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Elon Musk recruits quadriplegia subjects for brain-computer interface

Elon Musk, the Tesla, X and SpaceX owner, 52, set up Neuralink to connect human brains to computers and to test the technology on people with paralysis.  A robot will help implant a BCI (brain-computer interface), which will let them control a computer cursor, or type, using thoughts alone.

Neuralink’s study will see a robot surgically place 64 flexible threads – which are thinner than a human hair ¬– on to a part of the brain that controlled “movement intention”.  The wires will allow Neuralink’s experimental implant, powered by a battery that can be charged wirelessly, to record and transmit brain signals wirelessly to an app that decodes how the person intends to move.

The company says people may qualify for the trial if they have quadriplegia due to injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Elon’s company faces rivals including Blackrock Neurotech, which implanted its first of many BCIs in 2004.

Two separate recent studies in the US saw implants used to monitor brain activity when a person tried to speak, which could then be decoded to help them communicate.

Dr Adrien Rapeaux, a research associate in the Neural Interfaces Lab at Imperial College London, told the BBC: “Neuralink no doubt has an advantage in terms of implantation”, as their procedure was robotically assisted.

But Dr Rapeaux – who is also a co-founder of a neural implant start-up Mintneuro – said it wasn’t clear how their method for converting brain signals into useful actions would do better than that used by the likes of Blackrock Neurotech.

According to “bio-conservatives”, the “Neuralink”‘ brain implant suppresses the frontier between natural/artificial, human/machine, living/no-living. Thus, the merger of human intelligence and artificial intelligence sought by Musk would be as much an artificialization of the human as a humanization of the machine.

Elon Musk’s brain chip startup Neuralink has raised $280 million in a funding round led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Google Ventures, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman months after securing approval for its first in-human clinical trial. Musk’s companies had received an estimated $4.9 billion in government support by 2015, and they’ve gotten more since even though he pretends to oppose government subsidies when talking to his fanboys and doing his tit talking to the media.  It is not known at what point Elon Musk will market his Neuralink Technology to the Pentagon, but his history suggest if they are buying, he will be selling.

The company did not reveal the valuation at which the funds were raised. In June, Reuters reported that the company was valued at about $5 billion after privately executed stock trades.

“We’re extremely excited about this next chapter at Neuralink,” the company said in a post on Musk-owned social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.  It is not known how proud he is in the number of monkeys Neuralink has killed in trying to rush experiments to get FDA approval for testing his AI “Frankenstein Monster” designs on human subjects.

 

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Copyright board delivers blow to AI Generated Content over photo protections

Courts and the copyright board had already ruled that you can not copyright art, photos, and books created with AI.  You can only copyright the parts of a work that were created by you, the human so the ruling was not shocking.  The U.S. Copyright Office Review Board rejected a request by artist Jason M. Allen for copyright protection for his image “Theatre D’opera Spatial,” which was generated the AI system Midjourney, in a ruling issued earlier this month.

Allen told Reuters earlier this month that the review board’s latest decision was expected, but also expressed confidence that he “will win in the end.”

“If this stands, it is going to create more problems than it solves,” Allen said. “This is going to create new and creative problems for the copyright office in ways we can’t even speculate yet.”

When you publish a book Amazon using KDP, you now have to tell if AI was used to generate graphics and text and how much of it was generated using AI.  People have wondered about these questions added.  They have speculated on why Amazon is doing this.  They have suggested it is because of the Karens out there complaining about AI.  But it probably has to do with the fact you can’t copyright AI work.

Now while you can not copyright an AI work, the copyright office has made clear you can copyright the part that you, a human, created.  Still, people have to wonder the degree that if they use AI, and have to admit to it, to what degree it will bring their copyright into question.

Now all of this has to do with the copyright office.  And reminder: You have never been able to copyright an idea or a trope.  You can only copyright the presentation of that idea and that presentation has to be original enough to be copyrighted.  Also, simply registering a copyright, while evidence in court, does not prevent copyright disputes that ultimately may have to be settled in court, and not by some internet company attempting to play judge and jury.

On the issue of patents:

The USPTO and Federal Circuit’s opinions imply that inventions made by human beings with the assistance of AI are eligible for patent protection. However, there is uncertainty and much debate as to how much AI assistance is too much for patentability.  So the patent office is taking a little bit different stand than the copyright office.

Hearing Wrap Up: Federal Government Use of Artificial Intelligence Poses Promise, Peril

You might notice that this so called hearing has mostly been a whitewash to give big tech and the government cover.  And the regular media is fully participating in that whitewash.  AI is being used in the operation of drones and other weapons.  It is already being used to kill people around the world.  When Elon Musk warns, though he is also whitewashing the issue, that AI could destroy humanity he is just chasing a squirrel up a tree.  AI has already been used by governments to murder people and and it not just some theory that AI is threat to humanity, it is a threat.

AI has already been used by the US with the help of drones to murder 12,000 people, including 400 children.  China has been busy as beavers using AI to terrorize its own citizens.  And the Biden administration with his fake liberal cabinet is now in race with China to do the same here in the US.  Do you seriously think the monster, the threat to humanity that is AI, was not used in destroying the lives of the January 6’rs.

Now all that said, I love using AI to generate graphics, but to pretend that AI in specific, and computer technology in general is not a threat to humanity is retarded.  If our US Congress continues to whitewash this issue or care more about deep fake videos than little children being murdered, they are also a God Damn Threat to humanity.  Hell, Congress may now all be a bunch of AI generated robots.  We wouldn’t know the difference and the fucked up pieces of shit who run the media would not tell us.

 

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Amazon will invest up to $4 billion into OpenAI rival Anthropic

Amazon announced that it will invest up to $4 billion into Anthropic — the AI startup best known for its Claude chatbot and founded by siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei who used to work for OpenAI.

This deal is on the cheap in comparison to the reported $13 billion that Microsoft has so far invested into OpenAI, the biggest name in generative AI technology right now, but that partnership has been going strong since since 2019. Regardless, the deal shows that Amazon is trying to participate in the AI games.  When publishing an eBook in KDP you now have to tell Amazon if you used AI to generate graphics or text and you have to tell them what AI tools that you used.

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One definition of AI is:
The ability of a computer or a robot controlled by a computer to do tasks that are usually done by humans because they require human intelligence and discernment. I would sort of add that it is basically a bot program with the ability to program itself or learn.

What is human intelligence? Mental quality that consists of the abilities to learn from experience, adapt to new situations, understand and handle abstract concepts, and use knowledge to manipulate one’s environment.

To what degree can a computer program mimic human intelligence? That is an open question.

But back to the news item…

Anthropic’s Claude and Claude 2 large language model–based chatbots are similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard in that they can translate text, write code, and answer various questions, but Anthropic says its model is safer and more reliable because it’s guided by a set of principles.  Well, you know, reading that pisses me off.  I was doing images on Bing’s chatbot/AI and for some reason it threatened to ban me.  When I want to do sexy pictures I go to an AI that allows that.  I don’t do that on Bing and I was not breaking any rules.  But hell, I think if the AI had been on a helicopter with me, and I had farted, it would have thrown me out of the helicopter.  Asshole.

“Set of principles.”  What does that mean? Censorship? Turning logic upside down like Social Media has been doing by calling hate love, and calling debate hate.  Hate is not calling someone a poopyhead when they are pissing you off.  Hate is  that someone throwing you out of a helicopter when you are pissing them off.  Hate is actually hurting someone by doing harm to them such as kicking them off of social media, giving them a low social credit score, telling them they can no longer make money on youtube, getting them fired from their job and doing actual harm to someone.  Make no mistake, the haters are not the people who use the n word.  The haters are the people who want to kill you and your family because you use the n word.  Now understand, these upside down crazy people who don’t even understand the concept of true hate are the ones programming AI.   Hate is Burger King trying to force a dick in your mouth, to muzzle you, because it took some woman ten years to wipe the smile off her face to accuse you of some drunken sex shit that neither of you probably even remember clearly–except the smile of course.

There is a reason that Harlan Ellison, James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd, or whoever you want to give most of the credit for the Terminator Movie with, came up with the idea of Skynet. A lot of times when you are writing,, you go into what I call a channeling state where you start picking up on ideas from the metaphysical world whether it is from an angel, a demon, a ghost, or maybe just the computer program that our souls are trapped in. Regardless, the words you are writing have a great deal more meaning than the words that might come out of your conscious brain. And the idea that AI might be dangerous predates when people could so clearly see how insane the people running parts of the computer industry, the social media and not so social media, are.

In the movie, what was Skynet? Skynet was a fictional artificial neural network-based conscious group mind and artificial general superintelligence system that served as the antagonistic force of the Terminator franchise.

In the real world what is skynet? SKYNET is a program by the U.S. National Security Agency that performs machine learning analysis on communications data to extract information about possible terror suspects.  Skynet has murdered (in more loosely defined terms) using operated drones in violation of the space treaty, 12,000 people (including 400 children) that we know about it.  There is no estimate to the amount of economic damage it has done to people who have used the N word or broken some other unsocial social media rule.  We know that some people, who have been banned from making money online or otherwise have been given a gun to put in their mouth,  is because of SKYNET directly or indirectly coaxing UnSocial Social Media to do its evil.

To what degree is Microsoft, Google, and now Amazon helping the government with its SKYNET operations to destroy lives and perhaps even murder people?

  Was the movie Terminator, just a movie?

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Are Electric Cars the old USSR Two Left Shoe Communist Problem Now Hitting USEU, the new USSR

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans’ adoption of electric vehicles is proving to be slow, as relatively few currently own one (4%) or are seriously considering purchasing one (12%). Another 43% of U.S. adults say they might consider buying an electric vehicle in the future, while 41% unequivocally say they would not.

General Motors, actually Obama Motors since the 2008 crash, pretty much a bitch for the government, produced 76,000 EVs in 2023.  Even though there is no consumer market for EVs, they plan to produce 328,000 in 2024.  Whether the consumer wants to buy 2 left shoes or not, they think they can force the consumer to buy their shitty fire hazards. #opinion (and subject to dispute)

They plan to do this even though they can not actually procure the parts for that level of production.  Communist Central Planning at its worst or best depending on how you look at it.  And to support this imaginary production being forced on Bitch Motors (since manufactured 2008 economic crash) they have pushed the  price of their gas and diesel vehicles to an unsupported level so as to support their fantasy.

The new Stalin, Obama, pretty much knew there would be no market for a change over to electric cars since the consumers rejected them in 1935, and as part of his communist economic take over of the American economy, he with economic circumstance had the car industry to close down over 800 car dealership as he goose stepped to power.  His real plan was always to force Americans back into public transportation and to destroy what was not just a small part of the American dream to be middle class, the America automobile.

The plan was always to destroy the American Automobile Industry and not to save it.  But he had to be secret and conniving and the process had to be slow.  The communist have to inch their way to power so their victims do not fully realize what is happening until it is too late.

Although you will read different timelines since revolutions often begin way before history books even footnote their beginnings, the Russian Revolution and the communist take over of Russia began roughly in 1905 and lasted until 1924 when power was more firmly held.  And even then the communist did not hold power as firmly as they pretended.

Again Revolutions are often NOT clean and clearly defined and it is hard to know which forces are doing what.  Still it might be said that it took the Communist from 1911 to 1949 to fully take control of China.

So the point is that the communist are attempting to be much more methodical in the US and EU and are trying to avoid counter revolts that might set them back years.  But the larger point is that communism does not work.  And the people pushing communism must destroy the economy so that they can pretend they have the solution, when they don’t.

But back to the point of this article.  Electric Cars are not really being taken seriously by those promoting them.  They know they are not feasible.   It is about destroying the middle class automobile industry as part of the middle class dream.  Communist can not take over a country unless they first destroy the middle class.   And that was always the agenda of Obama and those who crashed the American economy in 2008.