New Therapeutic Brain Implants Could Defy the Need for Surgery
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MIT researchers claim to have developed therapeutic brain implants that don't require surgery, but commenters are skeptical about the feasibility and ethics of such technology.
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I'm obviously thinking how do they get it into the brain then.
First thought is through the ear or up the nose, Second thought, they remove an eye.
maybe ai is going to do some invasive work, and because it is ai, you dont have to call it surgery. Or even a nanobot ai surgeon.
no surgery at all, no boss nuffin,
Is this the same MIT who recent withdrew a paper claiming 82% of online ransomware attacks were done by ai.