Of course, recording your thoughts is only a fraction of the power we could be harnessing with iBrain. When you log in, your most-recent memories will get synchronized with the cloud, and are catalogued on-device in a trusted compute environment. This makes it simple to collect and share your thoughts, whether it's with your iPad or friends online. Your ideas go places, and we want to appreciate that with the architecture of iBrain.

We just know that consumers will love the iBrain. Our focus groups can't get enough of it, and we can't wait to open for pre-orders this September.

Black Mirror series 7 episode "Common People" shows such a future which I believe would not be far off the actual experience.

It does sound useful. Like go to the mall, look at a keyboard, immediately search up the reviews, then the price elsewhere, sort by nearby. Or in an interview or during a meeting, just search the answer on the spot.

Implants to regain communication or movement capabilities lost to brain injury are one thing. But since you asked about:

> basically augmenting your cognition with AGI-cloud

Being able to (somehow) mentally query the web (or some knowledge source) and wait for the result (which I imagine might be like touching an object to see if it is hot) would be maddening. I can imagine subjects getting stuck in loops, or the mental equivalent of doom-scrolling. The reward seeking mechanisms in our brains would just lock-on this stuff like mainlining a drug.

As for just having knowledge just appear in your mind, effortlessly - this could be even worse. There would be no boundaries. What happens to everyday activities? If you look at a sunset (say) or the face of someone you love, what does the implant's overlay do to the subjective experience? Of anything? It would be like never being alone or being eternally distracted, only exponentially worse.

I can easily imagine subjects being driven to psychosis or suicide.

And, of course, there will be advertising and porn, and malware and memetic replicators. Because there always are.

We're firmly in sci-fi territory here, hence my quoting of Neuromancer. 95% of the benefits of tech seem achievable via exterior devices, whether that be glasses, a phone, or some other thing. I don't see much reason to up the invasiveness 100x while only gaining a little bit of cognitive advantage.

I probably wouldn't get it, I have serious trust issues with that sort of thing

They can't even figure out how to secure cars, servers, banks, stores and well everything else. Make everything impossible to hack and even then I would not because every developer, product manager and others have an agenda that rears it's ugly head in code. Humans can not resist the power to control and manipulate other humans.

The transformation from latent space of thoughts in the form of brain signals is going to be much more difficult than building something that can interpret all the ways I can communicate with my body.

Some system that can track body movements, skin temp, pulse, respiration, facial expression, eye movements, and voice is more than sufficient to infer a lot of information, especially when its given training data on your own history.

My own brain’s meaning making functionality already provides narrative making meaning making and projecting meaning onto others - for free.

Give me a chip that puts me into zen mode.