implantable devices

Big Tech sees neurotechnology as the next AI frontier

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Neurotechnology using artificial intelligence opens up new possibilities in healthcare that did not exist before. Companies and researchers have been exploring implantable devices that interpret signals in the brain and translate them into words or physical commands for decades. The technology isn’t new, but now artificial intelligence is accelerating progress, allowing people affected by debilitating … Read more

In a future with more ‘mind reading’, thanks to neurotechnology, we may have to reconsider freedom of thought

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Socrates, the ancient Greek philosopher, never wrote things down. He warned that writing undermines memory – that it is nothing more than a memory of a previous thought. Compared to people who discuss and debate, readers will be “hearers of many things and have learned nothing; they will appear omniscient and will generally know nothing.” … Read more