I can believe people took up on this offer. As the saying goes drowning man will reach for straws. Issue is they probably oversold reliability and safety.
Comment on Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip
Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I can’t believe anyone willingly got this after the monkey testing thing. They have to be taking advantage of people not fit to make decisions for themselves.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 month ago
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The patient became quadriplegia in a car accident, I wouldn’t call it unfit for decisions but definitely desperate to find a sense of normalcy.
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Guy has nothing left to lose really, I don’t blame him for taking this risk considering I would strongly consider it myself
slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes, infortunately this is the case. In an article I read the guy was able to pay chess and Age of Empires with his thoughts and the chip, quite impressive tech indeed, it’s just that you absolutely cannot trust anything near Musk
curiousPJ@lemmy.world 1 month ago
OCZ back in the day had a brainwave game controller…
TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
The only thing he could lose is only a few important brain functions, if something truly does go wrong. Nothing major.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean, in that position I’d probably be willing to gamble with my life. Not with Musk involved, but if there was a similar opportunity without his involvement. It would be an honorable death, too, as long as it didn’t result in a halt on the research.
If I could fully trust the ones doing it, there is a certain % of death risk I’d be willing to take as a healthy person once the tech is more mature. The possibilities of such technology are endless, especially as the tech becomes more interactive rather than just observing and acting on those observations. I’m not sure if I’d want to live in the Matrix, but I’d love to at least visit it or play VR games based on that tech. Altered Carbon would be interesting, too.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Not many options I guess. Sucks to have to gamble on the crazy billionaire with a lot of faulty shit.
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I thought the goal was to reconnect the brain to the spinal cord though.
But dude is still stuck in a wheelchair, and so far it’s basically been just a fancy experimental mouse cursor? Installed in his brain? And already failing?..
VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Watching his videos he’s a clever snd self aware guy more than capable of thinking for himself. Hate Elon but you don’t need to shit on the disabled by acting like being in a wheelchair means you can’t think for yourself
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You totally missed my point. I wasn’t shitting on the disabled fella at all. I was 100% shitting on the Neuralink chip, which is supposedly being developed and promoted as a way of fixing paralysis.
The fact that the man is still in a wheelchair means that Neuralink has achieved 0% of it’s ultimate intended goal. It’s just a fancy mouse cursor (and probably keyboard) so far.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I don’t really keep up with Elon moon shits, but I think the idea is to substitute the brains neurological commands. Research is still on the “read” stage, like knowing what information the brain is requesting. Eventually neurolink will also need to discover how to relay those signals back to the nervous system in a way it understands, engaging muscles and such, effectively rebuilding the bridge that was damaged. But I’m not smart, this is just how I understood it.
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And they already killed how many monkeys testing this stuff? Last I heard was that they tested 15 monkeys or so, and 13 of them ended up dying or having to be euthanized after only a few months.
They already admitted they had problems with their brain electrodes corroding after a few months or so…
I like to keep my noodle intact thank you very much. Even if I was a vegetable, I wouldn’t want a chip in my head that’s known to have corroding wires.
Psythik@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wait, is that what these brain chips are for? Well now I can’t hate on them as much as I used to if they’re meant to help people learn how to walk again. I thought it was just supposed to help you process thoughts more quickly or something, like a math coprocessor in an old 90s PC.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It’s one use, I’ve heard their designs described as opening the brain’s io processes. Once the “data lanes” are available, it’s then the “applications” that implement the uses over it. That could mean adding a math coprocessor, or correcting vision issues, or getting tweets beamed into your mind. Roll the dice on a musk project 🤷