Livestream seems to be very far behind schedule, but it looks like the press embargo is up and there are some articles: The Verge: Elon Musk unveils Neuralink’s plans for brain-reading ‘threads’...
Livestream seems to be very far behind schedule, but it looks like the press embargo is up and there are some articles:
They addressed disconnecting the device at this point in the presentation. The implant is powered through induction by an external device worn behind the ear, which contains the only battery and...
There are other corner cases too, like, what happens when I'm asleep? Worse, how can I rest assured that there won't be some Orwellian always-on backdoor embedded within the technology?
They addressed disconnecting the device at this point in the presentation. The implant is powered through induction by an external device worn behind the ear, which contains the only battery and the bluetooth connector. Take that off and the implant doesn't have any power or ability to connect.
I think you are missing some things about the field of Brain Computer Interface. Which is fine, because we're talking about making some of the science-fiction stuff real, and Elon Musk tends to...
I think you are missing some things about the field of Brain Computer Interface. Which is fine, because we're talking about making some of the science-fiction stuff real, and Elon Musk tends to have an distortion reality field around him akin to that of Steve Job.
it's testing something for the very first time that's never been outside of a lab.
At this point we've been putting things in (deep brain stimulation), on (electrocorticography) and around (electroencephalography) the brain for decades (first FDA approval for DBS was in 1999, and ECoG and EEG were already around for quite some time when Armstrong set foot on the moon).
There's still much to learn, put playing with electrodes in/on/around the brain is something that we're quite familiar. What the Neuralink team proposed is less like a crazy guy saying he has a flying machine and more like a team asking if someone ever tried to put an engine onto a glider (to be fair, that's what's the engineer and medical doctor said; the chef scientist was already talking about heavyweight cargo, fighter jets, and the Hubble Space Telescope).
We do the exact same thing with drugs.
Every piece of engineering we put into our body or is interacting with our body are classified as "medical device" by the FDA, and have a similar safety/reliability/efficacy requirement. For sure you will find some controversy, but people still have to fill a ton of paperwork before creating a new pacemaker or cochlear implant.
We test them on non-human animals before we move on to human trials.
We already have some monkey controlling robots with a similar (but cruder) setup (electrodes in the motor cortex). One could argue that Neuralink is essentially a version two of this device.
I don't think invasive nodes are a starter for most people, but I guess for people who are in need of the best available intergration to technology, it will have to do.
I don't think invasive nodes are a starter for most people, but I guess for people who are in need of the best available intergration to technology, it will have to do.
Livestream seems to be very far behind schedule, but it looks like the press embargo is up and there are some articles:
They addressed disconnecting the device at this point in the presentation. The implant is powered through induction by an external device worn behind the ear, which contains the only battery and the bluetooth connector. Take that off and the implant doesn't have any power or ability to connect.
I think you are missing some things about the field of Brain Computer Interface. Which is fine, because we're talking about making some of the science-fiction stuff real, and Elon Musk tends to have an distortion reality field around him akin to that of Steve Job.
At this point we've been putting things in (deep brain stimulation), on (electrocorticography) and around (electroencephalography) the brain for decades (first FDA approval for DBS was in 1999, and ECoG and EEG were already around for quite some time when Armstrong set foot on the moon).
There's still much to learn, put playing with electrodes in/on/around the brain is something that we're quite familiar. What the Neuralink team proposed is less like a crazy guy saying he has a flying machine and more like a team asking if someone ever tried to put an engine onto a glider (to be fair, that's what's the engineer and medical doctor said; the chef scientist was already talking about heavyweight cargo, fighter jets, and the Hubble Space Telescope).
Every piece of engineering we put into our body or is interacting with our body are classified as "medical device" by the FDA, and have a similar safety/reliability/efficacy requirement. For sure you will find some controversy, but people still have to fill a ton of paperwork before creating a new pacemaker or cochlear implant.
We already have some monkey controlling robots with a similar (but cruder) setup (electrodes in the motor cortex). One could argue that Neuralink is essentially a version two of this device.
Probably a bit behind schedule because Starship exploded.
I don't think invasive nodes are a starter for most people, but I guess for people who are in need of the best available intergration to technology, it will have to do.