We are excited to share that we have received the FDA’s approval to launch our first-in-human clinical study!This is the result of incredible work by the Neuralink team in close collaboration with the FDA and represents an important first step that will one day allow our…— Neuralink (@neuralink) May 25, 2023
Imagine allowing a private corporation to implant a proprietary technology in your soul-jello.
Brain machine interface is the main one, in essence controlling machines with direct thought power.
Cool on paper, with open technology, not cool if proprietary, closed and controlled by literal monsters who may or may not drop support at any time ever leaving a chunk of outdated and no longer supported metal in your skull.
It's cool in science fiction. The only thing you can do with the current state of the art is move cursors around and play simple video games. And the state of the art is way better than what muskrat's people can do.
If you combine that method of control with AR headsets you have a computer that doesn't need a screen or buttons to press. Something like Google Glass becomes the phone itself, and the screen it projects for only the user is controlled entirely with internal thought.
There are definitely applications. But fuck off am I ever getting anything in my head that isn't completely open source.
I think I might remember Musk pulling from Nueralink to pay off Tesla's debts at some point, which leads me to believe that the real purpose is to get rubes to invest in it.
Has a purpose been stated for these devices, or are they just putting them in for fun essentially?
Brain machine interface is the main one, in essence controlling machines with direct thought power.
Cool on paper, with open technology, not cool if proprietary, closed and controlled by literal monsters who may or may not drop support at any time ever leaving a chunk of outdated and no longer supported metal in your skull.
It's cool in science fiction. The only thing you can do with the current state of the art is move cursors around and play simple video games. And the state of the art is way better than what muskrat's people can do.
If you combine that method of control with AR headsets you have a computer that doesn't need a screen or buttons to press. Something like Google Glass becomes the phone itself, and the screen it projects for only the user is controlled entirely with internal thought.
There are definitely applications. But fuck off am I ever getting anything in my head that isn't completely open source.
I think I might remember Musk pulling from Nueralink to pay off Tesla's debts at some point, which leads me to believe that the real purpose is to get rubes to invest in it.
sony already tried transcranial magnetic stimulation in the 00s, honestly think these nerds only want to mix hardware and wetware for the aesthetics
like if we can't grow some kind of computational substrate directly into our brainstems, why bother? just take the noninvasive option jfc
JUST LIKE THE CYBERPUNKERINOS :soypoint-1:
TMS supposedly works well for treating depression. It's next on my list of cool medical interventions to try to cure my treatment resistant bipolar.