\u201cI’ll be back\u201d<\/p>\n
Said The Terminator, a cyborg assassin from 2029, before massacring the whole crew…a moviebluff or our harsh future, with the advancements in the field of mechatronics and AI this could soon become a reality.<\/p>\n
\u201cHumans must become cyborgs if they are to stay relevant in a future dominated by artificial intelligence\u201d.<\/p>\n
That was the warning from Tesla founder Elon Musk.<\/p>\n
If humans want to continue to add value to the economy, they must augment their capabilities through a \u201cmerger of biological intelligence and machine intelligence\u201d. If we fail to do this, we will risk becoming \u201chouse cats\u201d to artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n
And so, we enter the realm of brain-computer (or brain-machine) interfaces, which cut out the need for sluggish communication middlemen such as typing and talking in favour of direct, lag-free interactions between our brains and external devices.<\/p>\n
With each advancing day we are making breakthroughs in the field of humanoid robots by making its motion more fluid and less mechanical and hence, more natural but is it natural enough to fool us??<\/p>\n
Not yet , but is it even possible for humanoid robots to interact and convey messages in a far more efficient manner than us and at the same time act \u201chuman\u201d ?<\/p>\n
If and when that happens, it will be the day that decides the entire course of human race. The more you think about it more it seems to be science fiction rather than a possible future.<\/p>\n
So, one may wonder where does the science end and the science fiction start?<\/p>\n
Though that may be fun to think about it ,those days, if they are to become a reality, are far away in the future as our progress in the field of brain-computer interface is still in its baby steps like recently we have been able to induce the feeling of touch for an amputee which was a major breakthrough but it still has not reached the level of sophistication as mentioned in the Elon Musk\u2019s vision of symbiosis between man and machine, which would require a much more granular understanding of the brain network that goes beyond the basics of motor control to more complex cognitive faculties like language and metaphor.<\/p>\n
But not everyone agrees with views of Elon Musk, one of them being Professor Panagiotis Artemiadis of Arizona State University. He has created a system that allows for a single person to control the collaborative movement of multiple drones. He is sceptical that the rise of AI will render humans irrelevant. \u201cWe are building these machines to serve humans,\u201d he said. Miguel Nicolelis, who has built brain-controlled exoskeletons and a brain-to-brain interface that allowed a rat in the United States to use the senses of the other in Brazil, agrees. Humans won\u2019t become irrelevant until machines can replicate the human brain \u2013 something Nicolelis believes is not possible.<\/p>\n
So, will humans be killed by a cyborg assassin sent from the future?<\/p>\n
Will it spell our doom?<\/p>\n
Or will it be our saviour?<\/p>\n
Only time will tell.<\/p>\n
Until then,<\/p>\n
Cheers<\/p>\n
-Shravan Premraj<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cI’ll be back\u201d Said The Terminator, a cyborg assassin from 2029, before massacring the whole crew…a moviebluff or our harsh future, with the advancements in the field of mechatronics and AI this could soon become a reality. \u201cHumans must become cyborgs if they are to stay relevant in a future dominated by artificial intelligence\u201d. That…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yantrika"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitk.acm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitk.acm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitk.acm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitk.acm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitk.acm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nitk.acm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/nitk.acm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitk.acm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitk.acm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitk.acm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}