Brain chips to be tested on humans this year, Elon Musk says
Brain chips to be tested on humans this year, Elon Musk says
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 he wants to get in front of the line then he's welcome to.
Do you want a super villain? Because that's how we get super villains.
It's way, way more likely to kill him.
I'm willing to take that risk.
Or vegetables.
Super easy to just, forget to install the firmware…
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.
When I look at what he's done to Twitter, I definitely think 'yeah I want this dude's chip in my head!'
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.
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."
How many times has he missed the mark on Tesla full self driving?
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
Consistency is not a hallmark of conservatism; being a numpty is.
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?
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.
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.
The future we don't want
What, you're not looking forward to get a corp chip implanted into your brain by the world's most infamous shitposter?
totally, dang....
Full self driving just around the corner.
I've been hearing that one for thirty years.
I'd rather live in a cave for the rest of my life than let CrazyElon brain chip me.
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.
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".
Let him test them on himself, maybe it can give him those extra braincells he's missing.
Brain chips? What was wrong with potatoes?
Good, he can test it on his adoring fans. Lord knows they need lobotomies.
And after they've bitten off all their fingers like those chimps I won't have to read any dick-suck sycophantic comments online any more.
I want a brain chip in theory.
I don't want any current human to have anything to do with it. The average human's comprehension of life, consciousness, what it is to be human etc are so far behind ideal, I wouldn't trust anyone currently alive to start testing a direct brain-computer interface.
In several hundred years when we have Trek style space communism, sure!
Just imagine the possibility of space capitalism. War, war everywhere :D
The UN voted years ago that astroid mining is allowed.
Inyalowda be like dat, sasa ke
The Ferengi's 34th rule of acquisition is: War is good for business. They themselves never waged war though, curiously.
So… Star Trek…
The only thing the Federation really did was convince people to work for free. They still had wars- lots of them, in fact- still had a military (one which trained kids in the field thought it was a good idea to have kids on battleships “exploration” ships)
Just like complete FSD is only a year away... And how about that Cybertruck
Given a descendant of this technology has the potential for seizure moderation, which is something my sister basically will need as the medication she uses will inevitably require doses that would destroy her liver or leave her all but vegetative. It's super interesting from a technical aspect and hyper-relevant.
However, given Musk's antics especially as of late? I wouldn't trust him to not accidentally intentionally kill people, or use it as a way to have an unremovable keylogger with the end goal of 'Oh those are some nice eyes you've got there,' or 'lovely able to live without going into convulsions isn't it? It'd be a shame if that changed.'
If someone offends him on Twitter and if they got a brain chip, it's the end of 'em.
I wouldn't trust Musk if he told me that water makes things wet.
He's a snake oil salesman.
Honestly I won't get one but I'm fine for Elon to break into it. I kinda feel like that's the only thing he does well. Funnels money into concepts people believe are impossible. Fail until there's some small success and let other, more competent people learn from those failures. I think I'd rather have that than stay stagnant and/or have the Russian brain chip become the standard
Good point. Let’s see what comes of this. Like I have said, I would welcome a chip if it solves my brain’s issues (instead of side effect laden medication) and it’s likely that the chip I want would be from one of those folks that learn from failure.
The important thing is people can't just casually reprogram the damned thing.
having an ability to diagnose and correct without cracking your head open is fine, but it has to be a way that's 'you're giving positive affirmation that you're OK with it or a medical professional is physically having to plug a thing in or on or ... just so it can't be 'oh hey yo ustepped through these induction plates. we turned your anti-siezure chip off due to your non-compliance.'
He wants to use this technology to "cure autism," which sounds like it's coming from a position of self-loathing, projected onto everybody else. If he wants to stick chips into his brain, fine, but personally, I don't need a cure for the disease of being me.
I get huge Deus Ex vibes. During the game, one concept stuck with me in relation to this. There was this woman, that was a doctor, but she wouldn't get hired to work in the hospital, because she didn't have the right chip in her head. She couldn't afford it, so she was unemployed. Such a sad prospect, if this is what leads to that.
Also, S1E1 of Futurama!
This is a huge nope from me. This is a company that is spearheaded by a man with negative sense of morality and should not be involved in anything that is this morally grey.
My initial response was a recollection of the plot of The Kingsman.
Sticking implants in brains for fun is stupidity on a stick.
Implants are already used to control some forms of epilepsy, however these are on the vagus nerve and not in the brain. This sort of application makes sense.
Elon should be the first guinea pig, then, see if they can install a chip to make his brain work right
Good soldiers follow orders
Yeah the left doesn't have any room to talk, at all:
Many such regimes which were also oppressive of the poor, foreign, ethnic minorities, and neurodivergent. I am sure you will simp for and/or deny every single one of them, though, as you leftists always do.
The left will never be deserving of the benefits of the contract, they've killed more people in the 20th century than all forms of cancer, many major diseases, smoking (bundled into the cancer point somewhat), all forms of accidents, etc
What does this have to do with brain implants...
It's pretty funny to see someone in the wild who actually thinks because those were Communist countries, the persons in charge must have been 'Leftists'.
And damn those Leftists down in North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee for growing all that tobacco using slave labor and then lobbying the government for the right to sell their product even though they knew it killed people!
115 comments and -320 karma. Stay woke guy, you'll get em next time for sure.
Lol caring about fake internet points is peak Reddit. Oh, and wow 13 comments and -14 hurr hurr ur internet number is negative too.
Probably a troll account.
I'm still curious what this has to do with neuralink brain chips
This is gonna end up terrible, why the hell would you want chip in your brain?
In capitalism, there is no doubt this will be used to compel labor. Imagine if your boss or some authority could inflict severe pain that causes no physical damage until you comply? Hello neo-slavery!
In socialism, there is no doubt this will be used to compel labor. Imagine if your commissar or some authority could inflict severe pain that causes no physical damage until you comply? Hello neo-slavery!
Sounds dystopian, this sounds like an episode straight out of Black mirror why the hell would anybody want to support this?(or is there nobody aside from elon supporting it?)
Hope he's the first human guinea pig, if he trusts it so much
What a fucking echo chamber this place is. Rename the community to /c/FuckMusk and get it over with
Well the best way to not have us talk about Musk like he's a moron is for Musk to stop acting like a moron.
Ha! Him first.
As someone who likes the idea of transhumanism:
I'ma fuckin' pass, dog.
Dude cant even get the software on teslas to work right and we are going to trust him with brain implants? Lol
Look how it went for monkey test subjects. 😳
And what company would you currently trust to make brain implants?
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.
Whatever it is, it'll probably start with "wake up Mr. Freeman"
Yeah same.
Just hope Musk won't ruin people's perception for this or similar kind of tech.
@GeekFTW @kjr Companies already analyse our life with our activity online and know a ton about us.
What a great idea it would be to give them access to our every fucking thought