"Initial results show promising neuron spike detection," Musk added. Reuters reported earlier this month that Neuralink was fined for violating U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) rules regarding the movement of hazardous materials.
      • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.worldEnglish
        501·
        10 months ago

        I don’t understand owning a computer that you don’t fully control but using prosthetics that can be remotely disabled? This is why we need true open source GPL brain implants.

        • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          23·
          10 months ago

          This isn’t a prosthetic that was remotely disabled, this is failing hardware that doesn’t have support from the original company which is in the process of going bankrupt.

          I get where you’re coming from, and agree. Prosthesis and health devices should absolutely not be remotely controllable by a company. But you can’t really help a company shutting down.

          And I highly doubt there are any open source implants which help sure blindness that are ready for prime time.

          • learningduck@programming.devEnglish
            9·
            10 months ago

            But still, if the technology is open, then someone may design some compatible replacement hardware. Imagine some makers community rig a replacement for the blind without carrying about profitability.

            • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              5·
              10 months ago

              That’s one aspect, absolutely.

              The other side of that coin though, is if you really want random people tinkering with things directly attached to your body, without having a proper way to test beforehand?

              These types of devices need to go through testing before they reach human trials for a reason. While I’m happy to trust security of data and even control of my while home to FOSS communities, I honestly don’t know that I’d trust anonymous individuals online with no skin in the game with my literal body.

              • learningduck@programming.devEnglish
                3·
                10 months ago

                Yeah, that’s a legitimate concern, but letting this technology die along with a dying company is a waste. Imagine it getting brought by some patent trolls who wouldn’t do anything with it.

        • where_am_i@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          610·
          10 months ago

          I’m daily driving Linux. And, frankly, for my eye implant, I’ll probably buy from apple.

          I mean, no, I will buy something else, jailbreak foss it, will have to patch it while being blind from an update, and proudly tell everyone no friggin government will be able to backdoor my eye. But oh boy I’ll wish I bought one from apple, cuz those guys never go blind from updates.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      292·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, like this is technology I’ve wanted since I was a kid, the stuff I wish people were talking about when they say VR, instead of screens you wear on your head and motion-detection controllers. Video games are a lot better when they are dynamic and current VR tech can’t really do that yet.

      But that said, I’ll die never experiencing that before trusting anything Elon Musk is involved with.

    • Willie@kbin.social
      211·
      10 months ago

      What happens if your brain implant is like a phone, and stops getting updates after 2 or so years? That’d suck really bad.

  • AnonTwo@kbin.social
    66·
    10 months ago

    Didn’t the animal tests lead to pretty bad deaths? And wasn’t that less than a year ago? I can’t imagine this going well.

    Plus there was the blind-tech that was revealed not too long ago where now that they’re bankrupt the group is slowly going blind and worse. I feel like none of this is going to end well.

  • electric_nan@lemmy.mlEnglish
    571·
    10 months ago

    Can’t wait to have a stroke because someone put a cryptomining virus on my brainchip.

    • DingoBilly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      10 months ago

      Oops, looks like we had a security flaw and some malware has removed all your memories!

      Sorry about that, we’ve given you free subscription to our Neuralink AI software for 1 year to make up for it.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    332·
    10 months ago

    at least the billionaire sub moron believed in his product enough to go down with it.

    does this coward have the guts to use his own crap?

    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      10 months ago

      If he hasn’t gotten an implant when it moves beyond solving medical problems to being a consumer device that an everyday person would be able to buy, that’d be really telling.

      But until then that’s not how it works. They need approval to do trials on very specific things, such as working with quadriplegics.

      We’re probably decades away from non trials for only medical purposes.

  • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    10 months ago

    I hope he himself has it in him. Based on his progressing psychosis it is in his head for some time now.

  • peopleproblems@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    10 months ago

    Watch. It will end up being Alec Baldwin.

    Elon Musk saw the shitter episode of South Park, and was inspired by it. He hatched a plan. He needed a company working on brain computer interface technology, and Twitter to get renamed shitter. Nuerolink was easy to find, but Shitter was troublesome. He bought twitter, then in what only could be called by Elon Musk some sort of brilliance, thought he could tank the sites reputation so hard and give it a stupid brand that people would roll their eyes and switch to calling it “shitter.”

    Once that had taken place, he would be able to develop the technology, and finally release a platform that gave anyone the ability to publicly broadcast all their thoughts without a filter. And he would be loved for it