WHEN WILL COMPUTERS BE ABLE TO READ OUR MINDS ?

Technology is already enabling computers to read our minds.

Think of the possibilities that could result from technology that reads your your thoughts. How about an app that knows what your friend wants for dinner so you don’t have to ask or kows the music to play when you get home based on your thinking about it earlier in the day. Convenience and time savings would be huge and the possibilities are endless.

Elon Musk’s company Neuralink is to link the brain to a computer by installing slender electrodes. “If you can connect these signals you can solve everything from memory loss, hearing loss, blindness, paralysis depression, insomnia, extreme pain, seizures, anxiety, addiction, strokes, brain damage; these can all be solved with an implantable neural link,” Musk said at the demonstration of the technology, which also unexpectedly featured live pigs that had actually been implanted with the company’s electrodes.

It would be pretty cool and do a lot of good if Musk is right. You can watch the demo with pigs that have the technology installed here.

BCI Is Coming Soon.

Not only is Musk in on the BCI action, but researchers have shown they can translate brain activity into synthetic speech or text by recording and decoding neural signals, using AI algorithms. So yes, computers are already reading our minds in the research lab.

Guess who else is behind a lot of this research? Facebook.

Don’t tell me you are surprised.

Read more about this technology and what it might mean here .