New ask Hacker News story: Key technological advance in neural interfaces
Key technological advance in neural interfaces 4 by all2 | 0 comments on Hacker News. It occurred to me on my way home today that the key advancement in in neural interfaces will be in the data layer. In my work with electronics I learned that there's a hardware transport layer, the wires on which signals travel. Then there's the software/protocol layer that defines _what_ travels on the hardware. My current understanding of things like neuralink is that there is a solid interface that takes input from the brain and provides output back to the brain, and behind the interface is a bunch of hardware and software that translates and uses the inputs from the brain. That is, we change from mode of signals and signals transport to another. What occurred to me was that a true bionic won't provide an interface to the existing hardware and software data layers of the human brain, but will instead expend the existing layers with new available neurons. Now, you could probably bit-b...