CN China to ramp up brain chip program after teaching monkey to control robot - The country’s current progress appears to be on par with Elon Musk’s Neuralink.

China to ramp up brain chip program after teaching monkey to control robot (archive)
By Tristan Greene
Published: July 7th, 2024 at 20:33 UTC

China has created a committee to steer the nation’s development of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), with the hope of becoming the global leader in brain chip technology.

The committee will reportedly develop nationwide standards for development to compete with Western technology outfits, such as Elon Musk’s Neuralink.

Brain-computer interfaces
The term “brain-computer interface” was coined in the early 1970s. A BCI refers to any device that translates the brain’s signals into language that can be interpreted by a computer.

Over the last 50 years, scientists and engineers have used them to study the human brain and to develop methods to treat various neurological conditions. Experimentally, BCIs have shown promise in the treatment of conditions such as epilepsy or in their capacity to improve the quality of life for people with conditions such as locked-in syndrome or paralysis.

Recently, BCIs have made headlines as billionaire mogul Elon Musk founded Neuralink in 2016 and promised to bring the technology to the general public.

Neuralink’s BCI technology involves an invasive surgical procedure to implant the device inside the user’s skull. As Cointelegraph reported, a Neuralink device was successfully implanted in a human brain on Jan. 28, 2024.

China's ambitions
According to reports, not only does China want to become a global leader in the development of BCIs, but it also wants to use them for the purpose of cognitive enhancement.

Exactly what this means remains to be seen, but a report from Wired called one such Chinese experiment “controversial” over claims a device similar to Musk’s Neuralink would enable “enhanced cognition.”

Per Wired:

“At a tech forum in Beijing … a Chinese company unveiled a ‘homegrown’ brain-computer interface that allowed a monkey to seemingly control a robotic arm just by thinking about it.”

Back on the western side, Neuralink recently postponed a scheduled operation to implant a device in a second patient’s brain over medical concerns.

Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is working on a non-invasive BCI that would rely on wearable technology to translate nerve impulses into language that can be used to operate the operating system for a holographic display device.

 

[Diana Moon Glampers]

Genuinely: go ahead, China. We'll wait and see how far you get before doing this to any more of our people.

These scientists are monsters. A lot of people are going to die in agony from these attempts. Our knowledge of the brain is so shitty that this is functionally equivalent to an Ancient Greek attempting a liver transplant.

 

[Lone MacReady II]

Since Americanda is going to adopt things like communist China's social credit score slavery once CBDCs are rolled out, this kind of shit will be right around the corner for the Semitic Banana Republic. They use China as an instruction manual.

 

[Pilgrim of Grace]

*UNATCO theme fades in*

 

[AnsemSoD1]

Since Americanda is going to adopt things like communist China's social credit score slavery once CBDCs are rolled out, this kind of shit will be right around the corner for the Semitic Banana Republic. They use China as an instruction manual.

At least once that shit starts getting rolled out here, I will know that the end is likely near, as that CBDC crap sounds like an easy shoe in for the Mark of the Beast. Jesus will return and personally smite every last one of these monsters right before our eyes and I can't wait to see it.

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

Of course a totalitarian commie shithole would like to have mindcontrol technology.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

This is mostly stolen tech. China Brain Project has less than 5% the funding as DARPA's BRAIN Initiative (US equivalent that wants this awful BCI filth). Domestic research made in China related to it has been criticized by several Chinese scientists who have worked on it. Charles Lieber, whose research is highly important to this shit, was a CCP spy under their Thousand Talents program. Put two and two together--China Brain Project is a giant reverse engineering operation, and we aren't doing nearly enough to remove CCP spies. Super dangerous!

 

[Forgotten Beast]

>Not peer-reviewed.
>"Reveal" consists of a totes real video from a year ago playing next to a recreation of the video's "experiment" but with a stuffed monkey (the real one was probably eaten by this point).
>NeuCyber NeuroTech, the "Company" behind this great advance brings no Google results beyond similar "CHINA STRONK" fluff articles from a couple of months ago at best (when this bullshit was revealed) and not a single one after. Results on the other side of the Great Firewall seem similarly sparse.
>Actual scientific terms used in the chinese state-run news.cn article are vague buzzwords at best, nonsensical at worst.
>Source: dude trust me.

What's with China and bogus claims about BCIs lately? First the stupid toy robot and now this? Are they fishing for investor money? Is this their new technological hill to die on? Is Xi Jinping butthurt about Musk? Was humiliating westerners in the space race getting too expensive? Are they actually making leaps in BCI technology and just trying to distract us? I know this isn't outside of China's MO but this is getting ridiculously transparent. I wish they invented a machine to answer all those questions instead of making new convoluted recipes for Sopa do macaco.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

I'm on board with this as long as the first monkey given the ability to control a military grade robot is one whose tormentor previously featured in the zoosadist threads. Not only will it have a burning hatred for humanity it will have a soft spot for Kiwi Farms.

 

[FamicomGorby]

but it also wants to use them for the purpose of cognitive enhancement.

Not that this works, for now, but I would think the Chinese state would wanna use it to just find out who's doin wrong think. Or maybe not that far, yet, maybe just seein who's paying attention when Xi Jing Ping is giving a speech or something.

 

[Penis Drager 2.0]

If this shit ever becomes mainstream, I'm going to be looking forward to all the tech-savvy shithead teens uploading copious amounts of gay porn directly into random people's brains.

 

[BulkForceFive]

Imagine being a worker at HuangDong Industries when they switch from PLC controlled robots to monkey controlled ones... robot arms deliberately picking up workers and peeling them...

 

[Drain Todger]

What's with China and bogus claims about BCIs lately? First the stupid toy robot and now this? Are they fishing for investor money? Is this their new technological hill to die on?

I never dismiss anything in this field as bogus. I take all claims of BCI development seriously, because the risk involved in not taking them seriously is too great. Better to keep an eye on it and find out later that it was garbage and didn’t function as described than to ignore it and let it slide.

Neurotechnology is smack-dab in the midst of an arms race. Everyone and their grandmother is trying to figure out how to make supersoldiers with mind-controlled drone swarms and the like. Many advancements in this area involve the development of surgery-free BCIs that could be injected into people. Once we cross that threshold, everyone is a potential target for mind manipulation.

 

[Forgotten Beast]

I take all claims of BCI development seriously

And so do I. And I don't doubt China is investing heavily on BCI technology and not showing their hand yet; they certainly have an advantage over the westerners by having less strict regulations on animal testing. The problem I have is that both those two recent examples are so outrageously exaggerated at best if you bother to check their claims that it seems their only objective is to make stupid articles to fool people who stop reading said articles at the title into thinking China is just two steps behind making full-fledged Bio-bots trained to fuck your mother, when they can't show a single proof that what they are showing does anything at all, let alone have the intellectual decency to at least try to present their findings in a remotely professional manner and not just vague pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.
I'm starting to think that China simply increased the incentives for BCI research and when a project is showing signs of going nowhere, they just stop funding it, recycle whatever the team has laying around by adding a toy robot or something sciency-looking for the photo, make a bogus article or a nice-looking exhibition out of it and send the failed team of young scientists to mine rare earth elements as a punishment. Successful teams get to join China's Brain Project without the need of bothering the state-run press.