Technology

Maybe I'm cynical, but this seems like something that would be incredibly easy to fake

This is gonna end up like those people who got an implant to be able to see, and when the company went under, they lost support and their eyesight

This is fantastic, but I am extremely worried about it being in the control of Elon Musk.

And now we wait. Quick reminder about the Monkeys, which still haunt me.

What they shown so far does not sound impressive. There is a twitch streamer that uses EEG device ans translates signals to button presses. She has beaten elden ring with that. From "achievement" point of view what they have shown here is not that special

We've all been playing Mario Kart with our minds already, using our mind to manipulate those fleshy sticks attached to our shoulders. It's fuckin amazing.

The only usefulness this has is to help someone who can't do that. And the fact that it's attached to Elon and that all previous test subjects died and that it's still been put in a human is pretty dystopian.

There is no way I am putting proprietary hardware and especially proprietary software into my brain.

How much is the subscription for ad-free thinking? Or is it free for non-commercial use?

I didn’t know about people, but there is no way I am getting a fucking electronic chip installed in my brain, no matter how cool it might be

It should only ever be imo used to help the disabled and that too without any involvement of someone like elon

Wait until Nintendo's lawyers hear about this. Pretty sure brain chip compatible Nintendo controllers count as illegal homebrew.

Heads-up, there appears to be some astroturfing going around. This is not an impressive demo, I've seen better without brain implants. If anything, I'm more impressed that the test subject hasn't died yet.

Neuralink hasn't address the security complications, hopefully their engineers know what are they doing

I hate Elon but love the idea of this. The utopian version, not the dystopian version obviously.

We are really going to have to make sure that regulation is solid if we want to go towards the positive utopian version.

Something similar existed in 2013 already:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/now-you-can-control-video-games-with-your-thoughts-alone-2005031/

This is cool but they burned through a bunch of monkeys to get here.

Also, fuck Elon.

I've seen this kind of thing as well as people given an entirely new sense (a sense of direction similar to how birds can sense magnetic north) with just an EEG cap. Why would you need to implant something directly in the brain to do this?

The same can be achieved with non-implanted BCI. Why get invasive surgery?

Bullshit until proven otherwise. Dangerous and stupid regardless. And a depressing harbinger of the corpo cyberpunk dystopia whether this is real or totally faked.

It hopefully won't be an Elon company, but someone is gonna mangle a TON of pigs and monkeys to make this tech ready work.

Humanity needs to understand what it will take. Even the highest standards of specimen care are still horrific.

Not supertuxcart ? I'm dissapointed and my day is ruined.

I see where this is going. FSD 2.0 will use human in the loop, saving money on cameras and LIDAR.

I wonder if they still lean in to the turns. I can't not do that.

How many years of software updates? 😆