Is that what neuralink does? Stores all your memories? If so, that’s kinda cool. I’d love to have that…except for the glaringly obvious ethical & misuse risks leading to mistrust of the entire concept as noted in this comic, LOL
right now it’s got as far as putting the “chips” (actually more of a web like structure) into rats and monkey, causing them a great deal of pain and distress before killing them.
It’s stated aim is to turn neural activity into computer-readable information with the hope (heavy emphasis on hope) that the information will prove useful.
It is as yet unknown if the output will a) be possible and b) mean anything if it is.
The current blockers are that neuralink can’t yet read neuron activity, and any output it can send needs to be compresed by about 200x more than is currently possible by technology.
But wasn’t there ONE GUY who volunteered himself to be the first human neuralink recipient? He was good-natured about it, healthy & great personality but permanently wheelchair bound, and he was like, “Sure what the hell, I’m down to try it.”
Please tell me if I’m mis-remembering any of those details.
Neuralink the company implanted a non-neuralink device in a volunteers brain, the breakthrough being the technology to implant the device, not the device itself.
Implanting a brain probe is hardly a breakthrough. Implanting a fuckton, well that’s a bit different. There’s certainly got to be neurosurgery advances before we can get to what has been marketed
Is that what neuralink does? Stores all your memories? If so, that’s kinda cool. I’d love to have that…except for the glaringly obvious ethical & misuse risks leading to mistrust of the entire concept as noted in this comic, LOL
right now it’s got as far as putting the “chips” (actually more of a web like structure) into rats and monkey, causing them a great deal of pain and distress before killing them.
It’s stated aim is to turn neural activity into computer-readable information with the hope (heavy emphasis on hope) that the information will prove useful.
It is as yet unknown if the output will a) be possible and b) mean anything if it is.
The current blockers are that neuralink can’t yet read neuron activity, and any output it can send needs to be compresed by about 200x more than is currently possible by technology.
But wasn’t there ONE GUY who volunteered himself to be the first human neuralink recipient? He was good-natured about it, healthy & great personality but permanently wheelchair bound, and he was like, “Sure what the hell, I’m down to try it.”
Please tell me if I’m mis-remembering any of those details.
Neuralink the company implanted a non-neuralink device in a volunteers brain, the breakthrough being the technology to implant the device, not the device itself.
Implanting a brain probe is hardly a breakthrough. Implanting a fuckton, well that’s a bit different. There’s certainly got to be neurosurgery advances before we can get to what has been marketed