What Would the Big Data From Your Brain Tell You? - DZone Big Data

Amongst his other amazing projects, Elon Musk wants to help hook us up to our brains. According to a recent report in The Wall Street Journal, he is backing an operation called Neuralink, which is experimenting with putting electrodes in our brains to enhance their function. The benefits for a whole variety of conditions are obvious, but it poses a question: Is this venture into brain technology the start of the next space race? We have conquered many parts of our exterior world, but with lightning-fast improvements in AI technology, will human brains now be in a race to keep up with their robot AI cousins? This "neural lace" technology has so many real-world applications, and it could eventually mean that an entirely different "class" of people emerges -- but I would just like to ask the question whether it would be entirely healthy to have intimate access to every single thought that has ever crossed our mind.