Chapter 380: The Future of Cyberpunk?
"It's a good direction."
"With the rapid development of information science, mechatronics and artificial intelligence technology, upper limb wearable robots have been widely used in the fields of medical rehabilitation training, military individual combat, human load operation and teleoperation as a multidisciplinary interdisciplinary biomechatronics system."
"On the one hand, the current upper limb wearable robot has insufficient environmental perception and insufficient cognition of the user's movement intention, which cannot accurately judge the external environment and the user's movement intention in a timely manner and make effective decisions, resulting in sluggish and even wrong robot movement."
"But with the algorithm developed by Dr. Zhao, human judgment can be introduced into the control system, and mechanical intelligence can form hybrid intelligence, which greatly improves the ability of this wearable robot."
Qi Heng is worthy of being a computer doctor in Massachusetts, and he quickly came up with a related technology that is applicable to the algorithm developed by Zhao Sheng.
"Dr. Zhao, although I am in the field of computer science, I am far less talented than you in developing algorithms."
After a pause, Qi Heng said with a sigh.
"Although my center has developed neural reconstruction technology, for some patients with limb disability, they still need the help of this mechanical prosthesis."
Zhao Sheng nodded and said.
He and Jin Dong were able to research out neural reconstruction technology based on stem cell technology, which is already very powerful.
As for generating limbs from scratch and transplanting them, at present, it is still in the category of science fiction.
The complexity of the human limb is far greater than that of the organs.
This brain-computer interface technology can greatly help people with disabilities, by controlling external robots or bionic robotic arms, they can restore their motor ability, and by monitoring the activity of the brain's language areas, they can help express language or spell words, and these scenarios can be realized in the future.
"We can specialize in algorithms and then customize them for various control systems."
Qi Heng thought for a while and said.
Now all kinds of intelligent system control robots, bionic mechanical limbs, plug-in wearable machinery, are very mature, he is in the computer field, Zhao Sheng is in the medical field, and there is not a lot of involvement in mechanical and electronic engineering technology.
Then specializing in this decoding algorithm and then customizing it for various systems is the best choice.
"That's what I thought too."
Zhao Sheng nodded.
That's what he really wants, to use technology to bring about some change in the world.
For example, the tendon repair and nerve reconstruction technology he developed together with Jindong is only a small range of applications at present.
But once this technology is rolled out, it will have a subversive impact on human life.
The same is true for brain-computer interface technology.
Using his own research and development technology to influence the world, this proposition is too grandiose, Zhao Sheng didn't dare to have such an idea before, but since the previous changes in Goldfinger, as long as it is within the scope of knowledge that Zhao Sheng has mastered, various technologies can be created like puzzles, and Zhao Sheng has such an idea.
But Zhao Sheng can't say such an idea to anyone at the moment.
"Dr. Zhao, I can't wait to start this new project."
Qi Heng said in high spirits, at this moment, he already wanted to do a big job.
"In the final analysis, the mechanical prosthetics we are using now are still using muscle electrical signal technology, that is, myoelectric prostheses, and the brain-computer interface technology studied on this basis is just to allow humans to control these prostheses with their brains, and it is still very far away from the mechanical prosthetics that are truly perfectly integrated with human beings."
Zhao Sheng nodded, and said with some sighs.
"To put it bluntly, the current mechanical prosthetic is just a product similar to a wearable combination of electronics and mechanics, and it is not a real fusion with humans."
After a pause, Zhao Sheng said with some pity, no matter how powerful his golden finger is, he can integrate the knowledge and skills that he can contact and copy others, but it is also limited by the current technological level of the world, and it cannot produce a technology that exceeds the current scientific and technological level out of thin air.
"Dr. Zhao, I think my imagination is already very bold, but you think much more boldly than mine."
"The kind of mechanical prosthetic you are talking about, the kind that is completely integrated with the human body, and with the human mind, it can be like controlling one's own flesh and blood, that is probably not something that our generation, or even future generations, can make."
Hearing Zhao Sheng say this, Qi Heng immediately smiled and said.
"Yes, mechanical prosthetics and the human body are compatible, there are only two ways, one is mechanical transformation, the problems here are biocompatibility, human strength limitations, energy supply methods, neural signal decipherment and compilation, etc., and the other is biological modification, the problem here is immune system rejection, genetic information decipherment and compilation, mutation is universal, non-directional, harmful, these are not things that can be completed in a generation or even several generations."
Zhao Sheng nodded and said.
"But I think cyberpunk is the future of humanity, and when peace really comes, humanity will no longer evolve naturally, and then God's work will fall into the hands of humanity."
After a pause, Zhao Sheng said again.
"The future that Dr. Zhao is talking about is a bit like the mechanical ascension that will appear in many science fiction works, that is, the digitization of consciousness, but as you said, human consciousness cannot be uploaded to the brain in the form of numbers."
"The human brain has always had biological limits, so I don't think there is such a thing as a mechanical ascension to immortality."
"It's better to study genetic modification, although not to say immortality, at least to live a few hundred more years."
Qi Heng didn't know why Zhao Sheng was so obsessed with cyberpunk, but he had his own opinions.
In the long run, especially for humans themselves, genes are more important than machines.
"Also, once the life span of human beings is extended by genetic modification, then many technologies that are unthinkable now will definitely appear at that time."
Zhao Sheng also smiled and said.
This is just a kind of imagination of him, and the so-called genetic secrets of human life extension can really be explored?
Whether it can be penetrated, Zhao Sheng does not doubt this, any technology that seems sci-fi needs nothing more than the accumulation of time.
But can humanity get that point in time?
That's the real big problem.
At this moment, Zhao Sheng suddenly understood why in some science fiction movies, once the so-called [artificial intelligence] really has the [wisdom] of human beings, after understanding the development of human beings and the history of war, they will make the same choice, either to destroy human beings and restart the world, or to control human beings in an absolute way.
(End of chapter)