Zuckerberg said: “Our goal is to eventually develop brain-controlled wearable and implantable technologies so that humans can think and control things in virtual or augmented reality.”

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According to foreign media reports, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg put down his daily work on Thursday and attended the charity foundation he established with his wife, Priscilla Chan. The activities organized by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Zuckerberg said he wants to study brain-controlled wearables and implants. Facebook’s recent acquisition of CTRL Labs is a step in this direction.

Zuckerberg and Joe Z. He said: “Our goal is to eventually develop brain-controlled wearable and implantable technologies so that humans can think and control things in virtual or augmented reality.”

Facebook bought CTRL Labs for $5-10 billion last month, and this deal is one of Facebook’s largest M&A deals to date. CTRL Labs is developing a wristband that allows people to control devices based on signals from the spinal cord. After the transaction is completed, CTRL Labs will join Facebook Reality Labs, which is developing augmented reality smart glasses.

The dialogue between Zuckerberg, Dris and Quark is part of a series of discussions about Zuckerberg’s focus on future technology and society. Throughout the conversation, they talked about the challenges and advantages of using implant technology to read human neurons. Quark said that implantable technology poses a health risk, and Dris pointed out that implantable technology can decode real-time internal language, for example, it can help people with limited physical or language skills recover from a stroke. “From a performance perspective, this detailed instant message is impossible. You actually have to drill under the skull and touch the neurons,” Dris said.

Zuckerberg also said that assuming people have motor neurons, they can eventually use devices like CTRL Lab to control things with their own minds. But those with physical defects may need to implant equipment to do the same thing, he said. Zuckerberg said: “My motor neurons have enough nerve power to control another extra hand. It’s just a training problem, then they can get these signals from the wrist. But if you go in the brain The ability to convert things into sports activities is limited, then you need to implant something.

Since 2016, Facebook has been working on brain computing technology as part of the company’s Building 8 division. The department is a research laboratory designed to drive the company’s efforts to develop consumer hardware products. Facebook provided the latest developments in its brain computing work in July, saying that research with the University of California, San Francisco, has made progress, but it has been a long time since commercialization.

Tutoring AWS Fees

Zuckerberg also said that one of the challenges faced by laboratories and biotech startups involved in cutting-edge research is the high cost of computing services. Although it is now cheaper to sequence human genes and generate data from human organisms, storing and analyzing all the information becomes extremely expensive.

Zuckerberg pointed out that public cloud leader AWS and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos should be responsible for the high fees charged by cloud services. “One of the things we talked about was our computational cost and AWS bills. We should call Bezos to talk about this,” Zuckerberg joked in the interview.

The San Francisco-based charitable foundation Chen Zuckerberg has a series of ongoing projects ranging from cell biology to early cancer research. Zuckerberg is selling billions of dollars in Facebook stock to fund the project. The Chen Zuckerberg Bio Center, in collaboration with biomedical research institutions, was also funded by other funders including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.

Zuckerberg said that one of his personal challenges in 2019 was “to host a series of public discussions about future technologies in society.” Zuckerberg said that in scientific research, the biggest cost in the past was Laboratory staffing, drug manufacturing, and clinical trial studies, but now the computer is there. All major cloud providers, including AWS and Google, see a huge demand for cloud computing services in the biotechnology space and supporting genomic projects.

AWS’s revenue in the last quarter reached $8.4 billion; Google said in July that its annual revenue for cloud services has reached $8 billion. Although Microsoft has not disclosed revenue data for the company’s Azure cloud services, the service currently ranks second only to AWS in the market.

The human genome is over 6 billion letters in size, which is a lot of data, and scientists are still understanding the process to drive new treatments. Deris, a professor of molecular biology at the University of California, said that developing countries face enormous challenges in paying for computing costs. “One of the first steps is to overcome computer barriers.”

Chen Zuckerberg advocates a bold mission to end human disease. In this direction, the organization supports technology and tools to further research and fund science projects. Other topics discussed by Zuckerberg on Thursday include early cancer detection andRecent advances in cell biology, etc.