Scientists Connect the Human Brain to the Internet

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Scientists connect the human brain to the internet for the FIRST time EVER

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Ivan  

In what is hailed as a major scientific breakthrough, researchers have managed to connect the human brain to the internet for the first time ever.

In research thought to be the world’s first, biomedical engineers from the Witz University have connected the human brain to the internet in real time.
Researchers at Wits University have linked a human brain directly to the Internet. The data collected from this project could help pave the next steps in learning machines and brain-computer interfaces.

The project has been dubbed as “Brainternet” and essentially turns the brain into an “Internet of Things” (a network of connected physical objects) within the World Wide Web. The project works through electroencephalography (EEG) signals from brain waves gathered by a device connected to the user’s head, a statement said reads on the website of Medical Express.
The signals are transmitted to a low-cost Raspberry Pi computer, which communicates them to the application’s interface, visualizing an open internet site, where anyone can view its activity.

What does this mean? Well, basically its a special window into someone else’s neural activity that has open access.
While this may not sound as much, it is a major breakthrough which paves the way for future technologies such as advanced artificial intelligence.

“Ultimately, we’re aiming to enable interactivity between the user and their brain so that the user can provide a stimulus and see the response,” project coordinator Adam Pantanowitz, a lecturer in the Wits School of Electrical and Information Engineering, said in a statement.

Pantanowitz adds that “Brainternet can be further improved to classify recordings through a smartphone app that will provide data for a machine-learning algorithm.”

Essentially, this means that in the near future, “there could be information transferred in both directions – inputs and outputs to the brain,” says Pantanowitz.

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