First Human to Receive Neuralink Implant Says It Lets Him Play Civilization VI (www.pcmag.com)
from floofloof@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world on 21 Mar 2024 23:28
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OpenStars@startrek.website on 21 Mar 2024 23:42 next collapse

(1) ngl that is amazing, a heart-warming story

(2) still fuck Elon Musk

Sanctus@lemmy.world on 22 Mar 2024 01:58 collapse

Don’t forget it wasn’t made by The Musk. There are probably countless people involved in technology like that. Emerald boi probably just foot the bill and flapped his jowls.

DogPeePoo@lemm.ee on 22 Mar 2024 02:43 next collapse

*flapped his tits

Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 22 Mar 2024 18:02 collapse

Well, he does seem to be incapable of calming them.

Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee on 22 Mar 2024 05:19 collapse

The mental gymnastics needed to turn even every positive news article against Musk is quite amusing. When it’s bad Elon did it personally and when it’s good he had nothing to do with it.

SeabassDan@lemmy.world on 22 Mar 2024 05:40 next collapse

I think you honestly have to compare the things he takes credit for with the things he openly does singlehandedly. It’s not just positive vs negative and assigning responsibility blindly.

Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee on 22 Mar 2024 05:49 collapse

Well I mean if it wasn’t for Steve Jobs we probably wouldn’t have had iPods, iPhones, Macs etc. but besides some individual design choices it’s not like it was he personally who made them. I still think it’s still reasonable for him to have much of the credit. You can change half of the engineers and designers and still end up with the same product but if you change Steve then you wont. I think this pretty much applies to the stuff Elon is doing aswell. It’s not him building and placing the implants but without him there wouldn’t be implants to begin with.

prole@sh.itjust.works on 22 Mar 2024 13:30 next collapse

Tesla existed for years before Musk bought himself into the CEO position.

Sanctus@lemmy.world on 22 Mar 2024 17:45 collapse

No, you can’t change out engineers and designers and get the same shit. Thats the actual talent. That is whwre the fathomless expanse of knowledge meets applicable experience. The truth is, you could change out Steve Jobs with any other charismatic face and the product would be the same because the engineers behind it are still sound. Fucking backwards ass logic is this? Being a salesmen is the least of all the challenges you face when creating new technology.

prole@sh.itjust.works on 22 Mar 2024 13:29 next collapse

When it’s bad Elon did it personally and when it’s good he had nothing to do with it.

No… If it’s actual tech, Elon had nothing to do with it because he’s a fucking idiot that’s never actually created anything of value. He’s not an engineer, he’s a guy with a shit load of money that made a couple smart investments early on.

He had no role in the development of PayPal.

He didn’t even “start” Tesla, he bought enough shares to get control and became CEO years after the company was created by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.

Dude does nothing but take credit for the work of actual engineers.

Sanctus@lemmy.world on 22 Mar 2024 17:41 collapse

I will turn every right winger positive into a negative as long as they keep stripping our rights. Fuck them. They could literally save my life and I’d punch them in the face with the scale of harm they cause with their hateful policies. Musky boi is no different. He wants to be the Emperor and his clothes are just absolutely the finest in the land can’t you see them?

db2@lemmy.world on 21 Mar 2024 23:48 next collapse

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Brokkr@lemmy.world on 22 Mar 2024 00:06 next collapse

Yeah, we’ll wait till Ghandi gets nukes… It’s not so fun then.

dhork@lemmy.world on 22 Mar 2024 00:28 next collapse

I think this counts as a Science Victory

NegentropicBoy@lemmy.world on 22 Mar 2024 01:09 next collapse

The implant works by reading the brain signals from the user and translating them into Bluetooth-based remote commands

“From there, it just became intuitive for me to start imagining the cursor moving. Basically, it was like using the Force on a cursor and I could get it to move wherever I wanted,”

Awesome.

femtech@midwest.social on 22 Mar 2024 01:53 next collapse

Reminds me of the emotive headset.

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today on 22 Mar 2024 18:28 collapse

B…bluetooth?

Oh no. Reverse that flow of data and “Hackable brains” are a thing. Cool. /s

Kolanaki@yiffit.net on 22 Mar 2024 02:00 next collapse

Pfft. I can already play Civ 6 and I didn’t need no brain implant. I’m not impressed. /s

scottmeme@sh.itjust.works on 22 Mar 2024 02:10 next collapse

If it’s not open source and open hardware I’m not putting that shit in my head lmfao

wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 22 Mar 2024 03:18 next collapse

Yep, there’s already horror stories about other implants where the patients were left high and dry when the company that made them went under.

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today on 22 Mar 2024 18:30 collapse

“Sorry your pacemaker has the silliest little flaw but the patented blobbed firmware could only be updated with some vendor program on Windows XP that was reliant on XP-specific libraries but Service Pack 2 broke it after the company went under…”

Same stuff with car electronics. Maddening.

T156@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 2024 07:37 collapse

Or it just shuts off because it can’t connect to the company servers any more.

elshandra@lemmy.world on 22 Mar 2024 06:08 next collapse

It’s only a hop step from there to something less invasive thankfully.

Intravascular neural interfaces are already reducing the invasiveness, but hopefully that is just a short step.

Lmaydev@programming.dev on 23 Mar 2024 07:05 collapse

I doubt I’d care if I was paraplegic. Very easy to say from a point of privilege.

T156@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 2024 07:30 next collapse

You might. You don’t want to get into a situation where Neuralink says that they’re not doing BCI like the ones installed in your head any more, and have it shut down spontaneously when the company turns off support.

It’s happened before to people with artificial eyes, and they’re both left blind because the hardware doesn’t work any more, and they can’t afford to have it removed (if that’s even safely doable).

witx@lemmy.sdf.org on 23 Mar 2024 08:00 collapse

It’s exactly the people that can have a choice who should be helping those who can’t, don’t you agree?

The fight for open software and hardware wouldn’t be made by going around paraplegic people and bothering them about it, but by discussing it with the vendors and legislators.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world on 22 Mar 2024 17:17 next collapse

Yyyeah noninvasive bcis have been able to move mice for well over a decade. Nice to see they cleared this hurdle and I’m glad the dude didn’t die, but this isn’t how you do medicine.

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today on 22 Mar 2024 18:26 collapse

“Move fast and break things monkeys before getting FDA cleared to risk humans.”

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world on 22 Mar 2024 17:22 collapse

If I had that ability I would probably die in my chair muttering “Just one more turn…”