{"id":104860,"date":"2020-04-06T13:42:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T20:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/these-brain-boosting-devices-could-give-us-intelligence-superpowers"},"modified":"2020-04-06T13:42:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T20:42:44","slug":"these-brain-boosting-devices-could-give-us-intelligence-superpowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/these-brain-boosting-devices-could-give-us-intelligence-superpowers","title":{"rendered":"These brain-boosting devices could give us intelligence superpowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-brain-boosting-devices-could-give-us-intelligence-superpowers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2017<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The era of merging our minds with technology has begun. Already, we can hack the brain to treat diseases such as Parkinson\u2019s or help paralyzed people move again. But what if you could install a chip in your head that would not only fix any health issues, but could amp up your brainpower \u2014 would you remember every word said during a meeting, finish crossword puzzles faster, drive better thanks to enhanced senses, or pick up a new language before your next trip?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the future envisioned by Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO who recently announced Neuralink, a new company dedicated to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/3\/27\/15077864\/elon-musk-neuralink-brain-computer-interface-ai-cyborgs\">blending human brains with computers<\/a>. In Musk\u2019s view, we\u2019ll have to keep pace with ever-smarter artificial intelligence by implanting a \u201cneural lace,\u201d or <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/943206\/tesla-and-spacex-ceo-elon-musks-next-company-wants-to-put-tiny-electrodes-in-our-brains-called-neural-lace-so-we-can-survive-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence\/\">sci-fi inspired machine interface<\/a> that will make us smarter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder any rate of advancement in AI, we will be left behind by a lot,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/03\/elon-musks-neural-lace-really-look-like\/\">Musk said<\/a> last year. \u201cThe benign situation with ultra-intelligent AI is that we would be so far below in intelligence we\u2019d be like a pet, or a house cat.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2017 The era of merging our minds with technology has begun. Already, we can hack the brain to treat diseases such as Parkinson\u2019s or help paralyzed people move again. But what if you could install a chip in your head that would not only fix any health issues, but could amp up your brainpower [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2019,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-elon-musk","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}