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AI Dreams => General Chat => Topic started by: WriterOfMinds on February 16, 2022, 04:26:01 am
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We've had some talk about neurological implants here, and honestly I had never considered this angle. What if your cyborg stuff breaks after the company that made it has gone bankrupt, and you're left with a useless chunk of circuitry stuck in your body?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete
The patients interviewed for this article were at least relieved of blindness for a few years, so the implant may have been a net benefit for them regardless (and some definitely think it was). But it gives me pause when I think about healthy people getting an implant for performance enhancement or recreation.
It's also rather tragic that we are getting close to something like Geordi's visor -- I mean, that's amazing -- and it flopped because the money wasn't there.
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The technology wasn't around back when this device was first conceived, but now we would be on the cusp of much simpler and safer alternatives in the form of augmented reality. Imagine something like the driving navigation software on your smartphone, but for pedestrians. Combine something like Google maps with range finding and obstacle detection capability and you would have something that could compete with this device in your pocket. Use audio or tactile cues and you wouldn't even need surgery.
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Well its a little more serious than windows updates, if this thing becomes common the legacy support HAS to be there, cause its very serious.
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If anybody remembers when Televisions and stereos were repaired at the component level, tubes, transistors, etc and how TV repair shops opened up just about everywhere and looked really junky with old parts laying everywhere, this issue sounds like a great little market ready to open for those entrepreneurs wanting to provide obsolete body parts repair. Heck, all one needs is a medical degree, an engineering degree and have that intuitive nack to just fix, upgrade, or mod stuff. With all the automation happening this looks like a perfect fit for an old human....
(https://s.hdnux.com/photos/02/46/32/681638/3/rawImage.jpg)
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The only thing I can think of to add is that going forward these types of companies should have better regulations. A complete transparency policy when informing customers about possible risks would definitely help. Also, a policy stating that the technology must be deemed reversible before it can be sold to the public seems like a good idea.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Men (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Men)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl9Nvg4yuus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl9Nvg4yuus)
What happens when you can't make the payments?
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Heck, all one needs is a medical degree, an engineering degree and have that intuitive nack to just fix, upgrade, or mod stuff. With all the automation happening this looks like a perfect fit for an old human....
Now we don't need flakers we need people to GO ALL THE WAY, no half done things. Every day we lose important people, these important people lost need to be made up for or its devolution for us all, all of humanity.
I wish all you compadre's good luck! There isn't infinite time, we must take action now.
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Hehe. I like those sci fi movies and nice thoughts Magnus.
Here's why I think the more advanced artificial organs won't become an issue of keeping, I explain by the end of the paragraph:
Ray Kurzweil's 2009 book is very serious and has good reasons. And the AI field as we saw is moving fast. He too feels 2029 is the date to see AGI. He also says too 2034 we will have nanobots repairing etc in our bloodstream and enhancing the brain to daydream fully but in control, etc. The funny thing is this nano stuff in the 2030s is likely to be arriving from the powerful force that arrives in 2029. So I think we will see artificial organs and such come fast soon and I don't think it's going bankrupt, I think they will be replaced with new full bodies by round 2 when the old one breaks haha. It's that exponential curve, it's all gonna change faster, soon, once AGI is made.
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2022 -> 2029 (7 years from now.)
Just think how amazing that is, to have real artificial sentients around. Its going to be a total nightmare really tho, who knows what to expect of it, but maybe some secret places in the russian government, they know what it is like already. But Its only a guess - Maybe we have quantum computers already and its a secret.
building sector, mining, farming, manufacturing, health-care will skyrocket even past todays standards. Its a strange world to think about, me myself I would prefer banning them from the earth except some "robot world" amusement park, and everything outside gets to stay the same. But think how horse+kart led to the highways of today, that kind of difference is startling.
And if that is the future you want to make for yourself, being in charge of it all I hope you can handle it.
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Pacemakers are a mature technology, and I'm pretty sure the companies that make those aren't allowed to just let them stop working inside a patient and not do anything about it. So this sort of thing CAN be done right. It's a matter of caring enough to set up the safeguards.
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pace makers are a death sentence. :(
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My father deals with a pacemaker. He has a control examination and battery change every five years. Never had any problems with it.
However, he is being told not to keep his cellphone near it.
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"A research team from Utrecht University has successfully fabricated working livers using a newly developed ultrafast volumetric 3D bioprinting method." using light to solidify the liquid
https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/researchers-make-regenerative-medicine-breakthrough-with-volumetric-3d-bioprinted-livers-204463/
I took a further look into the paper and found this below, it seems to confirm it as "very interesting":
"ConclusionsIn summary, the first phase of the study takes fundamentalstepsto unravelthe effectsof different cellular components (single cells and organoids) on the volumetric printing process,
This article isprotected by copyright. All rights reserved.24namely due tothecell-mediated lightscattering and its effect on printing resolution. Using this knowledge, an optically tuned, gelatin-based bioresin was successfullydeveloped and was able to reduce scattering through refractive index matching of specific intracellular components. This strategy is versatile, and could be potentially applied to resins used for volumetric additive manufacturing which use other photocrosslinking chemistries besides methacryloly-based, such as thiol-ene step growth.[76]This development allowed high resolution volumetric bioprinting with increasing cell densities, and provides important knowledge on the ideal design requirements forthe development of next-generation bioresins for VBP. In combination with more advanced tomographic algorithms, multi-material and multi-cellular printing approaches can be more easily established in order to increase the overall complexity of volumetrically printed architectures.Using the liver as a model tissue platform, this study demonstrated the ability to harness the advantages of both VBP and organoid technology in a single approach that resulted in the fabrication of multi-scale biofactories capable of guiding tissue-specific functions. Liver-derived organoids were successfully printed at high densities and demonstrated maintained viability and hepatic function compared to extrusion printed and casted controls. The layerless fabrication approach employed by VBP resulted in increased organoid viability post-printing, and enabled the preservation of organoid morphology and polarity compared to controls. The soft, organoid-laden bioresin was successfully sculpted into highly convoluted, mathematically-derived structures with distinct structural properties. Successful printing of these cell-laden structures in under 20 seconds and establishment of a sterile perfusion chamber allowed the printed organoids to act as biofactories capable of modulating liver-specific ammonia detoxification depending on the printed architecture. These findings demonstrate the close relationship between the shape of theconstructs and their resulting biological functionality, further underlining the potential of biofabrication for advancing tissue engineering. This
This article isprotected by copyright. All rights reserved.25study,therefore,opens up new possibilities for the future development of self-sustaining biofactories that are able to carry out a wide variety to tissue-specific functions. Overall, the combination of the ultra-fast VBP process with organoid technology holds great potential for the development of advanced regenerative medicine approaches and in vitromodel development for fundamental biology research, personalized drug screening and disease modelling."