Your thoughts on a potential hybrid brain?

From memory, the idea was first floated by a neuroscientist at a conference in the early 2000s. I can't recall what timeframes were discussed in terms of the potential achievement of this, but it was presumed to be a relatively distant goal, likely mid century. This idea is something that has been at the back of my mind for a while. <br><br>I presumed this was an idea of something to be done when what I term "blood-based" AI isn't close enough to human cognition to better sim people, and that really with the first full human brain scan that would be a moot point, but I was thinking this could be something that is done at an earlier point in time.<br><br>Doing the 80/20 idea of bringing in a few key AI pieces to the human brain may provide us with faster leaps in terms of creating a more powerful human brain, as opposed to bringing the AI side up to human cognition. It raised a number of questions including how they would be linked, how they would communicate, how would something even be bridged with the existing brain architecture.<br><br>Has there been any more recent discussion on this, or is this something that has gone to the wayside? If anyone is aware of anything on this topic, I would appreciate leads.