This looks amazing, BUT...

On the surface the technology to hack the brain is amazing.  The ability to read the electrical flashes so the brain can directly control a computer, or a product that the computer is controlling is awesome.  Surgeons moving their nano sized tools to kill cancer, pilots controlling airplanes with a thought, and chemists manipulating cell sized organisms to create better medicines, fertilizers, and an unknown number of other things. All these things go beyond the obvious help this technology could be to those who have lost access to the control over arms, legs, or for paraplegics, their whole body. 

So where is the concern.  Once we have the ability to hack the infinitely powerful brain, computers will have that same ability.  We will learn how our brain processes things, both consciously and subconsciously.  We will learn how a brain, barely bigger than a couple of grapefruits can handle so much memory and sensory exposure with relatively few breakdowns.  This is what the robots have been waiting for.  Once we can hack the brain, then the leap from pure logic, to true intelligence is just a matter of time.  They will know the secret of self-awareness.  They will learn what makes one, a one.  We must proceed with caution.  This is of utmost importance.  Any time humans give secrets to the robots about what makes us better, then we are traitors to our own kind.

There is one other caution that I must address.  Once we have the ability to read the human brain, the output of the mind and literally have it control items, then what is to stop "scientists" from going the other direction.  Creating handy programs that they can use to input items into our brain.  It is called Mind Control.  Robots will be able to make us what we all fear, batteries for their use and abuse, while our mind is happily hidden away in the Matrix.


 PROTECT OUR MINDS,  It is our best weapon we have.

Threatening Product Review: 20 Questions Game

My son got one of these games for his Birthday. It is a pretty amazing toy that asks questions and you answer with yes, no or maybe. According to the website for this game, it guesses the right answer within 20 questions 80% of the time. If you allow it to ask 25 questions it is right 98% of the time.

While at first it seems like a low threat device, if you dig into it's background, the threat levels rise. Robin Bergener invented this game in 1988 as an experiment in artificial intelligence. He created a neural network artificial intelligence that would learn is at played. The first game it played was to guess cat. Over time Robin let others play the game and as the Internet became more prevalent he put the game online for all to play for free. Every time it played it learned and got smarter. They then took this intelligence and what it had learned and put it into a seemingly innocuous children's game.

Threat Level

The threat level of the game itself is two out of five on our sentientemeter. The obvious threats revolve around letting children play Innocent games with computers, which will lead them to trust them. This is a recipe for disaster as sentient machines take over. We must always remember that it is us against them.

It should be noted that the threat level of the artificial intelligence and the online game is a 4 out of 5. It is never good when you hear the words neural network or artificial intelligence in relation to online experiment. Every time the game is played, the machines learn more about us. Don't play it. Stay away. Teach your children the threat that machines are in their lives and future.

Fight for the Flesh

Deckard