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


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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