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Hi everyone, and welcome back to Geek Time. 欢迎回来【极客时间】. Hi, Brad.
Hey, lulu, how's it going?
It's going. So What are we gonna talk about today?
Have you heard of brain chipping?
Brain chipping. It doesn't mean chipping your brain. It means linking your brain to a chip?
Yeah, putting a computer chip in your brain and connecting the two.
好像叫大脑芯片.
I don't think this is... as an idea, as a concept, this is not new. I'm definitely seeing them in sci-fi films or TV shows or books.
Oh yeah. It's not a new idea, but it's something that's actually been in the news a lot lately because of Neuralink and they're trying to actually brain chips into real life.
Elon Musk again, Musk的公司 Neuralink, 公司之一, 就在做 brain chip的尝试, 把它从科幻变成现实.
So that brings a lot of controversy, a lot of discussion and debates. This is what we're gonna explore in this and the next episode.
So when you say brain chip like you said it literally is connecting a computer chip to your brain. Like how... through some sort of interface? I'm trying to imagine that.
So your brain has a lot of nerve connections and a lot of tissue that connect it to your body. Doctors have started to figure out how to connect something to your brain using those connections.
When you think about it, your eye is connected to your brain and they're starting to develop ways to connect artificial eyes that should be able to see things. It's all just a matter of finding a way to interface a chip with using an electrical pulse that goes into your brain and then sending that signal back to the chip.
I see. So not necessarily implantation.
Yeah, implantation. So in order for it to connect to your brain, you would probably have to actually implant it. You're doing tests... Yeah, implanting that into your brain.
I see, I see.
And you mentioned doctors, so I'm assuming this whole idea, this whole progress initially, at least was aiming to solve some medical problems?
Yeah. There's a lot of issues that stem from issues with your brain, and people have Alzheimer's or they have other memory issues that might benefit from use of these devices.
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