Thinking about AI trying to fix my brain cured my depression, thanks.
Next-Gen Brain Implants Offer New Hope for Depression: AI and real-time neural feedback could transform treatments
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://spectrum.ieee.org/deep-brain-stimulation-depression
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schmorpel@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
AJ1@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Depression replaced with horror?
I’ll take it.
schmorpel@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Horror might be more entertaining than depression, but the sheer idea of letting some techbro implant shit in my brain is so ridiculous, I’d probably try DIY lobotomy before I consider the AI option.
Lightor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m not sad anymore but due to a branding deal I always crave a fresh bag of Lays chips. That crispy fresh flavor with just the right amount of seasoning hits the spot every time. Lays, betcha can’t eat just one. Anyways, at least I cry less now. You wanna get some Lays?
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
So, their AI is confidently wrong over 60% of the time, and they thought implanting it into people’s brains was a good idea?? Wtf???
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
All LLMs are AI, all AI is not an LLM.
jaxxed@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
This sounds like an absolute nightmare. Listen to the techbro leaders talk about the general population, and imagine them owning what manages your brain… Ieam electrically, as opposed to indirectly.
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Nope I’d definitely kill myself before letting an ai fuck with my brain
BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
In a sense, AI is already fucking with everyone’s brain when it comes to mass-produced ads and propaganda.
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
In a sense, I’m already planning on killing myself
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The non-technical public is scared of the word “AI”. When it has a whole spectrum of meanings and implications.
AI has been in use in medicine, engineering, municipal infrastructure…etc long before LLMs/GenAI.
Even new products today (Like those assistive exoskeleton legs) use AI to interpret and extrapolate bodily functions l. And wouldn’t work without it.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Lol! What the actual fuck? No.
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
I am not depressed, but I will never get a brain implant for any reason. The brain is the final frontier of privacy, it is the one place I am free. If that is taken away I am no longer truly autonomous, I am no longer truly myself.
I understand this is how older generations feel about lots of things, like smartphones, which I am writing this from, and I understand how stupid it sounds to say “but this is different!”, but like… really. This is different. Whatever scale smartphones, drivers licenses, personalized ads, the internet, smart home speakers… whatever scale all these things lie on in terms of “panopticon-ness”, a brain implant is so exponentially further along that scale as to make all the others vanish to nothingness. You can’t top a brain implant. A brain implant is fundamentally unspeakable horror which would inevitably be used to subjugate entire peoples in a way so systematically flawless as to be almost irreversible.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."
- Mahatma Ghandi
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
“What am I without my legs?” “What am I without my eyes?” “What am I without my arms?”
What counts as “the real me” has been evolving for decades, if not centuries. I’m not volunteering for brain implants, but I’m not writing off the idea sometime in the future. As for AI, this is going to be more of the ML variety, not the LLM variety. Think more of “neurochemical levels have been trending in a certain direction for too long, release opposing neurochemicals to halt the spiral” and less of a little voice inside your head giving quite possibly incorrect answers to whatever you’re thinking of.
This is absolutely risky stuff, but less risky than recurring electroshock therapy? Hard for me to say. Note that the article is from nearly 2 decades ago, but there are articles in the news from just the last couple weeks.
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Those are some good nuances that definitely require a nuanced response and forced me to refine my thinking, thank you! I’m actually not claiming that the brain is the sole boundary of the real me, rather it is the majority of me, but my body is a contributor. The real me does change as my body changes, just in less meaningful ways. Likewise some changes in the brain change the real me more than others. However, regardless of what constitutes the real me or not, (and believe me, the philosophical rabbit hole there is one I love to explore), in this case I’m really just talking about the straightforward immediate implications of a brain implant on my privacy. An arm implant would also be quite bad in this regard, but a brain implant is clearly worse.
There have already been systems that can display very rough, garbled images of what people are thinking of. I’m less worried about an implant that tells me what to do or controls me directly, and more worried about an implant that has a pretty accurate picture of my thoughts and reports it to authorities. It’s surely possible to build a system that can approximate positive or negative mood states, and in combination this is very dangerous. If the government can tell that I’m happy when I think about Luigi Mangione, then they can respond to that information however they want. Eventually, in the same way that I am conditioned by the panopticon to stop at stop sign, even in the middle of a desolate desert where I can see for miles around that there are no cars, no police, no cameras - no anything that could possibly make a difference to me running the stop sign - the system will similarly condition automatic compliance in thoughts themselves. That is, compliance is brought about not by any actual exertion of power or force, but merely by the omnipresent possibility of its exertion.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Guys its great! My depression is solved. I now love
PresidentKing Musk.Long Live the King! I am totally not being mind-controlled right now. 😵💫🤖
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No no no no no
AI can’t even do a google search right.
Keep that shit outta my head
Pro@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Don’t worry, I am sure you will change your mind after you get the implants.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
“I see the problem.”
Flicks switch
“They had you set to sad instead of happy. Classic mistake.”
snekerpimp@lemmy.snekerpimp.space 2 weeks ago
Corngood@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This seems interesting, i’ll read it fully after work if i don’t forget.
Something has me convinced i’m depressed but the only time i ever had the posibility to look for help they sort of just worked me towards the door and cut me off asap.
But they ended up giving me some sort of anti psychotic medication, which definitely allowed me to get back on my feet at the time. (Shit was dark, i fell in a hole with covid, homelessness and unemployment alltogether with my wife and reached a point where i struggled so much i couldn’t even get my ass to a job interview).
But i still don’t know what the cause of my struggles is, only that they’ve been around as long as i can remember. Some form of psychotic whatever wouldn’t surprise me either looking at my mom and what she did. But from what i know (which isn’t a lot obviously) it seems more like depression.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I likely had undiagnosed depression for decades before I got treatment, from a GP, no less, after being dismissed by a psychiatrist. If you have concerns about your health, keep trying to get help, as long as you’re able.
CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s been something i’ve thought about a lot, but at the moment it feels manageable to the point other things get priority.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve been depressed for three decades and nothing I’ve tried so far has worked, but I’ll be stone cold dead before they put fucking chips in my brain. /oldmanyellsatcloud.jpg
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Chronic depression since a traumatic event trigger in 1989 here. They can shove those chips up their own arse.
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Depressed ever since puberty when I realised that Hollywood isn’t real life.
OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Mega dose of mushrooms. Have you really tried everything? Micro dosing as well?
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I did, but long ago. Problem is when you’re taking ssri’s/snri’s, especially in large doses, mushrooms lose their effect. Taking psylocibin on these meds doesn’t do anything, you don’t even get visuals anymore, only a mild euphoria at best.