worth trying a lot of double n back so the body adapts to using the new organ, and as a bonus, you’ll get quantitative proof if it works.
Congrats, you’re a superintelligence.
If I remember correctly, something like this was done in a rat and measurably improved water maze performance.
Neuralink has described the bandwidth they’re seeking as similar to the corpus callosum. I don’t think that’s actually necessary to achieve superhuman results. The brain is good at adding new sense organs (see research on vibrating belts, cameras attached to tongues, whiskers on finger etc). I presume that the brain is also good at linking to ‘more brain’. So, a low bandwidth interface, possibly only a few peripheral nerves, to either a von neumann architecture like the one I described above (and that memory interface could potentially also be connected to other hardware that could push and pop bits), or a computer simulation of neurons like the one in the linked paper is probably something that would be useful.
If you’re using an extremely loose definition of ‘AI superintelligence’, namely ‘a natural intelligence, physically connected to a machine that achieves otherwise unattainable performance in some dimension of intelligence’, such as say a large improvement in ‘digit span’, I believe that such a thing is possible today using extant technology.
In a more general sense, how much artificial augmentation of a ‘natural general intelligence’ is required before it qualifies as an AGI?
Connect a stack style memory register to a pair of peripheral neurons, so that the neurons can send three separable nerve signals (push one, push zero, pop) and receive two separable inputs from the machine (pop one, pop zero)
Leave it connected for an extended period of time so that neuroplasticity can adapt to having a sense organ that is a low metabolic cost, fast binary storage device, might be worth trying a lot of double n back so the body adapts to using the new organ, and as a bonus, you’ll get quantitative proof if it works.
Congrats, you’re a superintelligence.
If I remember correctly, something like this was done in a rat and measurably improved water maze performance.
Now this is anti-inductive and risky! Noted...
Any chance you could link to the study about augmented rats?
I went looking and couldn’t find it, but here’s something newer and probably more useful: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-58831-9
Neuralink has described the bandwidth they’re seeking as similar to the corpus callosum. I don’t think that’s actually necessary to achieve superhuman results. The brain is good at adding new sense organs (see research on vibrating belts, cameras attached to tongues, whiskers on finger etc). I presume that the brain is also good at linking to ‘more brain’. So, a low bandwidth interface, possibly only a few peripheral nerves, to either a von neumann architecture like the one I described above (and that memory interface could potentially also be connected to other hardware that could push and pop bits), or a computer simulation of neurons like the one in the linked paper is probably something that would be useful.
If you’re using an extremely loose definition of ‘AI superintelligence’, namely ‘a natural intelligence, physically connected to a machine that achieves otherwise unattainable performance in some dimension of intelligence’, such as say a large improvement in ‘digit span’, I believe that such a thing is possible today using extant technology.
In a more general sense, how much artificial augmentation of a ‘natural general intelligence’ is required before it qualifies as an AGI?