The human mind needs help in the form augmentation of its capabilities and capacity, but I am not convinced invasive implants are the way for two reasons: 1) you’ll need brain surgery every time you decide to change hardware for any reason, which will suck if you’re immunocompromised for any reason, which can also happen naturally as you age; 2) invasive hardware will be hard to remove at will.
I think there are different ways to augment human cognition without implants, and these less invasive methods need to be considered first. One simple and tractable method which may be easy to implement, but hard to perfect, is to create a mechanism for offloading tasks as a learned “thought process” to any number of autonomous agents called on demand. If the system relies on vocalization, then it’s not different from voice assistants, whereas if it relies on multi-step prompting, then it’s not reducing the cognitive load of the person using it. There are various nuances even for this relatively simple concept, but I think it’s one of the more doable research quests.
I think there are different ways to augment human cognition without implants, and these less invasive methods need to be considered first. One simple and tractable method which may be easy to implement, but hard to perfect, is to create a mechanism for offloading tasks as a learned “thought process” to any number of autonomous agents called on demand. If the system relies on vocalization, then it’s not different from voice assistants, whereas if it relies on multi-step prompting, then it’s not reducing the cognitive load of the person using it. There are various nuances even for this relatively simple concept, but I think it’s one of the more doable research quests.