I think that the AI here is going to have to not just fill in the blanks but convert to a whole new intermediary format. I say this because there are lots of people who despite from the outside appearing normal don’t even see images. A less extreme example would be the people who do and don’t subvocalise whilst reading—I know that when I’m stuck in the middle of a novel it’s basically just a movie playing in my head, there’s no conscious spelling out of the words, but for other people there is a narrator. Because of this the large differences between internal brain formats will necessitate some kind of common format as an intermediary.
Personally I’m more interested in seeing (ethics aside) what happens when you give this to a child. If you stick a direct feed to a computer+internet into someones brain whilst it’s still forming, I would not be surprised if what comes out the other end is quite unlike a regular human. The base model at the moment already has a 6 axis imu+compass+barometer—it would not surprise me if that information just got fused into that persons regular experience like those compass belts people have started wearing.
I think that the AI here is going to have to not just fill in the blanks but convert to a whole new intermediary format. I say this because there are lots of people who despite from the outside appearing normal don’t even see images. A less extreme example would be the people who do and don’t subvocalise whilst reading—I know that when I’m stuck in the middle of a novel it’s basically just a movie playing in my head, there’s no conscious spelling out of the words, but for other people there is a narrator. Because of this the large differences between internal brain formats will necessitate some kind of common format as an intermediary.
Personally I’m more interested in seeing (ethics aside) what happens when you give this to a child. If you stick a direct feed to a computer+internet into someones brain whilst it’s still forming, I would not be surprised if what comes out the other end is quite unlike a regular human. The base model at the moment already has a 6 axis imu+compass+barometer—it would not surprise me if that information just got fused into that persons regular experience like those compass belts people have started wearing.
It does seem like a reasonable analogy that the Neuralink could be like a “sixth sense” or an extra (very complex) muscle.