If Neuralink can prove its device is safe in humans, it would still potentially take more than a decade for the start-up to secure commercial use approval

If Neuralink can prove its device is safe in humans, it would still potentially take more than a decade for the start-up to secure commercial use approval

    • Yewb@kbin.social
      33·
      1 year ago

      Dude cant even get the software on teslas to work right and we are going to trust him with brain implants? Lol

        • hoilst@kbin.social
          23·
          1 year ago

          They were going to ask for volunteers from Musk’s legions of loyal fans, but then they realised the subjects needed to have brains.

          • Maeve@kbin.social
            5·
            1 year ago

            Just finished my first cuppa and had a nice and literal lol. Thanks for starting my day right!

          • hoilst@kbin.social
            21·
            1 year ago

            I just love the assumption that we have to have brain implants (why? Because L. Ron Musk said so?)

            • GreatBigJerk@kbin.social
              13·
              1 year ago

              I think it’s the sci-fi fantasy of it. Like being able to download knowledge like the matrix.

              In reality the real use of these is to help people with brain injuries or disabilities.

              Elno wants to grift people on the former. Literally everything he does is selling people the knock off wish version of something from a sci-fi movie/book/game.

              • Magzter@kbin.social
                4·
                1 year ago

                Musk aside, BCI will be a significant part of human lives in the distant future, they will initially aid existing tech but as the technology advances I can forsee a black mirror-esque future with our brains having a digital component.

    • Astigma@feddit.uk
      25·
      1 year ago

      Yeah same here, I’m much more curious about Valve’s foray into BCIs. GabeN mentioned in an interview a few years ago that they’re closer than we think and I want to know what he’s cooking up.

  • FiskFisk33@kbin.social
    34·
    1 year ago

    I’mma call it right here, shot will go south, quickly, people will end up in prison, and Musk will somehow not be one of them.

    i give it max a year or two after the first implant before we read about trials starting in the headlines.

  • LostCause@kbin.social
    25·
    1 year ago

    Exactly what we need, billionaires tinkering with brain chips. I‘d rather die than have anything from Musk in my head, bad enough the knowledge of his existence is in there.

  • HubertManne@kbin.social
    13·
    1 year ago

    This is all you need to know from the article:

    “On at least four occasions since 2019, Musk predicted that Neuralink would soon start human trials.”

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
    13·
    1 year ago

    Where are all those people who were worried vaccines had chips in them? Now this guy is literally saying he’s going to chip you and nothing lol

      • skogens_ro@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        I don’t believe in the vaccine-chip nonsense, but I think there’s consistency there: it’s about informed consent. There’s a huge difference between being told by the government to take a vaccine that secretly has a chip in it, and Elon Musk offering chips for sale. If you choose to buy Musk’s chip, you’re doing so voluntarily and you know that you are getting a chip.

        Plus, how many of the tinfoil hats are cheering on Neuralink?

        • goat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          The difference is that the vaccine physically can’t have a chip. It’s impossible for that level of technology to be injected into muscle through a needle.

          • skogens_ro@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            Yeah there are numerous reasons why the conspiracy theory doesn’t hold.

            But that’s besides the point. Let’s say they thought the vaccine secretly contained benzos in order to make the population more docile or whatever. That doesn’t mean they need to object to any use of the drug in order to be consistent. The problem would be that the government is secretly injecting the population for nefarious reasons, which would be a valid concern if there were any truth to it.

  • exohuman@kbin.social
    13·
    1 year ago

    I’m neurodivergent and I would love a chip to help with that, but this company decided it’s leader is Musk and I don’t trust him. He used to be a hero in my eyes until the Twitter fiasco. Then I saw him for what he was.

  • tomve_cz@kbin.social
    10·
    1 year ago

    He said a lot of things … He’s like Trump - full mouth of words but reality is always another thing

  • Untitled9999@kbin.social
    9·
    1 year ago

    This is completely dystopian.

    As others have said, Elon should test this on himself before he tests it on others, if he’s really so confident in it.

    It is inevitable that this will have negative health effects, and when that happens, Elon will just wipe his hands and say “not my problem”.

  • Singletona@kbin.social
    8·
    1 year ago

    Given a descendant of this technology has the potential for seizure moderation, which is something my sister basically will need as the medication she uses will inevitably require doses that would destroy her liver or leave her all but vegetative. It’s super interesting from a technical aspect and hyper-relevant.

    However, given Musk’s antics especially as of late? I wouldn’t trust him to not accidentally intentionally kill people, or use it as a way to have an unremovable keylogger with the end goal of ‘Oh those are some nice eyes you’ve got there,’ or ‘lovely able to live without going into convulsions isn’t it? It’d be a shame if that changed.’

  • CynAq@kbin.social
    7·
    1 year ago

    I want a brain chip in theory.

    I don’t want any current human to have anything to do with it. The average human’s comprehension of life, consciousness, what it is to be human etc are so far behind ideal, I wouldn’t trust anyone currently alive to start testing a direct brain-computer interface.

    In several hundred years when we have Trek style space communism, sure!

      • Astigma@feddit.uk
        2·
        1 year ago

        The Ferengi’s 34th rule of acquisition is: War is good for business. They themselves never waged war though, curiously.

        • Flaky_Fish69@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          Depends on how you defined war.

          The ferengi ship where Picard makes first second or third contact above the power draining planet was an equal to the enterprise.

          “Oh but the federation doesn’t build warships”… the enterprise is more than a match for romulan and Klingon battle ships.

          • Astigma@feddit.ukEnglish
            0·
            1 year ago

            The Ferengi have a military sure but its primary use is to protect their enterprises, not to wage war on other factions. Also who are you talking to that claimed the federation doesn’t build warships? It certainly wasn’t me.

            • Flaky_Fish69@kbin.social
              1·
              1 year ago

              The federation itself.

              The defiant was a big deal because it was a warship, and the Feds “don’t do that”. Even though most their ships are in fact heavily armed and capable of at least holding their own against “dedicated” warships of (frequently very) hostile civilizations

              • Astigma@feddit.ukEnglish
                0·
                1 year ago

                I see where you’re coming from. The Defiant-Class are definitely a purposefully designed “Warship” and the first Starfleet has made in a long time at that point. Yeah I concede the point. I look at a ship like the Galaxy-Class with its phaser arrays etc and I think warship but it was built and designed during a time of peace, Starfleet wouldn’t have viewed it as a warship.

                • Singletona@kbin.social
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  It’s an exploration ship… that’s almost big enough to qualify as a mobile starbase given the civilian population. Having armaments isn’t stupid, especially given how often they rejiggered the phasers to act as a tool rather than a weapon.

        • Singletona@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          35th rule of acquisition: Peace is good for Business.

          Or maybe it’s the other way around I always get those two mixed up.

      • Flaky_Fish69@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        So… Star Trek…

        The only thing the Federation really did was convince people to work for free. They still had wars- lots of them, in fact- still had a military (one which trained kids in the field thought it was a good idea to have kids on battleships “exploration” ships)