05 Jun 2020

Cyborg: The Futuristic Artificial Intelligence approach

A cyborg, a compression of “cybernetic organism”, is a being with both natural and biomechatronic body parts. The term was begat in 1960 by Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline. The term cyborg isn’t a similar thing as bionic, biorobot or android; it applies to an organism that has reestablished work or improved capacities because of the incorporation of some fake segment or innovation that depends on a type of criticism. While cyborgs are ordinarily thought of as warm-blooded animals, including people, they may likewise possibly be any sort of organism. In sci-fi, the most conspicuous depiction of a cyborg is a person with obviously mechanical parts, for example, the superhuman Cyborg from DC Comics or the Borg from Star Trek. In any case, cyborgs may likewise be depicted as looking progressively like robots or increasingly like normal people [1]. Later on, for mankind, mind inserts could improve our memory. Embedded magnets or RFID chips embedded in our fingers could supplant passwords and keys. Exoskeletons could support our quality, and increase an entire scope of our human capacities. In this way, it will never be increasingly imperative to keep the highlights that make us human, for example, sympathy, inventiveness or the capacity for change. It is difficult to locate the correct harmony among innovation and being human, however. Individuals envision cyborgs ordinarily as mean animals consolidating some human and superhuman highlights in an automated body. Film characters, for example, the Terminator, Darth Vader or the Borgs in Star Trek ring a bell. Be that as it may, you don’t need to go the extent that Star Wars to get in contact with cyborg-like highlights or attributes. As indicated by the typical definition, a cyborg joins natural and technician body parts. However, a few researchers stretch this comprehension. They incorporate individuals with cochlear inserts, cardiovascular pacemakers or even contact focal points. As it were, it is substantial: the human body is expanded with innovation, and the two cooperates to improve human abilities. As mechanical advancements in the field of medication and human services duplicate step by step, it will be increasingly more common to expand our bodies with the assistance of machines. It makes us quicker, more grounded or progressively delicate to nature. This implies the limits of “human-ness” are extended bringing up genuine moral issues. Here, I present your genuine cyborgs, who show us the present limits of the conjunction of man and machine in one individual. What’s more, they may likewise stamp the route how to discover a harmony between the two. A portion of the world-acclaimed Cyborgs are [2]:

  • Neil Harbisson
  • Dr. Kevin Warwick
  • Jesse Sullivan
  • Nigel Ackland
  • Jerry Jalava
  • Cameron Clapp
  • Professor Steve Mann
  • Claudia Mitchell
  • Stelios Arcadio

Cyborgs are the relationship among cybernetics and organisms. Since both are in exponential advancement the meaning of cyborg is additionally in consistent change. We characterize cyborgism as the various kinds of connections among innovation and organisms. There is a contrast between the innovation that permits you to know things and the innovation that permits you to feel things. Cyborg Foundation centers around Artificial Senses (AS) where the upgrades are assembled by the innovation yet the intelligence is made by the human – instead of Artificial Intelligence (AI) where the intelligence is made by the machine itself [3]. Cyborg tissues organized with carbon nanotubes and plant or parasitic cells have been utilized in artificial tissue designing to create new materials for mechanical and electrical employments. The work was introduced by Di Giacomo and Maresca at MRS 2013 Spring meeting on Apr, third, talk number SS4.04. The cyborg acquired is modest, light and has exceptional mechanical properties. It can likewise be molded in the ideal structures. Cells joined with MWCNTs co-accelerated as a particular total of cells and nanotubes that framed a gooey material. Moreover, dried cells despite everything went about as a steady lattice for the MWCNT arrange. At the point when seen by optical microscopy the material took after an artificial “tissue” made out of profoundly pressed cells. The impact of cell drying is showed by their “phantom cell” appearance. A fairly explicit physical association among MWCNTs and cells was seen by electron microscopy proposing that the cell divider (the most external piece of parasitic and plant cells) may assume a significant dynamic job in setting up a CNTs system and its adjustment. This epic material can be utilized in a wide scope of electronic applications from warming to detecting and can possibly open significant new roads to be abused in electromagnetic protecting for radio recurrence gadgets and aviation innovation. Specifically, utilizing Candida albicans cells cyborg tissue materials with temperature detecting properties have been accounted for [1].
References
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg
2. https://medicalfuturist.com/the-worlds-most-famous-real-life-cyborgs/
3. https://www.cyborgfoundation.com/


Author –
Jyotir Moy Chatterjee
Assistant Professor - IT
LBEF Campus