Neuralink Barrels Into Human Tests Despite Fraud Claims (spectrum.ieee.org)
from ylai@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.ml on 06 Dec 2023 21:56
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shiveyarbles@beehaw.org on 06 Dec 2023 22:54 next collapse

This reminds me of Trump’s contribution to covid " uh can’t you just flash light on it, or drink chlorine?". Just truly brilliant people having world changing ideas. "We’ll surgically implant chips into brains… ignore the dead chimps

joshuanozzi@lemmy.ml on 06 Dec 2023 22:56 next collapse

Early, undocumented, mass implantation in human subjects WOULD explain some of the fanboyism of late…

floofloof@lemmy.ca on 06 Dec 2023 23:05 next collapse

It would explain some of Elon Musk’s weird twitchy body language too. But there are other possible explanations.

RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml on 07 Dec 2023 01:09 collapse

There is no way that dude isn’t on drugs 24/7.

Anticorp@lemmy.world on 07 Dec 2023 23:40 next collapse

I would probably be on drugs 24/7 too if I had unlimited resources and no way to go broke from my actions.

ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one on 08 Dec 2023 01:13 collapse

Heroin has entered the chat

Did someone say they want drugs 24/7? I can help with that.

Anticorp@lemmy.world on 08 Dec 2023 01:48 collapse

Go home heroin, nobody wants you here!

ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one on 08 Dec 2023 02:57 collapse

Fine, I will go somewhere where I am appreciated.

Heroin has left the chat

Anticorp@lemmy.world on 08 Dec 2023 03:04 collapse

*Anticorp slaps Heroin with a large trout.

NattyNatty2x4@beehaw.org on 09 Dec 2023 05:55 collapse

We got any guesses what his go-to cocktail is?

RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world on 07 Dec 2023 20:01 collapse

Neurolink = brain stapling?

capital@lemmy.world on 06 Dec 2023 23:00 next collapse

Neuralink announced in September that it was recruiting volunteers for its human study. Thousands of people have reportedly signed up to receive the brain implant.

Welp…

floofloof@lemmy.ca on 06 Dec 2023 23:04 next collapse

Why do they want it? What does it actually do?

glimse@lemmy.world on 06 Dec 2023 23:13 next collapse

Neuralink’s device has a chip that processes and transmits neural signals that could be transmitted to devices like a computer or a phone.

The company hopes that a person would potentially be able to control a mouse, keyboard or other computer functions like text messaging with their thoughts.

“First @Neuralink product will enable someone with paralysis to use a smartphone with their mind faster than someone using thumbs,” Musk said in April 2021

reuters.com/…/what-does-elon-musks-brain-chip-com…

Sanctus@lemmy.world on 06 Dec 2023 23:21 next collapse

So are these thousands of people disabled? Because that would be the silver lining. I dont think the trials will go well, but I mean thats how desperate these people are. And at least the tech is being worked in some form. But the siccest shit comes out of the worst assholes.

glimse@lemmy.world on 06 Dec 2023 23:28 next collapse

I’d imagine most of the people signing up haven’t actually looked into it and are envisioning Matrix shit or something. Like the thousands of people who signed up for Mars One

averagedrunk@lemmy.ml on 07 Dec 2023 03:35 next collapse
Lodespawn@aussie.zone on 07 Dec 2023 06:47 collapse

Matrix shit? Like being forced to be a drone in a monotonous VR world while their bodies are harvested for energy until they fail? Doesn’t really seem like an aspirational situation but I guess there must be a few Cyphers out there …

glimse@lemmy.world on 07 Dec 2023 13:19 next collapse

I meant like downloading kung fu knowledge to your brain

Anticorp@lemmy.world on 07 Dec 2023 23:43 next collapse

Idk… Seems pretty good if it means I can live in the 90’s again.

ohitsbreadley@discuss.tchncs.de on 08 Dec 2023 21:56 collapse

If they’re thinking at all… it’s likely less drone, more “leather trench coat, sleek sunglasses, uzis, katanas, and bullet time”

PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world on 07 Dec 2023 03:16 collapse

No. This kind of thing is being worked on by legitimate academic neuroscientists at places like Stanford. They abide by a code of medical and scientific ethics. That’s where this kind of thing is going to come from.

They’re not going to come from some guy who killed a $44B company by making the stupidest move possible at every decision branch.

RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml on 07 Dec 2023 01:11 next collapse

Neuralink’s device has a chip that processes and transmits neural signals that could be transmitted to devices like a computer or a phone.

Haven’t we already been able to do that with non-invasive EKG sensors strapped to the temples before?

aniki@lemm.ee on 07 Dec 2023 02:37 next collapse

There’s consumer level transcranial magnetic stimulation kits you can get.

tryptaminev@feddit.de on 07 Dec 2023 10:37 collapse

yeah, but do you want to have a small ekg device around your head, when daddy elon could be linked up directly to your brain?

Anticorp@lemmy.world on 07 Dec 2023 23:42 collapse

It probably could do those things, but instead it’ll harvest your thoughts to send advertising keywords to Twitter, and play unskippable ads directly inside of your brain.

glimse@lemmy.world on 08 Dec 2023 00:32 collapse

I’ve always wanted to give corporations access to my thoughts

Anticorp@lemmy.world on 08 Dec 2023 00:41 collapse

Don’t forget to pay your monthly subscription, or you’ll wake up and discover they’ve turned off your visual cortex rendering you blind until you bring your payment account up to date, plus pay a $47 late fee.

mriguy@lemmy.world on 07 Dec 2023 00:55 collapse

Kills you painfully with a brain infection, I think. I don’t really see the appeal.

CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml on 06 Dec 2023 23:49 next collapse

Darwinism in action I guess…

PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world on 07 Dec 2023 03:12 collapse

Oh, they’re going to get so sued if they actually do this. I’m picturing the window-shatter demo of the cybertruck, but with brains.

ArcaneGadget@lemmy.world on 07 Dec 2023 11:17 collapse

I’m picturing the chip overload from Kingsman.

ExLisper@linux.community on 06 Dec 2023 23:03 next collapse

Can I have two of those?

ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world on 07 Dec 2023 02:32 next collapse

Yikes, that would make you a scalper in more ways than one.

shiveyarbles@beehaw.org on 07 Dec 2023 18:46 collapse

Yes you can have a second installed in your butt as backup

spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works on 06 Dec 2023 23:53 next collapse

I wonder how many of those bag lickers that volunteered refused to get the Covid vaccine.

bi_tux@lemmy.world on 08 Dec 2023 21:28 collapse

But the covid vaccine implanted microchips into people… oh…

cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 07 Dec 2023 01:02 next collapse

pls put a monkey killing chip in my brain daddy elon

HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works on 07 Dec 2023 02:00 next collapse

No sane, nondisabled person would allow Elon to put anything in their brain

Avg@lemm.ee on 07 Dec 2023 02:41 collapse

If they are not disabled before, they will soon.

pastermil@sh.itjust.works on 07 Dec 2023 12:58 collapse

Those NFT bros would probably jump at the first chance.

It would be good riddance.

HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works on 08 Dec 2023 20:37 collapse

They fall under disabled

[deleted] on 07 Dec 2023 02:08 next collapse

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mdd@lemm.ee on 07 Dec 2023 02:17 next collapse

If the IEEE (electrical engineering society) is saying something it must be really bad. They rarely if ever get involved in things like this.

kGdMKhy8Wa5s@programming.dev on 07 Dec 2023 02:42 next collapse

Any nuanced opinions about Elon Musk here? 👀

dom@lemmy.ca on 07 Dec 2023 02:58 next collapse

Feel free to provide one. He seems to me to be a lunatic

kGdMKhy8Wa5s@programming.dev on 07 Dec 2023 08:06 collapse

When 7 billion people know when you are, the chances of pleasing everyone is close to absolute zero. He has character flaws. So do I. So do you. He also runs very important future forward companies. He helped curate collections of the best talent in the world to create great tech.

ReadyUser31@lemmy.world on 07 Dec 2023 08:19 next collapse

He is very good at the following things:

  • being born rich
  • investing in a slam dunk future technology everyone on the planet knows we will need, eg money on the internet, electric cars, space ships
  • taking risks in combining the above

That is about as far as his skillset runs. As we’ve seen from twitter, when he doesn’t have an entire layer of his organisation set up to run interference in him, he quickly runs companies into the ground. He has had zero original ideas.

He’s also a dangerous alt-right racist nutjob.

MolochAlter@lemmy.world on 07 Dec 2023 08:21 next collapse

So, this is what passes for nuance these days?

ulkesh@beehaw.org on 09 Dec 2023 00:14 next collapse

Yes except his character flaws make him a terrible fucking human. But you can keep trying to justify his behavior and beliefs just because you happen to like SpaceX or Tesla or whatever. Won’t fly with many of us.

NattyNatty2x4@beehaw.org on 09 Dec 2023 05:58 collapse

That you think musk’s character flaws are comparable to the average person’s says more about you than it does him

The man’s good at generating hype for his companies, I’ll give you that. His blatant disregard for his employees’ wellbeing, retweeting of antisemitic lies, manchild personality, and implicit support of far right ideology in general goes far beyond the average person’s character flaws, however

flying_sheep@lemmy.ml on 07 Dec 2023 08:25 next collapse

Yes. He’s smart enough to mostly back the right R&D horses, and good at generating hype. That way, he almost manages to offset the damage he does when his ego gets in the way or he thinks he’s qualified to make engineering decisions or to know which corners to cut.

HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works on 08 Dec 2023 01:53 collapse

Have you signed up?

magnetosphere@kbin.social on 07 Dec 2023 03:55 next collapse

If only there was a government agency with both the will and the authority to do something. Oh well.

Fades@lemmy.world on 07 Dec 2023 05:09 next collapse

They’ll die or beg to die just like all of those monkeys

wired.com/…/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-death…

How about you step up and be patient zero Mr phony stark wannabe

Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml on 08 Dec 2023 02:04 next collapse

You can’t install adblocker on neuralink, but thankfully for you, nazi propaganda comes free of charge.

ylai@lemmy.ml on 08 Dec 2023 02:24 collapse
atkion@sh.itjust.works on 08 Dec 2023 20:58 next collapse

Yooo, real life cyberpsychosis just dropped

[deleted] on 08 Dec 2023 21:08 next collapse

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IzzyScissor@lemmy.world on 08 Dec 2023 21:19 next collapse

The only way this should be allowed to move forward is if the board of directors all have the procedure done first.

fsxylo@sh.itjust.works on 08 Dec 2023 22:19 collapse

You ready to get a montage reel of people pulling their brains out while screaming, straight from a scifi horror movie?