Article from WeChat public account:caoz’s nightmare (ID: caozsay), author: caozsay, from FIG title: Oriental IC
Last month, a Singaporean entrepreneur’s friend suddenly invited me to a press conference. It’s a Boston-based smart technology company’s roadshow in Singapore. Anyway, I’m going to have a good time. The result was a bit unexpected, and it really opened my eyes.
This company is related to brainwave recognition technology. In order to prove that it is not an advertisement, I will not name it. Their product direction is medical health and education. Recently, I have seen people voicing their education related products. How do you say that? Today, I don’t talk about the right and wrong of the products. I only talk about the technological development trends and future opportunities of brainwave signals. Of course, as non-industry people, I can only share them according to my understanding. I am grateful if any professional corrects the criticism.
1. What is the brainwave signal?
My understanding, our thinking, our emotions, the physical behavior we want to perform, the brain will get a certain response in brain waves when making such decisions. In theory, if you can understand the meaning of brain waves and interact with them, you can realize the recognition of mind and behavioral control. You can even realize the input and deep interaction of information through brain waves.
Of course, this is an ideal situation.
2. What is the bottleneck of brainwave technology
There are three problems with real problems
First, the signal of brain waves is very weak, and the device to be processed is easily interfered by various background signals in life, so effective recognition is actually difficult.
第Second, the characteristic meaning of brain waves, the part that humans can crack at present, is actually very few, most of the features are unrecognizable. For example, if you meditation a Tang poem, rely on brain wave identification to restore, at least it still feels a little far away.
Third, political correctness and ethical issues, this will be repeated later.
3. What is the direction of brainwave technology?
There is also an ideal side of reality
First, you can use the brainwave control to do simple idea recognition.
This value is still very large in the medical field. One is to allow disabled people to control prosthetics and achieve self-reliance, which is a very big gospel for many disabled people; 2 It is possible for patients with gradual freezing to gain some ability to operate the machine and exchange ideas, which is more typical than Hawking, but it is said that Hawking’s communication is carried out by recognizing the focus of the eye, but in the future, it may be possible to use brain waves to make related diseases. Patients have more autonomy and less pain; The third is that older people can direct some electronic nannies, intelligent robots to help them live alone, and even emergency alarms when accidents occur.
In the sharing session, the experimental video I saw was very interesting. The monkeys who were tied to the limbs could control the robot to feed the bananas through brain waves. In addition, there is a very touching story, a girl who accidentally lost her arms, controlled her prosthetic limbs with brain waves, and learned to play the piano. In China, I have seen some propaganda before, and I have already used commercial products to control the take-off and landing of drones with brain waves, but I have not tested it and I dare not comment.
Second, there have been some temptations and achievements in the field of thinking training and education.
The press conference that day was exactly the day when the Singapore City F1 competition was just over. Surprisingly, the owner of an F1 team participated in the conference as a guest. What did the F1 boss share? They said that the young contracted racers of their team used this brain wave device for attention training, which was fruitful and the results were steadily improved.
Of course, the improvement of young racers’ performance may be a multi-faceted reason. It is still the same sentence. I don’t comment on related products, but I think the feasibility of this technology.It is indeed possible.
Third, the future may be used for the reception of information and the transfer of knowledge.
It is said that there is such a trial, but this is also a high risk of ethical and political correctness.
You can use it for both knowledge transfer and brainwashing.
4. What is the current technology trend
There are several ways to get brain waves.
The brain-computer interface, this theory has the highest efficiency, the best recognition rate, and can be used continuously for a long time, but the disadvantage is that you need to insert an interface, many people will instinct to refuse, and, in case the interface is out Some unexpected problems, many possibilities can not imagine.
Electrode patch, a typical way is to stick a dense electrode on the outside of the brain. In the medical field and some scientific experimental scenes, this method is also very common, the cost is much lower than the brain-computer interface, and the safety is It is also much higher and does not require implantation. The recognition rate of the signal is also relatively guaranteed, but the disadvantage is that after all, the operation cost is high and requires professional assistance and cannot be carried out at any time. It is difficult to popularize in everyday life scenes.
Head ring/helmet has the advantage of being easy to wear, continuous use, and convenient for productization. The disadvantage is that the acquired signal is easily interfered by the background noise signal, and the accuracy and efficiency of the recognition are obviously not as good as the first two.
We know that Tesla’s boss has invested heavily in research in this area. In addition, both Facebook and Google have begun to invest in acquiring related companies and technologies to enter this field. Of course, including the former Chinese richest man Chen Tianqiao, he also put the main energy and financial support into related fields.
The involvement of commercial scale funds has had a positive impact on the development of this technology.
5. Other Miscellaneous
There was a paragraph at the sharing meeting, but it was very practical to point out the problem. The sharers said that they had conducted an investigation and asked the respondents if they had complete brainwave recognition capabilities and what they wanted to do.
The majority of male readers are thinking about how to control and operate more machines and equipment, and better control.The improvement of strength.
And many female readers, um, I hope to use this technology to understand what my husband is thinking.
Do you suddenly feel scared?
If, if we say, if the awareness of brainwaves in the future reaches amazing accuracy, and the equipment can be amazingly simple and reliable, and there is no need to touch it, suddenly, we seem to face a huge The problem, our privacy, may have nowhere to hide.
I will give you an example. Today, you are on a business trip outside the country. You have received a call from your wife and said that the child is in trouble at school. And the final result is a mess. You are so angry that you can’t wait to go back and beat him. Now you have to catch the plane. An important meeting, passing the security gate, the high-tech security gate will evaluate your brainwaves, and the beeping alarm will make a big noise. The security inspector said that you have violent tendencies and hurting people, and you are forbidden to board the plane. Then, feel it.
Now we know that cameras are everywhere, and people’s behavior is always under surveillance, but fortunately, we are all civilized people, not afraid to be monitored. But if one day, when the monitoring devices about emotions and thoughts are everywhere, are we really always frank and bright?
Maybe there will be a course called cerebral occlusion, which can be used to cover up your emotions and thoughts so that the monitoring device can’t be explored. The magic in Harry Potter may become a reality.
The world is getting better and better, but if you want to get good things, you have to pay some price.
Industrial development, the development of technology, human beings enjoy more and more convenience, but they are paying more and more.
Finally, the blockchain has suddenly exploded again. I don’t chase the hotspots. You read the old ones:
To be honest, the blockchain has a certain value in solving transaction credits. There are certain application scenarios in the financial industry. I have also said before that the demand for blockchain technical talents in the financial sector is still very strong. It is also a fact.
But if the financial oligarchy intends to optimize the international trade settlement through the blockchain, the work of international credit certificates, people can build in the alliance of mutual trust institutions, such as major banks, major securities companies, insurance companies, etc. Private chain, alliance chain. Why do you want to get this thing on the public chain, why should you let the third party’s so-called public chain run its own financial business? There is no reason.
——”I heard that you want to speculate”
Sometimes, I was treated as a public enemy of the currency, but my judgment on the blockchain was consistent. I did not say that I would change my point of view and judgment with the hotspot. From three years ago to now, from the earliest blockchain science to the middle of several articles, any one out, not afraid of you to dig graves, can stand the test of time.
A variety of black swan events will make the market ups and downs, but after a long time, everything will return to the trajectory.
By the way, if there is any new difference in cognition, it is really a bit.
Once quantum computing is mature, bitcoin will be cleared, not mining, all bitcoin addresses and currency holdings are public, Mr. Li’s teacher argued that the public Bitcoin account address would pose a security risk. Many of his fans actually wrote a letter, but I also understood that this sentence is a sieve. After listening to this sentence, I still believe in Teacher Li’s. High quality leeks.) If the quantum calculation is mature, the address reverses the key, all accounts can be controlled, and the value is naturally zeroed.
How long does it take for quantum computing to mature? I really don’t know this, five to ten years, or fifty years.
Article from WeChat public account:caoz’s nightmare (ID: caozsay), author: caozsay