{"id":118209,"date":"2021-01-08T22:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T06:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/humans-could-merge-with-ai-through-this-specialized-polymer"},"modified":"2021-01-08T22:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T06:22:40","slug":"humans-could-merge-with-ai-through-this-specialized-polymer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/humans-could-merge-with-ai-through-this-specialized-polymer","title":{"rendered":"Humans could merge with AI through this specialized polymer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humans-could-merge-with-ai-through-this-specialized-polymer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink has a straightforward <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1281121339584114691?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">outlook<\/a> on artificial intelligence: \u201cIf you can\u2019t beat em, join em.\u201d The company means that quite literally \u2014 it\u2019s building a device that aims to connect our brains with electronics, which would enable us, in theory, to control computers with our thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>But how? What material would companies like Neuralink use to connect electronics with human tissue?<\/p>\n<p>One potential solution was recently revealed at the American Chemical Society\u2019s Fall 2020 Virtual Meeting &amp; Expo. A team of researchers from the University of Delaware presented a new biocompatible polymer coating that could help devices better fuse with the brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink has a straightforward outlook on artificial intelligence: \u201cIf you can\u2019t beat em, join em.\u201d The company means that quite literally \u2014 it\u2019s building a device that aims to connect our brains with electronics, which would enable us, in theory, to control computers with our thoughts. But how? What material would companies like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2019,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118209","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}