When ChatGPT Converges with Brain Computer Interface: The Reboot of Everything

Nothing ever happens in a silo. Emerging Technologies in any era, are never end-alls in themselves that shape any future at all. It is the eventual convergence of Emerging Technologies of each time period that renders the futures different from the pasts. It is no different with AI Language Models like ChatGPT that has been the dominant reason for excitement over technology at the start of 2023.

As it is, the prospect of AI Language Models becoming Voice-Enabled (not the same as the current AI Voice Applications as of 2023), which in fact is already happening as at the time of me writing this, implies us having meaningful, useful and intelligent conversations with the entire Worldwide Web, to instantly draw precise information as we require at its optimal, to aid rapid decisions and transform the entire landscape of HR and Work. That is only the start of where AI Language Models get exciting. It is not the end.

Thinking in Collaboration with the WORLD

In my free eBook Life in Techtopia released in February 2022, I have substantially described and elaborated upon the human experience resulting from the convergence of the Internet, Brain Computer Interface (BCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

With Bard, ChatGPT, YouChat, and the likes, we are heading towards that precise future, where we won't just talk to the entire internet (with voice-enablement), but we will collaboratively think, on the move, at any time (in fact, all the time) and at any place (in fact everywhere), at will and in real time, with the entire Worldwide Web, along with everyone who happens to be online in the moment and everything "Smart" that is connected - When AI Language Models converge with the final frontier of methods for humans to interface with technology; Brain Computer Interface. So much for the geniuses who have been dismissing the Global Brain, which in actually reality has been rapidly forming for at least over a decade now. And I know many will yet continue to dismiss the idea of the "Global Brain", until it reaches its full premise.

Thought vs Speech

Voice-enabled AI language models will not disrupt anything. They will render obsolete and they will replace. That is a big difference.

Human Customer Service people on "voice calls" at all levels of hierarchy or expertise, everywhere, in any industry, will become history. They will not exist.

Almost all jobs, the titles of which carry the term "Analyst" will be completely redundant and obsolete. The people who work above such roles, will do what perhaps hundreds of "Analysts" currently do for them across the span of a calendar month, entirely on their own, much better, virtually for free, and virtually instantly.

While educators will never be replaced by technology, the teaching and educating methods of today, will no longer exist. The educators, or teachers, will govern the process of learning for students or pupils under their respective charges, rather than manage classrooms. There is a huge difference right there: Teaching redefined and reinvented.

With Brain Computer Interface in convergence with AI Language Models though, the impacts will be far greater and yet far more redefining. If you think what I describe about Voice-enabled AI Language Models translates to speed, consider, how much faster are you able to think, than you are able to speak (I am not talking about people who hold the supernatural ability to speak before they think).

And do not be fooled by the term "Brain Computer Interface". What the term really means, is that you no longer interface with the computer at all. What it means, is that you think, and technology intelligently and autonomously executes immediately, that which you are thinking. It also means that anything that is "software" about technology dovetails directly, spontaneously and ubiquitously with your thought train. Your mind ubiquitously guides ubiquitous technology effortlessly.

On the reverse, the Web can and will guide your thoughts. This is an existential level upgrade that exponential because we will just several rungs on the evolutionary ladder of our experience, because what would otherwise take years to learn, without reaching the level of mastering it, technology can guide you to work on or perform, instantly, at your will or necessity.

Imagine, for perspective. An untrained person, guided by the internet, is able to conduct an emergency neurosurgery, successfully, to save a life. No, we would never want that sort of a situation. The point is however, that when the technology behind ChatGPT, enhanced and evolved, no longer merely responds to your queries, but actively collaborates with your thought process through BCI, the speed of knowledge acquisition, processing and application, becomes instantaneous as such. Truly, when that happens, it will be almost a case of "impossible is nothing". That, is our future.

X Reality and Techtopia

The future is not about standalone, online only Metaverse platforms. It is about limitless interaction and creation.

The future is not about engineered realities of enhanced audio-visual experiences. The future is about transcendence of the lines between the actual and the virtual, between the digital and the physical, between the natural and the engineered. The future is X Reality.

The future is about visualizing mentally, for a second, a physical object, and it being instantly and autonomously being 3D-Printed with programmable 4D-material, fitting precisely what you imagine it to be, without error, with dynamic functions, even when you have no artistic or technical know-how in object or product design and creation. The convergence of BCI and AI Language Models will not deliver those results. The convergence of BCI and AI Language Models is a crucial catalytic step in the direction of that future, to bring about an end to all barriers between human imagination and will, and technology. The future is about a Technological Utopia at the end of that: Techtopia.

Also Read: The Internet of Robotic Things: The Biggest Revolution in Goods Production Yet

The Reboot

The game will be wholly new, rendering everything prior obsolete, when it comes to invention and innovation.

The convergence of BCI and AI Language Models will mean that prior training and education will be no bar, to creating objects, systems, products, programs, new software capabilities, building ubiquitous cyber-physical systems or machines. With real time collaborative thinking between the individual and the entire world, mediated by AI Language Models, without the speed of the fingers, the speed of the tongue, interfaces and language itself as bars, such creation becomes possible for just about anyone and everyone, everywhere. No limits. No boundaries.

Business

The business library will have to be torn down and rebuilt, in an environment where studying the market is about being mentally connected to the Global Brain, to instantly capture the need somewhere, that one can fulfil with one's existing resources in the shortest time, at the precise price which the market can afford, and yet that which can deliver a profit, and where finance can never be too complex for any aspiring entrepreneurial mind to comprehend.

Also Read: The Future of Management: Managing Human Wisdom in Robotic Spaces

Work

Economically productive work will be about thinking within the Global Brain, to optimally monetize on what one loves to do. And hence, Techtopia.

Education

The future of education, will be about technology, through mediation by AI Language Models, identifying early, the preferences, the strengths, the limitations and interests of individuals at learning. What this will enable, is in a way not possible before the convergence between BCI and AI Language Models, the mass customization and personalization of curriculum delivery, educational pathway and research guidance, from early childhood education, right through to the end of doctoral education, tailored to the strength areas and thinking styles of each individual. It will be the biggest step achieved, in humanizing education.

Ending Remarks

If you really want a bigger picture about what the world looks like where you can think collaboratively as part of the Global Brain thanks to the convergence of AI and Brain Computer Interface technology, have a look at my free eBook, Life in Techtopia

Harish Shah is Singapore's first local born Professional Futurist and a Management Strategy Consultant. He runs Stratserv Consultancy. His areas of consulting and Keynote Topics include EmTech, Industry 4.0, HR, Digital Transformation, Product Development, X Reality, Marketing, Strategic Foresight, Systems Thinking and Organisational Future Proofing. In an Open Letter in 2019, Harish has called on his fellow Futurists around the world to raise the emphasize upon the need for Environmental Salvation, in the course of their work.

In 2022, Harish released his first Futurist eBook titled: Life in Techtopia (available for free reading, download or request in PDF format)