I was thinking more a vegetable than a borg drone.
Comment on Neuralink's first in-human brain implant has experienced a problem, company says
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Before anyone gets too excited: some of their electrodes are no longer able to record a signal from the patient’s brain. They’re reprogramming their software to work with fewer electrodes. No one is being turned into a borg drone.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
gregorum@lemm.ee 6 months ago
That is still a pretty serious issue. It’s not something you should downplay
brsrklf@jlai.lu 6 months ago
I don’t know. Even if the outcome is just that the implant just stop working, with no other issue, it’s looking pretty bad to me.
Since it required literal brain surgery just to be installed, which I assume is already a serious risk, it’s not something you want to potentially be useless.
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
The implant is already malfunctioning after a few months. Makes you wonder how many more of these threads will retract over the next following months.
aniki@lemm.ee 6 months ago
All of them. The body doesn’t want foreign materials inside it at any point. You can’t just jam wires into your body and expect your immune system to not attack it. The organ interface problem as far as I know has never been solved.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We jam stuff into our body for all sorts of things.
Some require rejection meds for life. Others don’t.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Especially in less than 4 to 5 months. Damn thing was put in back in January and is already failing.
mihies@kbin.social 6 months ago
No one is being turned into a borg drone.
Yet.
protist@mander.xyz 6 months ago
You, too, will be assimilated.
cm0002@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No one is being turned into a borg drone.
Damn. I finally thought this would be the year :(
prole@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
No one is being turned into a borg drone.
Yeah nobody is worried about this.
KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 6 months ago
A software patch for a hardware failure.
Sounds like what they do at Tesla, too.
tja@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Well it’s also what NASA is doing. Only logical if you don’t want to dig it out again.
mynachmadarch@kbin.social 6 months ago
Do you mean with the Voyager FDS? There's a big difference between patching a system 30+ years past it's planned mission date because at everyone's amazement it just keeps going and being valuable versus the Neuralink developing issues a few months after being installed when many expected it to fail because of the news of high failure rate among the primate test subjects beforehand.
escaped_cruzader@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Well, rocket science is not brain surgery