Bio-hacking humans: People implanting chips in hands and heads (www.fox5ny.com)

The line between man and machine is blurring as people implant microprocessors in their bodies.

NEW YORK – It’s a technological advancement that seemed incomprehensible a generation ago and now appears inevitable. From a microchip implanted subdermally, to a robot learning to imagine itself and its own purpose, and a tiny microprocessor implanted directly on the brain.

“Our lives are gonna be intertwined with robots and A.I. increasingly, in complex ways that we can’t even imagine today,” said Columbia University engineering and data science professor Hod Lipson.

He describes it as the inevitable fusing of the physical and digital worlds. In his robotics lab on the Manhattan campus, groundbreaking projects are underway.

“We want robots to understand what they are, how they move, how they operate,” he said.

It’s sophisticated machine learning, allowing the robot to literally wake up and discover itself.

“With that knowledge, it can imagine itself into the future,” he said.

It’s an extension of human thought, allowing mankind and machine to exist more efficiently.

“Robotics used to be something like okay, maybe you had a vacuum cleaning robot, you step over it, you move on, but now it’s it’s going to be everywhere,” Lipson said. “There’s drones, this, you’re going to trust your life to a self-driving car, you’re gonna trust the life of your children, to a robot. I mean, this is this was unthinkable just a few years ago, and it’s inevitable.”

If that’s a nuanced concept of man’s evolution with machines what Brandon Dalaly is doing is much more direct.

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