Every day, Anicet Mbida makes us discover an innovation that could well change the way we consume.
This Wednesday, he is interested in a program called "iNeuraLS" based on brain stimulation to accelerate the learning of future US Air Force pilots.
Even innovation is American this morning.
We remember that scene from the movie "The Matrix" where the heroine receives helicopter pilot skills directly in her brain.
Today, reality is catching up with fiction.
The US military is launching a similar program to speed up the training of its pilots.
It will be like in the movie "The Matrix".
They will analyze the brain activity of their best pilots.
Then, they will use this information to stimulate the brains of the new recruits which should make them learn the maneuvers twice as fast.
You should know that the US Air Force is sorely lacking pilots at the moment.
She therefore launched the iNeuraLS program to speed up their training using brain stimulation.
And the first recruits will begin to receive small shocks in the brain, at the Wright-Patterson base in Ohio.
But are we sure it works?
Yes.
We have been working in this field for more than ten years.
Stimulating certain areas of the brain has been shown to allow neurons to make more connections and improve learning.
But not learning anything.
Only anything that combines memory and motor function.
So that will not allow you to become good at math.
But it can work for learning pilot maneuvers.
if we first find the right intensity and the precise place to stimulate.
This is the goal of the US military program.
Today, training a pilot can take years.
Ultimately, they hope to reduce it to a few months or even weeks.