Artificial Intelligence, neurotechnologies and human augmentation – YUFE Academy
A lecture at the YUFE Academy will be given by Włodzisław Duch from NCU.
Artificial Intelligence has great impact on every aspect of technology, including neurotechnologies used for human augmentation. In recent years progress in methods of brain activity measurement, analysis of neuroimaging and electrophysiological data, and understanding of brain processes, opens new areas for transdisciplinary applications. Identifying patterns in brain signals measured by electrophysiological (EEG/MEG, ECoG) or neuroimaging techniques (fMRI, PET) fingerprints of brain activity are discovered, representing thoughts, intentions, emotions, and other mental states. It leads to many applications, from objective diagnostic methods in psychiatry, therapeutic interventions using neuromodulation, neurorehabilitation based on direct brain stimulation combined with behavioral procedures. Applications for treating epilepsy, major depression, addictions, and other mental problems, are already on the market. Healthy people try to optimize their brain processes through neurofeedback. Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) allow for direct coupling of brains with electronic devices.
All these developments are rapidly changing human nature in an unprecedented way, creating new ways of social interactions. The road to Humanity+, or transhuman society of more evolved human species, is full of dangers, but may not be that long.
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A lecture at the YUFE Academy will be given by Włodzisław Duch from NCU.
Artificial Intelligence has great impact on every aspect of technology, including neurotechnologies used for human augmentation. In recent years progress in methods of brain activity measurement, analysis of neuroimaging and electrophysiological data, and understanding of brain processes, opens new areas for transdisciplinary applications. Identifying patterns in brain signals measured by electrophysiological (EEG/MEG, ECoG) or neuroimaging techniques (fMRI, PET) fingerprints of brain activity are discovered, representing thoughts, intentions, emotions, and other mental states. It leads to many applications, from objective diagnostic methods in psychiatry, therapeutic interventions using neuromodulation, neurorehabilitation based on direct brain stimulation combined with behavioral procedures. Applications for treating epilepsy, major depression, addictions, and other mental problems, are already on the market. Healthy people try to optimize their brain processes through neurofeedback. Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) allow for direct coupling of brains with electronic devices.
All these developments are rapidly changing human nature in an unprecedented way, creating new ways of social interactions. The road to Humanity+, or transhuman society of more evolved human species, is full of dangers, but may not be that long.
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