If Neuralink can prove its device is safe in humans, it would still potentially take more than a decade for the start-up to secure commercial use approval

If Neuralink can prove its device is safe in humans, it would still potentially take more than a decade for the start-up to secure commercial use approval

    • Yewb@kbin.social
      31·
      1 year ago

      Dude cant even get the software on teslas to work right and we are going to trust him with brain implants? Lol

        • hoilst@kbin.social
          20·
          1 year ago

          They were going to ask for volunteers from Musk’s legions of loyal fans, but then they realised the subjects needed to have brains.

          • Maeve@kbin.social
            3·
            1 year ago

            Just finished my first cuppa and had a nice and literal lol. Thanks for starting my day right!

          • hoilst@kbin.social
            18·
            1 year ago

            I just love the assumption that we have to have brain implants (why? Because L. Ron Musk said so?)

            • GreatBigJerk@kbin.social
              11·
              1 year ago

              I think it’s the sci-fi fantasy of it. Like being able to download knowledge like the matrix.

              In reality the real use of these is to help people with brain injuries or disabilities.

              Elno wants to grift people on the former. Literally everything he does is selling people the knock off wish version of something from a sci-fi movie/book/game.

              • Magzter@kbin.social
                3·
                1 year ago

                Musk aside, BCI will be a significant part of human lives in the distant future, they will initially aid existing tech but as the technology advances I can forsee a black mirror-esque future with our brains having a digital component.

    • Astigma@feddit.uk
      21·
      1 year ago

      Yeah same here, I’m much more curious about Valve’s foray into BCIs. GabeN mentioned in an interview a few years ago that they’re closer than we think and I want to know what he’s cooking up.

  • FiskFisk33@kbin.social
    32·
    1 year ago

    I’mma call it right here, shot will go south, quickly, people will end up in prison, and Musk will somehow not be one of them.

    i give it max a year or two after the first implant before we read about trials starting in the headlines.

  • LostCause@kbin.social
    24·
    1 year ago

    Exactly what we need, billionaires tinkering with brain chips. I‘d rather die than have anything from Musk in my head, bad enough the knowledge of his existence is in there.

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
    13·
    1 year ago

    Where are all those people who were worried vaccines had chips in them? Now this guy is literally saying he’s going to chip you and nothing lol

      • skogens_ro@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        I don’t believe in the vaccine-chip nonsense, but I think there’s consistency there: it’s about informed consent. There’s a huge difference between being told by the government to take a vaccine that secretly has a chip in it, and Elon Musk offering chips for sale. If you choose to buy Musk’s chip, you’re doing so voluntarily and you know that you are getting a chip.

        Plus, how many of the tinfoil hats are cheering on Neuralink?

          • skogens_ro@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            Yeah there are numerous reasons why the conspiracy theory doesn’t hold.

            But that’s besides the point. Let’s say they thought the vaccine secretly contained benzos in order to make the population more docile or whatever. That doesn’t mean they need to object to any use of the drug in order to be consistent. The problem would be that the government is secretly injecting the population for nefarious reasons, which would be a valid concern if there were any truth to it.

  • HubertManne@kbin.social
    12·
    1 year ago

    This is all you need to know from the article:

    “On at least four occasions since 2019, Musk predicted that Neuralink would soon start human trials.”

  • exohuman@kbin.social
    12·
    1 year ago

    I’m neurodivergent and I would love a chip to help with that, but this company decided it’s leader is Musk and I don’t trust him. He used to be a hero in my eyes until the Twitter fiasco. Then I saw him for what he was.

    • RyanHakurei@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      So you liked him when he agreed with your politics, and now that he took away your safe space to shit on certain demographics scot-free suddenly he’s bad.

      • exohuman@kbin.social
        18·
        1 year ago

        I liked him when he wasn’t hateful towards trans people. I liked him when he wasn’t pushing an agenda of intolerance. Btw… what demographic is it that I supposedly shit on?

          • exohuman@kbin.social
            23·
            1 year ago

            You should touch grass. That’s a lot of assumptions for someone you don’t know at all. I suggest you chill out and stop reading into people based on culture war bullshit. Also, what is a TOS pass?

            • RyanHakurei@kbin.social
              11·
              1 year ago

              Lol from the person bringing up culture war talking points like MUH TWANNSSSS. Also, a TOS-pass is used to describe when the TOS does not apply to you. You’re basically free to violate TOS without repercussions which is something I’d presume a Reddit refugee would be familiar with. Something I bet even you utilized on Reddit.

          • Killakomodo@kbin.social
            5·
            1 year ago

            Shut the fuck up, you are insane and no one care about your shit ass opinions. There, hope you learned something, tho that seems near impossible for you.

                • RyanHakurei@kbin.social
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  You can take the Redditor off of Reddit, but you can’t take the Reddit out of the Redditor. How long until you AHS shitheads start spamming CSEM to instances you don’t like to get their hosting provider to take them down?

  • Clairvoidance@kbin.social
    10·
    1 year ago

    given Tesla’s trackrecord, paraplegics beware!
    obviously other ways get less coverage because it’s not as excitingly scifi as propping metal in your brain, but I think I would rather a CTRL-Labs armwrist even if it is owned by Facebook
    if you’re excited about this kind of stuff I would recommend reading more about OpenBCI, or y’know, anything that already has results within moving things with a thought.
    I would sooner look to VR (as soon as we get commercial batteries that can keep up) to be the replacement ‘second brain’ for a computer if we’re talking about the idea he once talked about accessing the internet from anywhere

    If Neuralink can prove its device is safe in humans, it would still take several years, potentially more than a decade, for the start-up to secure commercial use clearance, experts earlier told Reuters. The company is also competing with other neurotech companies which have already implanted their devices in people.

    like idk journalists should stop talking about Neuralink, all it does is risk stocks related to Musk go up, though this one is soberingly skeptical.

  • Untitled9999@kbin.social
    8·
    1 year ago

    This is completely dystopian.

    As others have said, Elon should test this on himself before he tests it on others, if he’s really so confident in it.

    It is inevitable that this will have negative health effects, and when that happens, Elon will just wipe his hands and say “not my problem”.