We see pretty significant changes in ability of humans when their brain volume changes only a bit. I think if you can 10x the effective brain volume, even if the additional ‘regions’ are of lower quality, you should expect some dramatic effects. My guess is that if it works at all, you get at least 7 SDs of sudden improvement over a month or so of adaptation, maybe more.
As I explained, I think evidence from the human connectome shows that bandwidth is not an issue. We should be able to supply plenty of bandwidth.
I continue to find it strange that you are so convinced that computer simulations of neurons would be insufficient to provide benefit. I’d definitely recommend that before trying to network animal brains to a human. In that case, you can do quite a lot of experimentation with a lot of different neuronal models and machine learning models as possible boosters for just a single human. It’s so easy to change what program the computer is running, and how much compute you have hooked up. Seems to me you should prove that this doesn’t work before even considering going the animal brain route. I’m confident that no existing research has attempted anything like this, so we have no empirical evidence to show that it wouldn’t work. Again, even if each simulated cortical column is only 1% as effective (which seems like a substantial underestimate to me), we’d be able to use enough compute that we could easily simulate 1000x extra.
Have you watched videos of the first neuralink patient using a computer? He has great cursor control, substantially better than previous implants have been able to deliver. I think this is strong evidence that the implant tech is at acceptable performance level.
We see pretty significant changes in ability of humans when their brain volume changes only a bit. I think if you can 10x the effective brain volume, even if the additional ‘regions’ are of lower quality, you should expect some dramatic effects. My guess is that if it works at all, you get at least 7 SDs of sudden improvement over a month or so of adaptation, maybe more.
As I explained, I think evidence from the human connectome shows that bandwidth is not an issue. We should be able to supply plenty of bandwidth.
I continue to find it strange that you are so convinced that computer simulations of neurons would be insufficient to provide benefit. I’d definitely recommend that before trying to network animal brains to a human. In that case, you can do quite a lot of experimentation with a lot of different neuronal models and machine learning models as possible boosters for just a single human. It’s so easy to change what program the computer is running, and how much compute you have hooked up. Seems to me you should prove that this doesn’t work before even considering going the animal brain route. I’m confident that no existing research has attempted anything like this, so we have no empirical evidence to show that it wouldn’t work. Again, even if each simulated cortical column is only 1% as effective (which seems like a substantial underestimate to me), we’d be able to use enough compute that we could easily simulate 1000x extra.
Have you watched videos of the first neuralink patient using a computer? He has great cursor control, substantially better than previous implants have been able to deliver. I think this is strong evidence that the implant tech is at acceptable performance level.