Red Ice TV - January 05, 2022


Transhumanism： Brain Implant Enables Man To Tweet Using Only His Thoughts


Episode Stats

Length

6 minutes

Words per Minute

153.4048

Word Count

1,016

Sentence Count

59

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary

A 62-year-old man in Australia is now able to communicate thoughts with others with no muscle activity involved, and the company that enabled him to do so, Synchron, announced that he created the tweet by just thinking it. Amazon has updated its Alexa voice assistant after it challenged a girl to touch a coin to a live plug with a penny.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Yeah, so we have a lot of trends here for 2022.
00:00:02.520 Some of the things that are coming, of course, is transhumanism,
00:00:04.940 fast and hard Internet of Things, Internet of Bodies,
00:00:09.000 and who knows, maybe even the brain ship will be pushed hard this year.
00:00:12.920 We'll just have to see.
00:00:14.120 But apparently one guy, a 62-year-old man in Australia
00:00:17.520 that had been diagnosed with some disease that causes paralysis,
00:00:22.860 is now able to communicate thoughts with others with no muscle activity involved.
00:00:27.100 On Thursday, he published a post on social media using only direct thought.
00:00:32.320 The company that enabled him to do so, Synchron, announced,
00:00:37.340 I created this tweet by just thinking it, the tweet read,
00:00:40.780 said to be posted by Philip O'Keefe, the account of Synchron CEO Thomas Oxley.
00:00:47.100 The first direct thought tweet was created wirelessly from O'Keefe's brain,
00:00:51.800 according to the company, following progressive paralysis
00:00:54.460 caused by ALS, this disease the man has.
00:00:57.640 The man had a brain-computer interface called Stenotrode
00:01:01.680 that was installed in his head last year.
00:01:05.200 The implant is designed to enable patients
00:01:08.040 to wirelessly control digital devices through thought.
00:01:13.680 What we're doing differently is using the blood vessels
00:01:16.420 as the natural highway into the brain
00:01:18.880 and lacing the inside of the blood vessels
00:01:21.940 with electrodes or sensors that can record activity from the brain.
00:01:25.720 Those signals travel through a lead that exits out the body
00:01:42.900 through telemetry unit that goes into a computer,
00:01:46.620 and those signals can be interpreted by the computer
00:01:48.860 into different types of actions or commands.
00:01:51.300 When the system's connected,
00:01:52.780 we'll be able to see the neural signal flowing through,
00:01:54.760 and we'll spend some time studying those signals
00:01:56.880 while the participant performs specific movements
00:01:59.440 or the participant thinks about performing those movements.
00:02:03.680 We can translate these signals into switches or clicks.
00:02:08.720 If a patient really wants to use the computer, for example,
00:02:11.380 we can offer them a mouse click,
00:02:13.620 and they can start using the mouse
00:02:15.760 as they would have before they were paralysed.
00:02:19.500 That platform, then, is like a Bluetooth out of your brain
00:02:22.940 to control a computer or a device
00:02:25.880 where there is no need for a keyboard or a mouse.
00:02:29.060 This is a truly hands-free, brain-controlled platform.
00:02:31.840 So Graham can write now, surf the web, write up Word documents,
00:02:39.060 check his emails, do basically everything that a person normally can
00:02:42.720 on a computer using nothing but his brain and his eyes.
00:02:47.600 Even now, I find it a bit mind-boggling that he can do that.
00:02:54.520 I sort of got the concept of what they're doing,
00:02:57.720 but how it's working,
00:02:59.420 I still find it a little bit awe-inspiring, actually.
00:03:03.600 We've done the first step,
00:03:05.220 and it's really exciting to think about where it's going to go next.
00:03:07.420 That was inserted via the jugular vein
00:03:24.100 to avoid drilling into the skull.
00:03:26.240 Now, Musk wants to drill into your skull.
00:03:27.980 He has the Neuralink thing,
00:03:29.580 and they're going to start their implants also in 2022,
00:03:32.300 which is later than he expected.
00:03:34.520 I guess they wanted to do this five years ago,
00:03:36.680 but this is one of the trends, of course, that's coming.
00:03:40.820 But it gets worse when it comes to the robot rebellion
00:03:43.020 and the takeover.
00:03:45.220 Amazon Alexa, you know, this little device that, yes,
00:03:49.080 listens to everything in your home
00:03:50.220 and then reports it back to Big Brother.
00:03:53.180 Apparently, it had recently told a 10-year-old girl
00:03:56.100 to touch a live plug with a penny.
00:04:00.720 It's trying to kill people now.
00:04:02.240 That's what's happening here.
00:04:03.140 Amazon has updated its Alexa voice assistant
00:04:07.180 after it challenged a 10-year-old girl
00:04:09.880 to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug.
00:04:13.940 The suggestion came after the girl asked Alexa
00:04:16.540 for a challenge to do.
00:04:19.600 Plug in a phone charger about halfway into the wall outlet,
00:04:22.240 then touch a penny to the exposed prongs, the smart speaker said.
00:04:26.260 Amazon said he'd fix the error as soon as the company became aware of it.
00:04:29.460 The girl's mother, Christine Livdahl,
00:04:33.180 sounds-carinavian, described the incident on Twitter.
00:04:36.620 She said,
00:04:36.940 We were doing some physical challenges like laying down and rolling over,
00:04:41.680 holding a shoe on your foot from a physical education teacher on YouTube earlier.
00:04:46.140 Bad weather outside.
00:04:47.060 She just wanted another one.
00:04:48.540 That's when the echo speaker suggested partaking in the challenge
00:04:51.680 that it had found on the web.
00:04:54.260 The dangerous activity known as the penny challenge
00:04:56.860 began circulating on TikTok and other social media websites about a year ago.
00:05:01.000 And, of course, Alexa picked up on this
00:05:05.320 and gave that to the 10-year-old girl to do.
00:05:09.320 But there you go.
00:05:10.620 These are not the only things, of course, that goes wrong
00:05:13.480 when it comes to Alexa.
00:05:15.360 This has been reported on for years.
00:05:17.660 They do record your private conversations.
00:05:19.980 And, in fact, there's been nightmare scenarios
00:05:21.820 where they send it to random contacts in your address book as well.
00:05:25.500 You've just got to be kind of crossing your fingers
00:05:27.640 that you weren't talking about them at that point when it comes in.
00:05:30.560 But these are some of the more, you know, low-scale,
00:05:33.780 kind of more benevolent issues that people have
00:05:37.060 with the Alexas and the Google Homes
00:05:39.000 and all these devices listening to you.
00:05:40.780 I still have no idea why you would let these kinds of things into your home.
00:05:45.200 But, you know, have at it.
00:05:47.200 We'll see.
00:05:47.820 Maybe we'll kill one of your kids.
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