Synthetic Brain Intelligence (SBI) is different than Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Brain Computer Interface (BCI).

Neuromorphic technologies-computers or technology designed and engineered to mirror the structure and function of the human brain-can learn and adapt in real time continuously, functioning with power efficiency and proving to be cost effective. It’s the latest step toward merging humans and machines.

SBI is distinct from brain-computer interface (BCI) BCI doesn’t involve whole organisms. It’s a brain implant that allows users to interact with a computer or external instrument with their thoughts. BCIs allow you to control an application or a device using only your mind. It is direct communication between the brain’s own electrical energy and an external device via the implant. The implant is placed in sensitive brain tissue. This was first done on humans in the 1990s

A number of companies in addition to Elon Musk’s Neurolink, including Synchron,Precision Neuroscience, and labs in the CCP, are already conducting human trials. This broad new field of bioelectronics is predicted to be quite lucrative in the years to come.

“Neuralink involves an implant with over 1,000 electrodes on 64 threads, each thinner than a human hair, that record and transmit patients’ thoughts to an app. 

The app then decodes the brain signals and controls a computer, clicking as if using a mouse or creating text, like if the user were typing. This allows patients with paralysis or neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) to communicate.

However, its applications go beyond mere rehabilitation; Neuralink envisions a future where thought becomes the ultimate interface, empowering people to control devices, navigate virtual worlds, and even augment their cognitive abilities.

Neuralink, uses tiny electrodes on threads that are one-fifth the thickness of a human hair, combining conductive metals with polyamide, a type of plastic. Precision Neuroscience also utilizes thousands of minuscule electrodes embedded in a flexible film that conforms to the surface of the brain. The miniaturization of materials used in the electrodes is a unique challenge because they must have the ability to efficiently transfer electrical charge to biological tissues while maintaining softness, flexibility, and biocompatibility”.

Concerns arising over this technology include issues of accountability and responsibility, such as cases which show that BCI influence overrides free will and control over the subject/patient’s actions, inaccurate translation of cognitive intentions, personality changes resulting from deep-brain stimulation, and the blurring of the line between human and machine.

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