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Symposium keynote

The 31st International Symposium on Controversies in Psychiatry
April 2025
Generative AI: GPT-5 & brain-machine interfacing
Dr Alan D. Thompson
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From Elon Musk’s Neuralink to ‎Dr Mary Lou Jepsen’s Openwater.

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Resolving…
Disability: Memory loss¹, Hearing loss¹, Blindness¹, Paralysis¹, Stroke^1,3, Brain damage¹.
Disorder: Depression¹, Anxiety¹, Insomnia¹, Seizure¹, Addiction¹, Extreme pain¹, Autism², Schizophrenia².
Learning difficulty: ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia, Dyspraxia, Auditory processing.

Augmenting…
High ability: Full Scale IQ, Creativity, Prodigious memory, Rapid processing, Enhanced thinking³, Thought transfer^3,4

Sources:
Neuralink: https://neuralink.com/applications
Openwater: https://openwater.cc/technology
1: Neuralink presentation. (28 Aug 2020).
2: Lex Fridman Podcast with Elon Musk. (13 Nov 2019).
3: Mary Lou Jepsen (Openwater). The science of visible thought and our translucent selves. TEDxSanFrancisco. (7 Oct 2016).
4: JRE Experience Podcast with Elon Musk., Episode #1470 (8 May 2020).
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