This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
It's not like we don't know the playbook already.
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-recaptcha-play-services-requirement-3664806/
Now you know brain implants will be used as an authentication system, to protect the children, prevent spam, and maybe they'll manage to add something about terrorism in the justification.
And your employment history, financial status, known associates, voter record, you get the idea.
"You'll eventually give in" Tells you everything you need to know about the power of large tech companies in the US .
We have the money and the power to force this technology in to the mainstream. Tech companies know that Congress is way too old, way too corrupt, and way too slow to really do anything about regulating stuff like this in a reasonable time frame. They have no real barriers and the heads of these companies don't give a shit about the user as long as they pay their monthly subscription.
knows you'll give in eventually
No, I bloody will not.
Yeah, I resisted mobile phones until about 1999, and didn't get a "smartphone" until 2014. I was quite the Luddite.
I still don't play mobile games. I thought it was going to be a great opportunity but all the games sucked and I didn't like the interface.
I run hot and cold... I liked the BTD series for a while - it has a good phone interface IMO as well as "easy to multitask" play, unlike something like StarCraft that sucks you in and demands 110% of your attention. However, I haven't played it in years, I was just tempted to reload it tonight, and I did, and... it just doesn't do anything for me anymore.
So creeps like Zuck can upload their LLM conscience into my brain? No thank you.
... Actually, that would make a great horror movie.
I don't trust these ghouls to pour me a glass of water, they won't get anywhere near my body
The choice between the chip and a bullet?
Dont expect everyone to sit idly by for either option.
We will all carry our "papers" around in our bodies.
could we just like - tactically nuke them?
No need, at least not for several decades. The tech described in the article is millions of times more capable than current working experimental systems. Possible future? yes. Possible within 100 years? maybe. Kind of on the order of a self-sufficient expanding Mars colony of human settlers.
I will never ever.. hahaha okay you rascal, ya got me! Now get over here and stick that junk in my head-meat haha
Can't wait for adverts for the ass blaster 9000® to be beamed directly into my frontal lobe without my consent.
If they can blast in the ads, the need for physical toys pretty much goes away...
I'd take it
Another tech headline, another thing that would have sounded pretty cool 20-30 years ago but today sounds like an absolute nightmare to stay FAR away from. And this one more than most!
The only way I would ever even consider this is if the firmware was open source and the software to interact with it was open source and it had no direct connection to any sort of network at all and required an external device that I could turn off or on to connect to it an external network. Oh, and the hardware would need to be open source as well.
Yeah, keep fighting the good fight. Keep demanding transparency, accountability, auditability by ANYONE at ANY TIME in ANY DEPTH. Maybe some day. https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tiltuesday/maybemonday.html
It will be proprietary and cloud based, when you skip a payment you collapse on the floor until a family member signs up for extended warranty.
That's a hell of a faustian bargain, good luck with that.
I wouldn't trust these assholes with a rabid viper let alone my own brain
A report in Politico details a TED talk in Vancouver last month
Oh so it's just rambling musings of some self-important CEO rather than any actual declaration of intent.
There are some good TED talks but a lot of them are just hot air.
I’ve been evangelising for smart glasses for years. But even if they get the functionality I’ve been hoping for I’m still not going to get them, because i don’t want every woman i meet to think I’m secretly recording her tits
There’s no way I’m letting Elon musk do brain surgery on me to harvest my thoughts
What functionality are you looking for? Most I can think of is gimmicky at best.
Would be interested even in gimmicky use cases.
My hard of hearing ass wants subtitles
Oh, plenty of what i want is gimmicky. GIVE ME A HUD!
But i can think of things like overlaying arrows on the environment when getting walking directions, setting reminders by seeing things/people, being able to fully view 3d objects when doing things like identifying something (say a flower you’ve seen) by image
Yeah this usual stuff would be nice but the trade off with privacy and surveillance is not worth the risk IMO. :(
I want a health bar.
People forget about the other genders when it comes to the issues with smart glasses. And kids. Where is the "for the safety of our children" mob, when we need one?
Where is the "for the safety of our children" mob, when we need one?
Busy being weaponized against minorities again
So many people are already functionally hooked up, even if it is happening through their eyes and not a direct wire. Prove me wrong, everybody: don’t touch any of your devices for a week. It’s nigh unthinkable now but I remember times when the internet didn’t exist, cell phones didn’t exist, I had no cable TV, no game console, and would only turn on my little black and white Mac to write a paper for school. We listened to music a lot, socialized in person, smoked a lot of… various things, had a lot of sex. It’s a rather poor trade we’ve made if you ask me.
There are people with functioning brain implants helping the blind to see, the deaf to hear, etc.
They don't work nearly as well as the evolutionary naturally grown versions, they have some nasty technical problems, but they do work after a fashion.
The underlying assumption is "exponentially growing scientific knowledge and technical capability" will turn these dreams real - and it will, for some very small subset of what is being dreamed. I don't think a practical "everybody gets one" smartphone in the brain is coming in the next 100 years, but who knows?
I yearn to go back to the days when a 2 minute lapse in focus/interest didn't subconsciously send me reaching for my phone.
They've got drugs for that...
Yea. I have tried a few. But they either don't work for me. Or the come down at the end of the day leaves me unable to do anything.
Over my dead body.
Also, this is laughable:
We’re on the cusp of the next major transition, the merger of humans and AI.
These guys don't even have true AI yet, just a text predictor on steroids that frequently hallucinates and gets things wrong.
High on their own supply. Common human weakness, fuck I wish it weren't.
The cope is really deep in the tech sector. Way too many imbeciles who think they're geniuses and too much VC to throw around.
Too bad I can't trust either the competence or intent of those with resources to create brain chips. Sorry teenaged me that desperately wanted true VR, but I'll probably decline it even if it becomes a thing.
I'll note here that VR goggles were "a thing" 10+ years ago, fast forward to today and they still pretty much suck, like they did back then. Yeah, marginal specs improvements, but the core weaknesses (limited FOV, lower than quality screen resolution, heavy) still apply.
And the fundamental weaknesses, like the disconnect between the game world you're playing in and the physical world your body needs to play from. You can still run into things in the physical world and pass through things in the virtual world. No physical touch interaction at all from the VR world back to ours, other than vibrations. Still limited by gravity as well as the input devices being used. Can't really experience non-human shaped things. Hell, even driving around in a vehicle, something VR is relatively good at, isn't the same because you don't feel the acceleration and g-forces.
Games like beat saber are the only ones it's strong at, though I'm sure I've done many cuts that would have taken my arm or fatally wounded my legs.
I don't think I would even trust an open source version that I fully control. Either it would be a pain in the ass to maintain it or it would eventually have some major vuln discovered and lead to people being hacked. Too risky.
