Neuralink - demo with a paralysed person.

[dowie]

This is pretty incredible, this guy is paralysed from the waist down (edit) - neck down and now he's able to control a cursor and play a game of chess using his mind:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1770563939413496146

That in itself is awesome, though the possible future applications seem even more awesome - bridges for damaged nerves for example, maybe, with the help of a future implant, this guy's nerves can be reconnected and he'll be able to move his arms and legs again too.

 

[dowie]

people act like elon is doing something ground breaking be cause it's elon, as always its just someone elses idea and product copied

Show an example of a similar implant then?

 

[dowie]

I already did with time stamp

DM even has an article about it but they go back even further

The other patients who received brain chips YEARS before Neuralink

Elon Musk announced early results from human trials of Neuralink this week, but it is not the first brain chip. Here are the stories of five other people who received brain-computer interfaces first.

www.dailymail.co.uk

That's like trying to poo-poo the launch of the iPhone with an example of a 90s palm pilot having a touch screen or dunking on Tesla by showing an electric milk float from the 80s or some earlier electric car. It's a superficial comparison that completely glosses over the innovation present.

That stuff required a lot more surgery for way fewer connections and needed to be anchored with external equipment on the skull; it is hardly comparable in terms of connections and bandwidth, and importantly that has implications beyond controlling a mouse on a screen:

An Integrated Brain-Machine Interface Platform With Thousands of Channels

Brain-machine interfaces hold promise for the restoration of sensory and motor function and the treatment of neurological disorders, but clinical brain-machine interfaces have not yet been widely adopted, in part, because modest channel counts have limited ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Although significant technological challenges must be addressed before a high-bandwidth device is suitable for clinical application, with such a device, it is plausible to imagine that a patient with spinal cord injury could dexterously control a digital mouse and keyboard. When combined with rapidly improving spinal stimulation techniques [42], in the future, this approach could conceivably restore motor function. High-bandwidth neural interfaces should enable a variety of novel therapeutic possibilities.

 

[dowie]

you realise what year they were done in?

Elon never invented anything as always but the brainless go along with it

I think you're just angry that he's involved in this tbh.

 

[dowie]

Isn't it mad that there may be a point where you could technically live forever, and there will be a generation that just miss that time. Imagine like 1 year after you did it comes out. Lol

Quite possibly people in adulthood today might be among the groups that miss out. Of course, there's also the issue that as that sort of life extension tech is rolled out there will be winners and losers within a given generation/cohort too.

 

[dowie]

your the one comparing the bandwidth of 20 year old tech...

it's like comparing a a cpu from 2006 and comparing it to one from now.....

You brought up and made the comparison, I'm simply pointing out that it's not a particularly good one.

We had electric vehicles in the past; milk floats in the 1980s etc. pre-Tesla we've had touch screen mobile phones in the 90s pre-iphone. It's rather ridiculous to be so dismissive and try and pretend that something isn't innovative just because you're making a superficial comparison to previous tech.

he should release a cpu and then his fans can tell us how he invented the microchip

But he didn't claim to be the first to have wired up someone's brain.