Good question! This feeds into another important question: Whether Neuralink (and brain-computer interfaces more generally) will be strategically relevant.
Currently I am skeptical that there is anything super powerful that can be done without decades of training and experimentation. That said, here are some ideas:
--Connect people to their computers so they can type, dictate, use mouse, etc. at the speed of thought, without needing to use their hands.
--People whose job involves monitoring a complex system (e.g. for suspicious activity) can have the variables of that system plugged directly into their brain rather than displayed on a screen. Perhaps with training this could allow them to monitor more complex systems more effectively.
--Connect people to the internet + GPT-4-powered personal assistants so that they can think questions and have the answers immediately beamed back into their minds. Might be powerful in situations where you don’t have your laptop or phone handy, e.g. in face-to-face conversation with another human.
--Connect people to each other, so that they can share concepts directly rather than through the medium of language. (This is the only idea so far that seems likely to be powerful/relevant, but it’s the least likely to actually happen.)
Good question! This feeds into another important question: Whether Neuralink (and brain-computer interfaces more generally) will be strategically relevant.
Currently I am skeptical that there is anything super powerful that can be done without decades of training and experimentation. That said, here are some ideas:
--Connect people to their computers so they can type, dictate, use mouse, etc. at the speed of thought, without needing to use their hands.
--People whose job involves monitoring a complex system (e.g. for suspicious activity) can have the variables of that system plugged directly into their brain rather than displayed on a screen. Perhaps with training this could allow them to monitor more complex systems more effectively.
--Connect people to the internet + GPT-4-powered personal assistants so that they can think questions and have the answers immediately beamed back into their minds. Might be powerful in situations where you don’t have your laptop or phone handy, e.g. in face-to-face conversation with another human.
--Connect people to each other, so that they can share concepts directly rather than through the medium of language. (This is the only idea so far that seems likely to be powerful/relevant, but it’s the least likely to actually happen.)