Well yeah fuck that guy and this program and it’s implications, but this particular issue doesn’t sound too unexpected considering the scope of the procedure.
I’m all for the science, but you know this is going to be some directly streamed ads hellspace we’ll never escape from if it comes to fruition.
Here’s a good rule for this sort of thing to move forward: No implants before right to privacy and freedom from advertising.
Honestly I agree. I don’t think Elon Musk has demonstrated the good judgement that means a company he’s in charge of should be in there fuckin with people’s brains, but reading the article it sounds pretty frickin cool what they’re doing. I hope it works out and good things come out of it.
I don’t think Elon Musk has demonstrated the good judgement
Understatement of the century right here.
Can’t wait for FOSS brain implants, it would still be hellish but a fun kind of hellish.
I want someone like Linus Torvalds to verbally abuse someone for not understanding basic computational neuroscience.
No implants until you own it, and can control what interacts with it.
I am shocked.
So was the patient
you know what they say; seizure the day…
Carpe killem
SHOCKED!
I mean, I’d like to be surprised that a technology driven by a techbro with the “move fast and break things” mentality has broken because of moving too quickly into human trials, but…
I guess we should just count ourselves lucky that the poor human
test subjectpatient wasn’t permanently harmed by Musk’s raging arrogance.Not that I wanted one or trusted Musk before, but after the cyber truck fiasco I couldn’t imagine lol
No, really??? /s
Edit: Honestly it’s not as bad as I expected.
Buckaroo Banzai was working on similar tech all the way back in 1984!
RAWHIDE:Dr. Banzai is using a laser to vaporize a pineal tumor without damaging the parthogenital plate. A subcutaneous microphone will allow the patient to transmit verbal instructions to his own brain.
STAR SURGEON: What, like “raise my left arm”?
RAWHIDE: Or “throw the harpoon,” . People are gonna come from all over. This boy’s an Eskimo.
Just ignore this clown and his bullshit. Stop reporting on him and his companies, it’ll drive him nuts.
I would have hoped that before putting this implant in the guy’s brain that they had a plan for what to do in this situation. Like coming up with a method to potentially reseat the retreated “threads” it without invasive surgery. Especially if this it’s a recurring issue.
I’m not sure how you could possibly build an implant that can just redeposit itself like that.
Are you a brain implant expert? You just need to put the screws on the outside of the skull so that you can tighten them up.
Right? I mean, it’s not brain sur… wait…
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Neuralink, the brain-computer interface startup run by controversial billionaire Elon Musk, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Ars.
The goal is for the threads to be placed near neurons of interest so that signals detected by the electrodes can be recorded and decoded into intended actions, such as moving a cursor on a computer screen.
On January 28, the company announced that it has surgically implanted its brain-computer interface into its first clinical trial participant, 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh, who developed quadriplegia after a 2016 diving accident.
It remains unclear why the threads moved from their placement, but one hypothesis that sources told the Journal is that there was air trapped inside Arbaugh’s skull after the surgery, a condition called pneumocephalus.
However, the company reported that the retraction of the threads lowered his bits-per-second (BPS) rate, which is used to measure how quickly and accurately a patient with an implant can control a computer cursor.
The Journal reported that the company has told the Food and Drug Administration—which regulates clinical trials and granted approval for Neuralink to test its device in humans—that it believes it has fixes for the problem.
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