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WEAK BIASES ACCUMULATE. “A well-known property of cultural evolution is that, under a wide range of circumstances, weak inductive biases acting on learning can have strong effects in the cultural system as the effects of those biases accumulate.” http://www.pnas.org/content/113/16/4530.full View in LinkedIn

MENIAL ROBOTS. "In September, 11 new members of staff are scheduled to start work at Tokyo's Haneda International Airport. The latest additions to the workforce will be tasked with menial jobs, such as cleaning the concourse and transporting luggage, but they are unlikely to complain about their responsibilities as they are robots." (2015). https://lnkd.in/d_bSTDE View in LinkedIn

RESTORE AND AUGMENT. "Future brain-machine interfaces will transform medicine, technology and society. The coarse neural stimulators currently used to treat illnesses ranging from deafness to Parkinson’s disease will be replaced by a new generation of devices that both sense and stimulate the human nervous system, interacting with the brain using its native code." https://lnkd.in/du8b2eF View in LinkedIn

QUADRIPLEGIC BRAIN IMPLANT. "In 2012 quadriplegic Jan Scheuermann had two electrode arrays implanted in her brain’s left motor cortex. Within a week, she could use the implant to move a prosthetic arm in all three dimensions, and move its wrist in an additional four. That was good enough for her to use it to feed herself with the arm, and good enough to make her a national celebrity." https://lnkd.in/dsHqDJA View in LinkedIn

AVATAR. "Researchers in Japan are using a brain-machine interface to control the actions of a humanoid robot. The goal is to allow people "to feel embodied in the body of a humanoid robot." By focusing his attention, he can induce actions, which are translated from his brain activity into robotic motion." https://lnkd.in/dhxBk2N View in LinkedIn

HUMAN-ROBOT INTERFACE. "Honda has taken some very significant steps into what could be an absolute revolution in human-computer interface...has demonstrated a Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) that enables a user to control an ASIMO robot using nothing more than thought. Wearing a headset containing both electroencephalography (EEG) and near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) sensors, the user simply imagines moving either his right hand, left hand, tongue or feet - and ASIMO makes a corresponding movement." https://lnkd.in/deY-9dW View in LinkedIn

FRESH OUT. “Machine translates brainwaves into sentences. Scientists have taken a step forward in their ability to decode what a person is saying just by looking at their brainwaves when they speak. They trained algorithms to transfer the brain patterns into sentences in real-time and with word error rates as low as 3%. Previously, these so-called "brain-machine interfaces" have had limited success in decoding neural activity.” https://lnkd.in/dd6-tBm View in LinkedIn

ELON MUSK’S LACE "seems to be a mesh that would allow such AI to work symbiotically with the human brain. Signals will be picked up and transmitted wirelessly, but without any interference of natural neurological processes. Essentially, making it a digital brain upgrade. Imagine writing and sending texts just using your thoughts.” https://lnkd.in/dB6Z8tN View in LinkedIn

"DARPA Cortical Modem connects brain directly to computer for 'electronic telepathy and telekinesis'. Phillip Alvelda, chief of DARPA's Biological Technologies, told the conference how the device could replace all virtual reality glasses, such as the Oculus Rift, by bypassing the visual sensory system entirely." http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/darpa-cortical-modem-connects-brain-directly-computer-electronic-telepathy-telekinesis-1488476 View in LinkedIn

EMOTIONAL CONTROL. "A $70 million program will try to develop brain implants able to regulate emotions in the mentally ill. Now, as part of a sweeping $70 million program funded by the U.S. military, Carmena has a new goal: to use brain implants to read, and then control, the emotions of mentally ill people." http://www.technologyreview.com/news/527561/military-funds-brain-computer-interfaces-to-control-feelings/ View in LinkedIn