Neuralink implants brain chip in first human, Musk says (finance.yahoo.com)
from flumph@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 29 Jan 2024 23:58
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pixel_witch@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 00:05 next collapse

Was there not some issues with the animal trials last year or am I misremembering?

themeatbridge@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 00:44 next collapse

Nah, your implant should have deleted any record of that happening.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works on 30 Jan 2024 03:56 collapse

Oh, and don’t worry about calling your lawyer about medical malpractice or anything; after all, we’ve disabled your speech center.

dirthawker0@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 06:40 next collapse

As in they all had to be euthanized in a very short amount of time, or something like that?

originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com on 30 Jan 2024 00:06 next collapse

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.world on 30 Jan 2024 03:24 collapse

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.

smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de on 30 Jan 2024 00:11 next collapse

Install this proprietary app from Google Play or App Store on your Google Android or Apple iPhone certified device to access your stored memories.

ivanafterall@kbin.social on 30 Jan 2024 00:49 next collapse

They can have my memories for like a $.99 app store credit.

DingoBilly@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 04:00 collapse

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.

kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 00:34 next collapse

I don’t care who makes it I’m not putting absolutely proprietary software in my brain

Willie@kbin.social on 30 Jan 2024 00:39 next collapse

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

kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 00:41 collapse

Then I’m jailbreaking my brain implant and installing Linux on it

Deceptichum@kbin.social on 30 Jan 2024 00:52 next collapse

The bootloaders gonna be locked.

kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 00:52 collapse

It can only stay locked for so long

Deceptichum@kbin.social on 30 Jan 2024 00:56 next collapse

You gonna open up your brain to flash the ROM?

Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 03:28 collapse

Probably get a unit w/o having it implanted, modify it, then get it installed unofficially. (Don’t ask who or where, because that won’t be shared publicly, as it will almost certainly be illegal).

nokturne213@sopuli.xyz on 30 Jan 2024 00:57 collapse

Careful not to brick your brain implant.

neuropean@kbin.social on 30 Jan 2024 01:51 collapse

Can it run Doom?

grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 02:25 collapse

That’s all it runs.

AbidanYre@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 00:40 next collapse

What’s the worst that could happen?

Oh

kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 00:44 collapse

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.

where_am_i@sh.itjust.works on 30 Jan 2024 04:16 next collapse

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.

teft@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 04:30 collapse

Or when you do go blind the ceo will just say you are holding your iEye in the wrong spot.

Zombifrog@lemm.ee on 30 Jan 2024 05:23 next collapse

Aye aye captain

HotDogFingies@kbin.social on 30 Jan 2024 05:59 next collapse
Sim@lemmy.nz on 30 Jan 2024 06:28 collapse

iBall

KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Jan 2024 06:57 collapse

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.dev on 30 Jan 2024 09:45 collapse

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.com on 30 Jan 2024 09:49 collapse

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.dev on 30 Jan 2024 11:14 collapse

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.

Cheems@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 00:52 next collapse

What if it’s FOSS

kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 00:53 collapse

Then it wouldn’t be absolutely proprietary

Cheems@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 01:04 collapse

Holy smokes it wouldn’t be??

kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 03:28 collapse

I know shocking

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 01:05 collapse

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.

Maddie@sh.itjust.works on 30 Jan 2024 00:42 next collapse

Why in the actual hell are we allowing Elon Musk of all people to put chips in people’s brains?

Deceptichum@kbin.social on 30 Jan 2024 00:49 next collapse

C.R.E.A.M.

einlander@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 01:00 collapse

Dolla Dolla bill y’all

psmgx@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 03:42 collapse

I’ma tell you, like Wu told me

goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org on 30 Jan 2024 01:42 next collapse

People are fucking morons

crazyminner@lemmy.ml on 30 Jan 2024 05:11 collapse

There is no we. This country is run by capitalist sociopaths.

AnonTwo@kbin.social on 30 Jan 2024 01:03 next collapse

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.

ech@lemm.ee on 30 Jan 2024 01:38 collapse

Lots of them, yes.

ech@lemm.ee on 30 Jan 2024 01:38 next collapse

That poor bastard.

psmgx@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 03:41 collapse

Poor is probably what led to it

KnightontheSun@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 03:54 next collapse

In Elon’s eyes he’s still testing on animals.

taxon@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 04:06 collapse

…Which he is.

RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works on 30 Jan 2024 06:06 collapse

(insert Cave Johnson quote here)

BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com on 30 Jan 2024 02:19 next collapse

This is one of the worst ideas in capitalism…

emptyother@programming.dev on 30 Jan 2024 02:42 next collapse

Oh you’re wearing one of those neuralinks. Dont try any of that mind control on me.

😁 I’m so looking forward to use this quote in real life.

werefreeatlast@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 03:11 next collapse

I want this but with the capability of uploading fake memories. Like in the Arnold Chachanege where he gets fake memories. But without all the violence. I just wanna feel like a million bucks every day. Maybe I’ll remember how I made sweet sweet love the night before or something awesome like that.

littlebluespark@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 03:14 next collapse

How’d you like the woman in the red dress?

werefreeatlast@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 03:17 collapse

What woman in the red dress…all I see is blondes and brunettes…

billiam0202@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 05:32 collapse

Look again.

werefreeatlast@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 05:40 collapse

Wait, I’m gonna learn kung fu? Can I also watch endless porn? I rather do that actually.

NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 03:17 collapse

How far is it from giving vision to blind people to making memories?

At the very least being able to send a video and have the brain understand it is at least a first step?

werefreeatlast@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 03:28 collapse

We’ll get there one day. I’ll recruit them some “volunteers” if they need!

…oh Mr Santos, it’s a really cool implant, you should really try it.

fay_kreal@kbin.social on 30 Jan 2024 03:21 next collapse

Mark of the least

blazeknave@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 05:19 collapse

Oh you

peopleproblems@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 03:32 next collapse

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

electric_nan@lemmy.ml on 30 Jan 2024 04:07 next collapse

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

Hadriscus@lemm.ee on 30 Jan 2024 16:21 collapse

playing Cyberpunk these days and there’s a lot of that

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 30 Jan 2024 04:16 next collapse

Oh, that’s why he’s been behaving this way.

hperrin@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 05:10 next collapse

God speed, guinea pig.

BigTrout75@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 06:30 next collapse

Pump the stocks with buzzwords!

Snapz@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 08:55 next collapse

Well if musk said it…

I don’t believe it.

kokesh@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 14:44 next collapse

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

LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Jan 2024 20:33 next collapse

Why does clicking on this link bring up Google Play lol wtf

1984@lemmy.today on 30 Jan 2024 21:11 collapse

Musk wants to turn the planet into the same mindless drone he is himself.