It may be that we will never be able to create machines that have consciousness like ours. I believe that we will be able to create machines that mimic human behavior to a large degree, but it may be technically impossible to go that last mile from mimicking human behavior to true consciousness.
That being said, this and other technologies will allow us to put more computing power in smaller spaces with less weight and less power. Think of what this could do for drones. You could create really small fly-like drones with ridiculous amounts of sensing and computing powers. Cell phones could disappear into our heads, or maybe just implanted somewhere near or inside our ears. We could all have heads-up displays in our eyes so that when we looked out on a city block we would see Yelp reviews superimposed over each of the restaurants and shops.
Things might get a bit creepy and maybe a bit too Orwellian, but there will be all those cool new gadgets to play with.
incredible. I’ve read they are going to make robots the size of blood cells to repair the body.i as someone who still has the effects of a brain injury, not so much the intellectual effects but physical effects, I wonder if in 10 years the strides may help. And of course I hope they help people with cancer and Parkinsons and Alzheimers. the issues I have now are quite the nuisance and scary but not life altering. Of course the fear is that they would be down the line. That’s why I hope technology will catch up lol.
The heads-up displays would not be physically implanted in our eyes. It would be part of that cell phone implant you mentioned, most likely on or in the brain. It would merge display information into the data sent by our eyes along the optical pathways into the brain. I read an article recently, about a quadriplegic who received a brain implant on the cerebral cortex, allowing him to move robotic arms to serve his needs (like feeding and drinking for himself), just by thinking what he wanted the robotic arms to perform. The cerebral cortex is responsible for higher brain functions like thought, reasoning and memory. These devices are being tested now on humans, and after FDA approval we will be able to have these cool new gadgets.