[ExI] A step from humanoid to cyborg

[Anders Sandberg]

This is very cool. Original article: 
http://iopscience.iop.org/1741-2552/9/5/056012
http://iopscience.iop.org/1741-2552/9/5/056012/pdf/1741-2552_9_5_056012.pdf

Not the most advanced control (it is a fairly well-defined and 
understood task with a fairly simple representation), but together with 
the recent reports on Ted Berger's hippocampal prosthetic it is starting 
to make me feel good about the future of neural functional prosthetics. 
Nice to see that the cortical column model of the DMS task holds up. But 
what we really need is a cheaper, easier and safer way of getting 
stimulation into the right spots.

I bet newspapers will spin this into "chip improves decision-making".

-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Faculty of Philosophy
Oxford University