[ExI] Brain prosthetic startup

Anders Sandberg anders at aleph.se
Wed Aug 17 07:41:15 UTC 2016


Ted Berger is commercializing the research on the hippcaompus chip:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/bionics/new-startup-aims-to-commercialize-a-brain-prosthetic-to-improve-memory
http://kernel.co/

This is the first brain prosthetic - normal deep brain stimulation just 
sends signals into the brain in the right spot to balance a malfunction 
crudely, but this aims at performing a function. And yes, it can be used 
for enhancement:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3919468/

-- 
Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University




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