Gamer Movie Review: Beyond The Trailer + Comment

Comment on gamer movie:

In this movie advanced neural interfaces are explored, but the seeming necessity that such would quickly after likely be followed by radical ai advances seem to be ignored within it, as far as I can remember.

Within the movie humans can be controlled by other humans, but their performance is limited by the performance of those humans remotely controlling them.    But one of the things that could happen in the real world is that as neural interfaces lead to the creation of agi, if it isn't created prior to their development through ai research, not only can intelligence be augmented by these neural interfaces but direct control of the body given to software or ai.

What would this mean?  Well the human reaction time, even if augmented is limited, and the sluggishness of their thought speed rate(due to slow action potential speed, neuron refractory periods, etc) means they can never reach the best possible behavior.   But a superintelligence can attain perfect behavior, score 3 point throws practically nonstop from any distance the individual is physically capable of.    A superintelligence can dance perfectly.  It can understand any language, and debate any topic perfectly, perform any moves or plays or acting, from the mundane to the most intimate of behaviors at superhuman levels of ridiculous perfection.

What this means is that giving control, which need not actually even feel like giving control("because the neural interface could enact activity in the brain areas that give the sensation of  free choice, making it feel as if one is doing the choosing"), means one is the best at any game, sport, art or activity that one's physical body allows.  And with training, it would allow peak body to have peak performance and control.

Nervous about a speech?  One would not have to fret, engage of such would ensure the speech goes perfectly smooth barring physical failure of the body or external events.  Want interesting casual conversation tailored to the audience or person you're speaking with?  It can be done.

The attainment of optimal behavior would be quite ideal, especially if it requires no effort.

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Imagine being in an accident that leaves you unable to feel any sensation in your arms and fingers. Now imagine regaining that sensation, a decade later, through a mind-controlled robotic arm that is directly connected to your brain.-sciencedaily source

Reply over at kurzweilai regards virtual reality.

In the short term, desktop and mobile VR aren't even competing products, in the medium term, the mobile paradigm will probably win out, and in the long term we'll have nanobots in our brains.

I agree nanobots are likely if no solution is found for noninvasive vr ala sword art online. Could something like sonogenetics work, scale with future tech? that'd require genetic modification, but theoretically you could put larger custom special purpose proteins combined with complementary molecules to better aid an interaction with a device outside the skull.

But in terms of nanobots, I think what's likely is negligible senescence synthetic biology cells using unevolvable molecular elements such as complex antennas, and perhaps fiber optics, molecular electronics, etc.

It's room scale or don't bother

An advanced neural interface, brain computer interface, can shut down signals to the muscles, enabling you to control a virtual body, while an automated ai agent controls your real body. Allowing you to freely explore the current real world environment in a ghost like out of body experience or it could also allow you to move about freely even with a body of the opposite sex, and even with nonhuman bodies.

Theoretically if enough computing resources are available, it could instantiate fantasies upon the real world, by overimposing virtual photorealistic changes based upon your virtual body's actions, and being able to control all agents in the scene within this fantasy scenario. Effectively allowing any thought or fantasy to take place indistinguishable from real within your mind and without need of anyone's consent, all while your physical actual body's controlled by an advanced software system.-source

Mit reads closed book, and comment on neural interfaces

MIT uses radiation to read closed books
Terahertz imaging can scan pages that would be too fragile to touch.
This doesn't mean you'll be reading fragile manuscripts any time soon. The current implementation can only read about nine pages deep before it's overwhelmed by noise, and it can't even gauge the depth beyond 20 pages. MIT will need to improve both the power and overall accuracy of its terahertz tech before you can read that precious first-run copy of War and Peace. -source engadget

This reminds me of one of the ideas from some works of science fiction.  Some manner of signal would be used to wirelessly read brain activity through the skull, without surgery, just a simple helmet.  It would also be able to interact with the brain activity.   Right now it seems such may not be possible, but hopefully some advance makes such possible.  As I think brain computer interface proliferation would be widespread if a way around risky surgical procedures can be found.