This is not satire or spam but link dailystar.co.uk may be NSFW for some.
[blockquote]Billionaire Elon Musk has two wildly ambitious goals: to establish a permanent human colony on Mars and to create a technology that links human brains with artificial intelligence.
Of Musk’s two futuristic dreams, it’s the second one that has the most potential to change humanity.
While most of the early publicity about Neuralink, the SpaceX entrepreneur's brain-to-computer interface, has focused on its potential to unlock the lives of people living with severe paralysis by allowing to control robotic arms and even one day entire exoskeletons, the technology would change the way that the rest of us communicate, learn, and have sex.
Neurobiologist Professor Andrew Hires said: ”The first application you can imagine is better mental control for a robotic arm for someone who's paralysed."
But more than one researcher has explored the idea of stimulating the brain’s pleasure centres directly, allowing people to do without drugs or alcohol to achieve pleasurable sensations.
Dr Stuart Meloy developed a device in 2001 that was playfully dubbed “The Orgasmatron”.
It was designed as a pain management system but, as he told New Scientist: “I was placing the electrodes and suddenly the woman started exclaiming emphatically.
“I asked her what was up and she said, 'You’re going to have to teach my husband to do that'."
Meloy had accidentally given the woman an orgasm by connecting the electrodes of his pain management system to the right spot on her spine.[/blockquote]
more - https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tech/news/elon-musks-neuralink-brain-chip-26140419
I'm not getting anything like that implanted in my brain, but it sounds like a bit of fun.
What are the downsides? I don't see any.
Hello RGG Nice to see you again.
As usual points for the creative headline Strigoi.
Sorta' sounds appealing until you get to the part where the drill a hole in your skull to implant the thing.
If you can hack it you could invade countries while the opposing army is too busy getting their rocks off to do anything about it.
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Nice fruit bat Octo.
You could get mind raped by the Pixel Posse hacker group.
Unlimited possibilities.
Imagine the damage that could occur if people with malicious intent were able to access those chips. Anything from making you hear voices to having hallucination to turning you into a Manchurian Candidate or even flipping a switch and turning the entire population into obedient drones.
big fun anyway you look at it.
A very thick tin foil hat will work to block the pesky AI's signals, or so they say on the net
What's your pleasure, plain, unicorn, fedora, sombrero or cowboy tin foil hat?
Power without abuse loses it's charm.
Conspiracy Cowboy