06-04-2011, 04:55 PM
Presented By
SATHAVAHANA CHOWDARY. B
PRAVEEN KOLLA
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ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
Human capability has long been limited by biology. Our mental and physical capabilities are limited. Athletes have pushed the limits of strength and endurance. Human working memory has always been limited to a relatively small number of items. Our minds, even of the most talented, are limited. And as we age, we go frail, both physically and mentally. Up to now, our advances in technology have functioned as accessories, enhancing our capabilities but not making any changes in our biology.
Now, we are able to develop a technology that helps us in the implantation of bio-electronic devices to amplify human thought, memory, vision, and muscle power. After these implants, a human-being becomes a Cyborg.
A CYBORG is a human-machine hybrid (cybernetic organism). It is part cybernetic and part human. Like all hybrids, Cyborgs provoke ambivalent responses. Their techno-bodies are represented super healthy, super clean and "more real than real" and their invulnerability makes them both seductive and potentially dangerous.
Introduction:
How might we interact with future computers? Let me list the ways: By gesture, by hand, foot and body motion, by the speed and forcefulness of our activities, by our thoughts, feelings and emotions, by where, how and when we look, by speech and sound, by music and touch. Imagine it and it shall come to pass? Not quite, but the potential is staggering, especially in the area of the cyborg—the implantation of bio-electronic devices to amplify human thought, memory, vision, and muscle power.
Cyborg is a cybernetic organism whose mental and physical and mental abilities are far extended by the machine technology.
It’s partly human and partly a machine.
WHY ?
The number of respected scientists predicting the advent of intelligent machines is growing exponentially. Steven Hawking, perhaps the most highly regarded theoretical scientist in the world and the holder of the Cambridge University chair that once belonged to Isaac Newton, said recently, "In contrast with our intellect, computers double their performance every 18 months. So the danger is real that they could develop intelligence and take over the world." He added, "We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it. The important message to take from this is that the danger that we will see machines with an intellect that outperforms that of humans—is real.The communication to robos is very difficult. There are certain grey areas in the man’s ability in order to rectify them
HOW CYBORGS ARE MADE..?
The chip is to be implanted in to our body, which consists of an array of electrodes. These electrodes are extremely thin, similar in dimension to a human hair. When implanted this get in contact with median nerve in order to record the reactions and simulate the nerves. The array is in turn in connected to the signal processing system through wires. The implant is a two way communication.
V ISUALISATIONS:
We think a lot isn’t it? We think logically , Analytically but we lack the processing capabilities.
What if we can get the processing capabilities of machine with our own way of thinking. No doubt we can create absolutely wonders.
8-Q This problem is keeping the 8 queens o chess board such that one queen should not face the other either diagonally ,horizontally or vertically squares.
There are nearly 96 different solutions to solve this problem. But, our computer performs 69,821 calculations of them only 2.34% of them are really needed.
So, a computer which can not think does all the calculations which are unnecessary.
SU-DO-KU:
Su-do-ku is another great puzzle which can be solved by computers in fraction of UEEN PROBLEM:
seconds but it can not be solved by us in that less time.
Because the processing capabilities of man are very less.
APPLICATIONS:
1) It is possible that the procedure could lead to a medical breakthrough for people paralyzed by spinal cord damage.
2) I hope to wire myself up to an ultrasonic sensor, used by robots to navigate around objects, to give myself a bat-like sixth sense.
3) The technique could be developed within a decade to restore movement to a tetraplegic's hand or feeling to a prosthetic leg used by an amputee.
Military applications:
1)Computer overlay maps projected through an eyepiece positioned over a soldier's right eye offer a view of the terrain ahead with out being exposed.
2) This system will allow them to move leaps and bounds ahead of the current infantrymen on the battlefield.
3) Assault weapons are fitted with thermal sights able to zero in on warm bodies through the fog of war.
4) Global positioning systems track the soldier's every step through forests or jungle and tell commanders exactly where everyone is while a battle rages.
CHALLENGES AND CONCERNS:
1) The brain communicates with itself through a complex, highly parallel communication process involving the firing patterns of neural impulses, biochemical stimulation that bathes the brain structures with highly tuned molecular structures, and methods as yet unknown. Just how information is stored, regenerated, and interpreted within brain circuits remains a major mystery, one unlikely to be solved soon. I’m sure, we can record neural firings from tens of neurons and we can stimulate neurons to create crude sensory images. But full-fledged, precise control of the expert performer eludes understanding. Note how easy it is for computers to perform tasks we find difficult, such as arithmetic calculations and precise memory and how difficult to perform tasks we find trivial, such as walking and talking, throwing and seeing, understanding and creating.
2) When we program something in computer language, we’re essentially devising different optimal ways of bending binary codes. So, if I were to be a cyborg having circuitry implanted in my body, what language should I use? The speed at which my nerves communicate is ultra fast than any super computer there may be. But maybe the smarties at silicon valley can come up with a language that can form a pretty good bridge between an electrical circuit and a neural circuit (Neural Networks or Genetic algorithms).
3) As a human being isolated in a biological body, I can choose to indulge or relinquish contact, but I doubt if I would have the same liberty as an online existent being. For example, when we chat, we project only those truths that we want to project. The same is about a website. I would not normally write in my website that I enjoy smoking although that is a truth from which I am trying to escape. As a CYBORG, if I were to upload my whole consciousness online for all eternity, how secure would I feel? Anybody worth his programming could hack into my life and read all about me, also insert whatever fancy stuff they feel should be a part of my life.
4) Today, we test athletes in an evermore difficult attempt to eliminate drug-enhanced performance. Some day we may have to do full X-ray (3D tomographic) scans in an ever-more difficult attempt to detect artificial implants. Why? Because it is possible.
F A Q
What did your first chip implant do? When did it take place?
For the first experimental chip implant, back in August 1998, the implant merely sent a signal to the computer in the department here in Reading, which identified me. So the computer was programmed to open doors, switch on lights etc. depending where I was. For the next experiment we will be sending signals from the nervous system - which is a lot more complex.
SATHAVAHANA CHOWDARY. B
PRAVEEN KOLLA
cyborg.doc (Size: 254.5 KB / Downloads: 108)
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
Human capability has long been limited by biology. Our mental and physical capabilities are limited. Athletes have pushed the limits of strength and endurance. Human working memory has always been limited to a relatively small number of items. Our minds, even of the most talented, are limited. And as we age, we go frail, both physically and mentally. Up to now, our advances in technology have functioned as accessories, enhancing our capabilities but not making any changes in our biology.
Now, we are able to develop a technology that helps us in the implantation of bio-electronic devices to amplify human thought, memory, vision, and muscle power. After these implants, a human-being becomes a Cyborg.
A CYBORG is a human-machine hybrid (cybernetic organism). It is part cybernetic and part human. Like all hybrids, Cyborgs provoke ambivalent responses. Their techno-bodies are represented super healthy, super clean and "more real than real" and their invulnerability makes them both seductive and potentially dangerous.
Introduction:
How might we interact with future computers? Let me list the ways: By gesture, by hand, foot and body motion, by the speed and forcefulness of our activities, by our thoughts, feelings and emotions, by where, how and when we look, by speech and sound, by music and touch. Imagine it and it shall come to pass? Not quite, but the potential is staggering, especially in the area of the cyborg—the implantation of bio-electronic devices to amplify human thought, memory, vision, and muscle power.
Cyborg is a cybernetic organism whose mental and physical and mental abilities are far extended by the machine technology.
It’s partly human and partly a machine.
WHY ?
The number of respected scientists predicting the advent of intelligent machines is growing exponentially. Steven Hawking, perhaps the most highly regarded theoretical scientist in the world and the holder of the Cambridge University chair that once belonged to Isaac Newton, said recently, "In contrast with our intellect, computers double their performance every 18 months. So the danger is real that they could develop intelligence and take over the world." He added, "We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it. The important message to take from this is that the danger that we will see machines with an intellect that outperforms that of humans—is real.The communication to robos is very difficult. There are certain grey areas in the man’s ability in order to rectify them
HOW CYBORGS ARE MADE..?
The chip is to be implanted in to our body, which consists of an array of electrodes. These electrodes are extremely thin, similar in dimension to a human hair. When implanted this get in contact with median nerve in order to record the reactions and simulate the nerves. The array is in turn in connected to the signal processing system through wires. The implant is a two way communication.
V ISUALISATIONS:
We think a lot isn’t it? We think logically , Analytically but we lack the processing capabilities.
What if we can get the processing capabilities of machine with our own way of thinking. No doubt we can create absolutely wonders.
8-Q This problem is keeping the 8 queens o chess board such that one queen should not face the other either diagonally ,horizontally or vertically squares.
There are nearly 96 different solutions to solve this problem. But, our computer performs 69,821 calculations of them only 2.34% of them are really needed.
So, a computer which can not think does all the calculations which are unnecessary.
SU-DO-KU:
Su-do-ku is another great puzzle which can be solved by computers in fraction of UEEN PROBLEM:
seconds but it can not be solved by us in that less time.
Because the processing capabilities of man are very less.
APPLICATIONS:
1) It is possible that the procedure could lead to a medical breakthrough for people paralyzed by spinal cord damage.
2) I hope to wire myself up to an ultrasonic sensor, used by robots to navigate around objects, to give myself a bat-like sixth sense.
3) The technique could be developed within a decade to restore movement to a tetraplegic's hand or feeling to a prosthetic leg used by an amputee.
Military applications:
1)Computer overlay maps projected through an eyepiece positioned over a soldier's right eye offer a view of the terrain ahead with out being exposed.
2) This system will allow them to move leaps and bounds ahead of the current infantrymen on the battlefield.
3) Assault weapons are fitted with thermal sights able to zero in on warm bodies through the fog of war.
4) Global positioning systems track the soldier's every step through forests or jungle and tell commanders exactly where everyone is while a battle rages.
CHALLENGES AND CONCERNS:
1) The brain communicates with itself through a complex, highly parallel communication process involving the firing patterns of neural impulses, biochemical stimulation that bathes the brain structures with highly tuned molecular structures, and methods as yet unknown. Just how information is stored, regenerated, and interpreted within brain circuits remains a major mystery, one unlikely to be solved soon. I’m sure, we can record neural firings from tens of neurons and we can stimulate neurons to create crude sensory images. But full-fledged, precise control of the expert performer eludes understanding. Note how easy it is for computers to perform tasks we find difficult, such as arithmetic calculations and precise memory and how difficult to perform tasks we find trivial, such as walking and talking, throwing and seeing, understanding and creating.
2) When we program something in computer language, we’re essentially devising different optimal ways of bending binary codes. So, if I were to be a cyborg having circuitry implanted in my body, what language should I use? The speed at which my nerves communicate is ultra fast than any super computer there may be. But maybe the smarties at silicon valley can come up with a language that can form a pretty good bridge between an electrical circuit and a neural circuit (Neural Networks or Genetic algorithms).
3) As a human being isolated in a biological body, I can choose to indulge or relinquish contact, but I doubt if I would have the same liberty as an online existent being. For example, when we chat, we project only those truths that we want to project. The same is about a website. I would not normally write in my website that I enjoy smoking although that is a truth from which I am trying to escape. As a CYBORG, if I were to upload my whole consciousness online for all eternity, how secure would I feel? Anybody worth his programming could hack into my life and read all about me, also insert whatever fancy stuff they feel should be a part of my life.
4) Today, we test athletes in an evermore difficult attempt to eliminate drug-enhanced performance. Some day we may have to do full X-ray (3D tomographic) scans in an ever-more difficult attempt to detect artificial implants. Why? Because it is possible.
F A Q
What did your first chip implant do? When did it take place?
For the first experimental chip implant, back in August 1998, the implant merely sent a signal to the computer in the department here in Reading, which identified me. So the computer was programmed to open doors, switch on lights etc. depending where I was. For the next experiment we will be sending signals from the nervous system - which is a lot more complex.