Why so pessimistic? With any luck brainchips will mean the end of annoying adverts once and for all. You’ll just feel an unexpected desire to acquire certain products. And maybe crippling headaches or a nauseating feeling of unease if you ignore these urges
Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year
isaaclyman@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I think we all know where this is going.
- The Brainchip is trendy in Silicon Valley but doesn’t do much yet. The company says cyber-superintelligence will be available in a year, tops. Investors are pouring billions into it. Everyone says you need to hop on the trend now or you’ll be obsolete in six months.
- It’s been two years. The Brainchip still struggles to control a mouse or search Google. Everyone’s lost interest in building apps for it. Many users are reporting severe migraines, but the company says there’s nothing to worry about.
- The Brainchip pipes three unskippable ads directly to your optic nerve every time you go to the bathroom. Notifications ping your brain all day long. You can get it removed if you’ve got $80k to burn, but there’s a high risk of postoperative stroke.
Yeah, no, I’m not putting anything in my body that isn’t open-source from end to end. And even then probably nah.
bampop@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 weeks ago
this isn’t for you, you’re not a paraplegic, are you?
isaaclyman@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The article does not mention paraplegia.
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 weeks ago
Why does it have to? All current bci’s are designed for the disabled, why would this one be an exception?
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
So rich people can make money on the hype and sale of a new product to the masses?
you know, like literally everything?
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 weeks ago
The Brainchip is trendy in Silicon Valley but doesn’t do much yet.
These guys would beg to differ:
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
the only way, and I mean the ONLY way I’ll put hardware in my brain is if I have resurrection level support like in Altered Carbon.
the fear of losing my outward identity over the ability to live forever is worth losing.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
You still won’t be able to live forever.
lucelu2@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I wonder how often you have to back up in case you need a reboot.