Don't get me wrong, this is a wonderful advancement that could help a lot of people, but at the same time, it feels like the backstory to a dystopian novel.
@Adriana Adnan Yeah, they say they can make the blind see. Being blind is better then that. I agree about the last part too. If i were dead i would not want to have this thing in me.
Couldn't this also potentially determine if a coma patient is conscious of their surroundings while comatose or that brain activity exists while they are comatose and have the possibility to recover? With the family's consent to install the device of course
@BlackLivesMatter I mean…we’re not talking about brain dead patients. There isn’t a plug to pull. You just feed them and bathe them and hope they wake up one day.
there are already devices that pick up brain activity (lot less invasive and easy to use/cheaper as well) and i think they are already being used for this purpose, its not what the neuralink was meant to do.
Well here's likely to be the major issue with this tech... The brain mapping isn't very likely to be the same for each person. Thus would likely have to be "discovered" and mapped for each individual. Beyond this the issue the tech could be used in some really dark ways, effectively turning someone into a slave without them realizing what they are really doing. After all, our perception is our reality. Control what people experience, then you can control their both their thought and actions.
@Ed John lol you say that I bet you he’s ready to start right now. I say within ten year maybe sooner but this is definitely happening In are life time
@mr loqqe Why are you bothered by my comment? My life is amazing and I love it, I’d also love to see the huge futuristic like advancements we will make in my life time. No need to even reply to my comment
To be able to see through this advice basically means that you can see everything you project through it. So you could literally watch movies in first person or be able to access the Internet inside your brain. Virtual Reality is getting an upgrade
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha yes £1.25p to activate the the part of your mind where you understand banter I love it. Elon turn my legs on I'm sorry I missed a payment. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So I probably have no idea what I'm talking about but I have a few open-ended questions based on what the second speaker mentioned about stimulating neurons with a controlled electric current to communicate an image to the part of the brain associated with sight. Couldn't you then, if you can find the right spots on the brain for the inputs, communicate/simulate any and every sensation? Could any sight, hearing, scent, taste, touch be felt if you just have the right electrical current lighting up the right neurons in the right way? And even further beyond that, could, you use these same electrical currents, which can carry information like images, and use them to send other types of information, like the entire contents of books or test answers, a telepathic conversation, or classified information? I think the most beckoning question though is based on the part at the end with the pig. He mentioned how they were decoding muscle movements, but that it wasn't the focus of the project, and that in fact they were seeking to create movement. But doesn't the fact that this level of decoding is possible mean that the very information we receive and keep in our minds might eventually be reliably decoded too? It feels like there's so many revolutionary changes in the way we learn, heal, communicate, and experience existence coming from this technology, with both awe-inspiring and terrifying implications that we have probably only begun to imagine.
The opportunities to help those without mobility shows great promise. They already have some brain interfaces now, but this looks smaller and better. The signals basically look like a robust EEG. Getting the signals to actually restore mobility will be the hard part. We can already read brainwaves from the forehead, but much less signal. For the non-disabled it seems like a better idea to focus on VR and AR with brainwave reading capabilities. The things that can go wrong with skull holes and brain strings are vast not to mention hackers that are already prevalent all over the world. Maybe keep it a medical device until the brains are secure. Also, couldn’t an EMP take out a future implanted population?
There is a lot that is impressive about this… but that surgical robot is really something. I work in surgery every day with robots and that robot is absurdly advanced.
So sad when he gets a grip of humanity and we realize we were tricked then we are doomed we are halfway there for the last 2.5 years and 60 years in the making...Sayonara!
we all know it will be misused. look at facebook and any human creation... at first of their presentation, emotion and noble belief... But, at the end... it is misused
Medically, absolutely fascinating progress. Ethically, extremely dubious, and terrifying, and will definitely be used for nefarious purposes after a number of years.
@BlackLivesMatter bro you are talking about your grandads pacemaker probably from the 90s or early 2000s. Most pacemakers can bluetooth and have wifi capabilities for diagnostics. Its not like some obscured technology. If you want to stay clueless thats on you.
Several issues I've already noticed as someone who studies Cognitive Science. 1. The robot inserts the device into the brain. Are the people supposed to sedated? fMRI is already hard enough to get people to sit still, and I don't want to imagine how bloody this gonna be. 2. The robot was designed to insert a quarter-sized chip into the brain. I saw they used a male mannequin, I think that would pretty much guarantee this being a death sentence or especially risky process for women, as they are not the same size as men. 3. Musk said they could restore vision to the congenital/early blind. That's a pretty much useless feat as there are already existing surgeries for some conditions. The issue is that although their vision is restored their brain doesn't know how to interpret the signals.
Now I know what people felt like when they witnessed Edison or Forest inventing the lightbulb and radio. Musk is a name that will be on a list in history books.
Incredible advancement in human technology with scary implications. This seems like something that could be incredibly dangerous, and I suspect it will require an incredible amount of care to prevent this from being used in unintended ways. The sky really seems to be the limit here.
@Khan Ch. how is there no info transferred with entanglement? If a particle is undefined and has no properties (doesn’t exist) before we measure it, how come that by observing it we determine its properties, which directly influence the state of its entangled counterpart on the other side of the universe? I would get that there is no info travel if the states of the particles were already predetermined before we measured them, but we know that is not the case. Or are you saying that space time isn’t fundamental and that reality goes deeper?
it's strange because Elon Musk is warning us about ai. Gues what ai will be able to do if humans have chips implanted in their brains. I mean come on, you can't tell me he didn't think of this.
I get we live in a tough world so this kind of stuff is needed but it can get crueler with this being weaponized and used as a form of control. I just hope this is in the right hands, restoring someone’s vision is on its way to what Gods do
@BlackLivesMatter I imagine by your strong opinion on this that you must be blind. Clearly, only a bind person would be able to comment on such a matter. I would have thought that a lot of blind people would gladly pay a lot of money to have their vision restored, even if there were ongoing costs. But what can I say? I'm not blind, so my opinion is invalid.
Most anything could be used for evil. I understand your concerns but at the same time, it could be said about a lot of things. Cars, Guns, The internet, security cameras, the government, the list goes on. I don't think we as a civilization should fear new tech but we also need to understand that at some point someone WILL try to take advantage of it. Whether that's something small like making it stupid expensive or on a darker note destroying 100s of 1000s of people's lives. This is why we should embrace the advancements but do everything in our power to safeguard the user and bystanders before ever releasing it to the public. I still personally think we are quite a ways from this being something that everyone has in their head. I feel it will stay mostly a medical device for most of our lives. With the exception of some event taking place where people either need to have the device for some unforeseen reason or are forced to.
Scary to think years from now, the concept of doing it by inserting 64 threads directly into the brain will be considered barbaric... Maybe I should hold out until the tech evolves.
I've telling people this! It's going to require someone that is outside the business to lead it too. This is opening up a massive new world and way of life. Eventually, and much sooner than most people realize, we will all have to make a choice. Eventually everyone will become a cyborg and continue to morph into machine or get left behind. And there will be tremendous benefit despite the fears
Imagine the data they could collect on you if you had one of those in!! 😂 that’s insanity. Every thing you see and think about will be sold to companies who want to know everything about you.
In my opinion, this is why Apple made sure to drop any issues they had with Musk. When he announced that he’d make a phone if Apple removed Twitter, yes it was an empty threat, but they knew that, even if it took him a long time (along with a signature Elon delay) and a lot of money, he could make a phone that would blow everyone out of the water. Ironically, Elon’s attempt at controlling AI is only going to accelerate the growth of a decentralised AI network, which I think will lead to superhuman evils of which we cannot imagine.
Elon is not the one who build this technology, he is clueless about it. he just fund the companies and talents that he interested in and make it as if he is the one who create it. Just like what he did with Tesla if they want to, Apple is just as capable to build this kind of stuff, their trillions of dollar is real, not fakes like Elon's "pumped" Trillion dollar Neuralink Cofounder even Invests in Rival company, because the Rival companies just way better way ahead of Neuralink. so, no, Elon is the Loudest one, not the Best one. most of the time he did an absurd claim but can't back it up. his other companies was barely survive, bleeding money, not profitable, and just fade in background, like Solarcity and Boring. unlike Apple who own Multiple winning products in multiple unrelated categories
Is there any other big tech actually doing anything for humanity or is Elon the only one. To think how lives could be vastly different if big tech and business would stay out of politics and just create useful things.
At first I was like “how are they going to know exactly which lower motor neurons to activate amongst a wide group of people”? And then I realized that they are going to have to program it based on the feedback of each human they are putting it in to then program the movements that work most comfortably for the individual. Simply fascinating. Your can kinda see Fourier patterns in the test. This is super fascinating and will only get better and better.
@BlackLivesMatter I didn't think you did. My position is more that there may well be people who are happy to go through with that and who feel their lives have benefited from that option. Everyone else need not opt in and remains no worse off. If the majority of people are in that second category, the venture would flop
@BlackLivesMatter It would suck if someone made you go and get the surgery against your will. If you don't like the option but don't have to pick it, you're in a position no worse off than you were already.
@Wilson ^ This. For the examples given with the pigs, it's just a supervised regression problem to learn the function that translates cortex to spine. Although in patients where the link has already been severed, it will be a little more difficult because you can't simultaneously compare the two. That said, you could just arbitrarily connect cortex neurons to spinal neurons: the brain will quite happily do the learning itself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Rainie B. The job of the artificial neural network is decoupled from whatever system is responsible for stimulating the nerves. There exists a non-linear mapping between the output from the implant and the movement of the leg. We know this relationship exists but we cannot see it with our little human brains. The ANN’s are perfect for fitting this function. (See Non-Linear Function Approximation). It does not need to be Re-programmed (much) because it learns the mapping by itself. You are right in that stimulating the nerves to try and cause a movement can be very dangerous but this job is handled by a completely different system on board the chip (using what the network has learned from it’s training)
Like a lot of other people here this incites a feeling that is mix between total excitement and extreme anxiety. Where will this go, what are the implications? It may seem like a gimmick, or something inconsequential but by rubbing away at that boundary divide between us and our machines we are widening the future and its possibilities.
Given that there won’t be enough ‘clients’ to justify the R&D costs to develop this technology, just think how they will ‘pivot’ to the general population.
For people aware of EEG signals, a task that depends on eye movements like the shown keyboard demo is quite easy to implement as you would get very strong and clear signals from the eye muscles to mark the direction of movement for the mouse. The imaginary tasks that don't involve eye movements are way more challenging to model using brain EEG signals. You could achieve same results with eye movement tracking electrodes placed on the face not inside the brain.
@pr0m0c0de Which is how it should be. No one person can ever master everything. You'll do greater things collaborating with other people. Some people are talented but cant do a lot without guidance or leadership from someone. That someone might not be even be as technically smart as them, but can be good visionaries, or well connected or with lots of resources etc
@Kleiner Most technology is iterative, the key takeaway here is the improvement in miniaturisation, surgical technique and granularity of signal. It's nothing much new in concept, but it's better than what came before. If it keeps getting better eventually it will be considered good enough for early adopters to try out, if that goes well it enters into the mainstream of medical science. If it gets that far, I'd bet we'll see implantable devices explode as a consumer technology... A lot of ifs, but whether Neuralink specifically succeeds or not, I think it's pretty inevitable and these demos are solid indicators of progress in the areas needed to make it viable outside of experimentation and prototypes.
@Ignacio Navarro consumer level wireless implant? No one? because they are all medical devices? on top of being R&D devices that are not authorised for general medical use. reasearch has been done on the topic "Brain-computer interface" since the late 1960s. first humans trials were around the late 1970s. limitations on the number of channels and processing power were likely major factors back then too. but there is one major reason why R&D slowed down significantly. the efficacy of the implant degraded as time went on due to scaring around the electrode so you maybe only get control back for a few years. it will likely be decades till there is any "consumer device" clinical trials take years, getting human test subjects and regulatory approval is also a slow process. we are now maybe only just at the cusp of being able to make this technology that we know should be possible for decades to actually work in the real world. but it all requires money, funding will be hard to come by until someone demos a breakthrough.
#1. This isnt EEG, this is a small internal implant with internal electrodes. #2. You could not achieve the same results with eye movement tracking electrodes on the face as it processes electric signals in the brain for clicking as well, you would have to program an abstraction for that to achieve what you are saying, such as blink=click which then would not be the same as this. #3. You are dumb and ignorant. Please never speak again.
I think a lot of technological advancements are positive but this feels like it's not good at all, maybe for the disabled, but it will obviously be used for nefarious purposes. We're not mature enough to deal with weapons or technology as it is on a collective scale - how will we be mature deal with this so we don't abuse or exploit others? I don't think we're ready. This could easily be our downfall, a tyranny we can never escape.
As a physical therapist, this type of work has the potential to bring tears. The hope that this gives to so many individuals suffering with paralysis, as well as their families, is astounding
@BlackLivesMatter Even though what you are saying is true in its core for most rich and influential people. Looking at this situation in particular, and considering Elon Musk being someone who unbiased is innovatively following his path, regardless of what any party or any group of people say or do against him, makes me think this situation is an exception to your premise. I mean we already have a lot of problems, for which we for years HAVEN'T FOUND a solution into or REFUSE to implement the ways we know to solve them, so not making new steps to find new ways and possibilities CAN be detrimental to us, and because of the peculiar situation we are in as humans, will most likely devolve us rather than moving forward. This technology, as dangerous as it can be, can also be useful. It all depends on the way you use it. But as every other DANGER (Phone, Internet, Networking, People, Government). Choosing our path depends on people's heart.
@@yourewrong1120 You're the one making claims without evidence. Have you ever heard of the burden of proof? The fact that you think I'm required to respond to your every statement and prove you wrong is laughable. It's like me saying Bigfoot exists and its up to you to disprove me.
At our current trajectory, we are heading for a CyberPunk future. High tech, low life. The tech is a big lever. Which direction are we going to head with this though? Will we get over our egos and greed, or will we drown in the data stream? Based on history and current events, it really doesn't look good.
Being able to bridge the gap in a severed spinal column is a thought I've had since about 10 years old, and it makes so much sense, just the technology was lacking.
@BlackLivesMatter Isn't there this old white doctor in Africa doing everyones cataracts for less than a couple of dollars a head? Incredible.... Big Pharma the true enemy.
It's still lacking if it was as simple as attaching a set of new wires from point A to point B it would have been done. Honestly I have more faith in substances isolated derived from stem cells that are used in neuronal growth being used as a sort of repair glue. Either that or seeded cellular scaffolding 3d printed into the damaged area.
@Insert Money I'm a bit late, so sorry about that...if you mean H+ I would agree... ...in other words, 'more' than human is probably more of an accurate description. Therefore, not ultimately (tho' there may be some good aspects to it) a good thing. Their intent towards us, regarding this technology, is certainly not benevolent.
@BlackLivesMatter do you really require a source for every scientist hindered by the Catholic church in history? The list is long. But top of the list is the guy who discovered molecules way before modern scientists did again but was called a heretic and forced to abandon his research.
@BlackLivesMatter Democracy existed before the internet, yes. ANd if we could remove the whole internet from the world everywhere, then yes, I would agree with your statement. My statement with the internet is based on the fact that it already exists. if some people have access to the internet and others dont, then democracy is critically at risk.. So its like saying kings used to rule countries before guns existed therefore its unnecessary for a leader of a country in modern times to have any access to guns in order to stay in power because look at all those leaders who ruled without guns. The problem is now the potential invaders have guns, so you have to have them too if you want to stay in power. Bringing it back to the internet... the technology exists. people are using it to share true information but also lies and propaganda. people are using it to build movements like BLM (which I support) but also using it to fight against those movements. We cant close pandoras box, the internet is here (not to mention AI.. and a bunch of other tech) and if these techs are not given to the people to defend them from corruption then democracy, and a bunch of other stuff like general human rights are at serious risk.
I think to my self would this work on teaching us more about how things like giant trees interact with the outside worl? We could finely know the last thoughts or images before death or slightly after death?🤔 Any data is good data.
WTF I literally had no idea Neuralink had come this far. This is insane. Edit: Damn guys, can I not just be amazed by the tech, and enjoy seeing the advancements in technology that humans make? I don't care who invented this tech first. It's my first time seeing how far it has come. Let me be, lmao 😆
@BlackLivesMatter That would be crazy if they made blind people pay every month to see. I doubt that would happen, there would definitely be many legal problems with that, and I'm pretty sure Elon ain't evil
@alangregory5580 you didn't say you used to be an "Elon fanboy" too, did you? Then no, I wouldn't hit you with the lefty label like I did the Thanos looking dude. My point being the only people who loved him once and now hate him are all LEFT. It all started when he purchased Twitter and shown the world that the left has been actively lying, hiding facts, and working with the FBI to remove a sitting president, create division, and protect the current presidents son's illegal pay for play scheme. I would bet all I own or my very life that he is a leftist and I would win guaranteed.
Dude this is actually so amazing, I hope whenever human trials happens we are able to make way more breakthroughs in this tech because the possibilities seem endless
This is truly mind blowing. Would’ve never imagined this high level of technology has achieved in today’s world. I think I won’t see those sci-fi as “too” imaginative anymore. Scientists are amazing!
@Harper Ho I don't think it is unfair even an MRI can't get the reading to do what they want to do with the neural link(ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine) and I don't think the sensors they are implanting are anyway close to the amount of data an MRI gets
@jonnym umm I think it’s more complicated than what you described and it’s kinda unfair to dismiss the hard work that our scientists have been putting into this.
This is going to go nowhere. An inferior device like this could not possibly comprehend the vastness of the brain, over a 100 billion neurons that individually make thousands of connections with each other. More connections than the amount of atoms in the universe. All this is doing is activating a tiny fraction that compares to a single drop of water in the ocean. It will never establish control over the brain to do actions as complex as walking. The brain changes and grows. Making new connections, the link does not. Our brains are billions of years in the making, imagine someone working on something for billions of years. Everything about the brain is thought of to collectively work together. This device is not part of the brain and will cause problems in the future
@Renovatio2142 only since the industrial revolution, the middle ages folks had it worse, you were borned, harvested some crops, and then died. That for hundreds of generations
Just think about how much hope this gives ppl with disabilities, the amount of ppl this technology will help and the amount of happines/joy it will give to the world is mind blowing. Then you have weirdo liberals/leftist out there that seriously hate Elon with a passion it’s completely insane, even some that wish death on him all over politics , it’s just sad really. He has done nothing but use his pull to bring smart motivated ppl together to do great things for humanity and yet these politicians have some ppl so brainwashed that they are almost demons and despise anything shining a light into the darkness.
Me watching seriously My 6 year old cousin : what is this? Me: it's a mind control machine Cousin: is he a super villain who can make people walk and control people's mind??
I love the idea of restoring peoples vision but I want to play games with my mind. I’ve always thought of only I could control every movement with my mind. Crazy
People slowly being taught what to think, making choices because they were moved to, now they’ll have a decision that their already programmed accept, to fully give up their minds.. Scary times
It’s neat to see these, but all I can think of is: - What if you damage the brain or spinal cord - What if someone can hack the system itself - What if the system doesn’t operate as it should (knee bends forward 90 degrees instead of backwards 90 degrees - What are the long term effects, if any - How durable is the material and how can one get “a replacement” if it’s damaged (say a car accident) - Speaking of damage during an accident, what would happen to the actual links I don’t know... I just don’t see why this makes much, if any, actual real life logic. Some may benefit, sure, but others may get it like they do a new phone every year or two: it’s not needed, they just do it because it’s the top tech. I doubt I’d ever use this myself, coming from a catastrophic brain injury myself, I know how delicate the brain is and what tampering with it the wrong way can lead too.
You're absolutely right they aren't anywhere close to long term safe usage or achieving what he claims. Neurons use very precise potassium and sodium ion exchange of electrical potential in channels in a complex way to create a neural network. That's essentially nanoscale work... but trust us yes we don't have nanotech devices we're just going to sew some wires in and apply current ok 😅
That clip with the pig's leg muscles contracting is so mind blowing to me, and the fact that they can stimulate different muscle groups is so so cool. Imagine what this could do for paraplegics or even quadriplegics. Truly fascinating stuff!
When Elon connects himself to NeuroLink and merges his conscious into an AI construct so we can enjoy his stupidity forever. I'll give this channel a thumbs up.
I've never even imagined walking again.... After you lose anything, you adapt. I didn't think it would be in my lifetime that I would see someone commit time and money towards a solution. After you've sorted the kinks out I'll be second in line 👍🏽😁🤞🏽❤
Hello @The Truth "More connections than the amount of atoms in the universe." is a self contradicting statement given the every connection require atoms and each brain is part of the universe.
This is going to go nowhere. An inferior device like this could not possibly comprehend the vastness of the brain, over a 100 billion neurons that individually make thousands of connections with each other. More connections than the amount of atoms in the universe. All this is doing is activating a tiny fraction that compares to a single drop of water in the ocean. It will never establish control over the brain to do actions as complex as walking. The brain changes and grows. Making new connections, the link does not. Our brains are billions of years in the making, imagine someone working on something for billions of years. Everything about the brain is thought of to collectively work together. This device is not part of the brain and will cause problems in the future
@Acidic Videos Let's just put things in perspective: A piece of brain tissue the size of a grain of sand contains 100,000 neurons and 1 billion synapses. The human brain contains about 100 billion neurons and many more neuroglia which serve to support and protect the neurons. Each neuron may be connected to up to 10,000 other neurons, passing signals to each other via as many as 1,000 trillion synapses. Wiring into the brain... I believe they quoted 64 threads every 50mins. 1000 threads for a theoretical grainy 1000 dot image. Forget reading. Forget watching TV. A 50" TV has around 8million pixels. Just listen to the whoopers and clappers cheering BS statements. It's all in the video... "We believe" "Maybe" "Might" "Possibly" 64 threads is a quite specific and interesting number. What's next? ...the 128bit version. 😆 It's a joke right! 🤣
These technologies have been around for a while. Stephen Hawking used something similar. Musk is Imo taking it to an advanced level and introducing new functionality.
Just like bombs, knives and poisons, things we create could be put into good use, and could be used wrongly. Technology itself is not the issue, human behavior is. And I'm looking forward to this incredible technology that could one day bring great benefit to the society. Keep up the great work.
none of those things compare to this even remotely. Enjoy having your brain chipped and branded by elon. There will be humans and there will be devices used by elon.
This has shown me that we are way closer to full dive VR than I thought. We already have ideas for how to input visual data. And, we have a method for inputting signals into nerves for muscle movement which I imagine would also be possible to intercept signals to put into a machine.
So there showing you that they will control body function, thoughts, and emotions and you will willingly embrace it Bc most don’t even see anything wrong with this, what a world🤦♂️
This is going to go nowhere. An inferior device like this could not possibly comprehend the vastness of the brain, over a 100 billion neurons that individually make thousands of connections with each other. More connections than the amount of atoms in the universe. All this is doing is activating a tiny fraction that compares to a single drop of water in the ocean. It will never establish control over the brain to do actions as complex as walking. The brain changes and grows. Making new connections, the link does not. Our brains are billions of years in the making, imagine someone working on something for billions of years. Everything about the brain is thought of to collectively work together. This device is not part of the brain and will cause problems in the future
When my Grandpa seen my first cell phone (a flip phone) he said, “what a time to be alive” More than a decade later and we have this.. It’s crazy how much we are advancing technologically
@Joël can we stop looking at this so deeply and see things in a simple matter? In our human evolution or life span the things we made/created were slow progress if you compare that to technology, it has mostly come to a faster evolution than all our previous inventions, just for AI as an example, I don't understand how someone can be like oh yeah its just 0100101 when one day it could literally wipe us out if we're not careful
@Rayane Kemmoun No no he is right, at the end of the day everything is made from elements, we just arrange them differently since a few million years but we never really made progress
must be such an interesting thing to learn . Would Nearalink cure floaters in eyes and other types of eye injuries and diseases ? I think this is amazing . Hopefully it all works out fine
Okay, as a species we are making incredible work! We shall carry on, And realize that the planetary bodies show signs of adjustment, long-term, and the fun game should be known with all. That's how the real game starts, IMO. LOVE CAN BE OBJECTIVE.
We still have not yet managed to get to perfect electronic circuits like electrons from outerspace can still cause a transistor to make a wrong descision and they are connecting these circuits to human brains directly think about if one transistor makes a wrong decision it can result into death or it might damage other cells in the brain causing permanent thinking disability or malfunction.This is terrifying.
I am still sceptic about security. It is not big deal with few people having this but imagine if lets say 30% of western world will be using this technology. Exploits could be devastating.
Elon deserves a noble peace prize. This man is the future of the entire planet. One man. His ideas and companies are the first steps to us becoming immortal. Insane.
This is absolutely fascinating. Insanely powerful inventions will come out of this technology. It looks like they have a major focus on safety of insertion which seems to be the main safety concern with the implant, which is great to see! I'm sure it's a trivial application in comparison to giving a blind person vision and allowing paralysed people to move again, but I'm still most excited to see full-dive VR technology coming closer and closer!
As a veteran PCVR user (3000 hours) I think this is unrealistic to think of full-dive VR in our or the next generations, just enjoy your current VR headsets, they won't be outdated anytime soon
Na life will get more exciting once we all start seeing the impossible happen, life can be predictable hence why it's easy to form stereotypes. I'm talking about not being limited by the cards we are given. Hence why I'm glad you mentioned VR, we could be any character we want and meet the woman of our dreams without rejection even being an option, or hack someone into being intimate with us under the influence of these powerful tools, sounds quite scary
A Technological breakthrough like this is crazy, but humans are flawed creatures, without a code of ethics on how this technology is treated it could end in a disaster. Will musk sell the technology and products to national health services who them provide them to patients for free or will this be a product that is sold directly from musks company to the consumer who then go to private hospitals to get it installed ?
Very exciting developments being made, i don't know how accurate whats been presented here is to reality and time tables. However the fact that a major billionaire is backing the development makes me hopeful for the development of brain computer interfaces and the resulting medical technology.
and to think, when biden praised all the automotive manufacturers about their ventures into the EV market, he left Tesla out of the conversation. You need to ask the question, why was that?
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Don't get me wrong, this is a wonderful advancement that could help a lot of people, but at the same time, it feels like the backstory to a dystopian novel.
@nunyuh Not trying to be rude. Please spell Bible with a capital B.
Yes the bible
@Adriana Adnan Yeah, they say they can make the blind see. Being blind is better then that. I agree about the last part too. If i were dead i would not want to have this thing in me.
@Adriana Adnan you are not wrong, however i would love to be brought back from the dead with technology.
You are not wrong. I will never buy neuralink. Never. Not even if I died and it could bring me back to life. Never.
Couldn't this also potentially determine if a coma patient is conscious of their surroundings while comatose or that brain activity exists while they are comatose and have the possibility to recover?
With the family's consent to install the device of course
What exactly is being in the state of consciousness? How do you measure it?
@BlackLivesMatter I mean…we’re not talking about brain dead patients. There isn’t a plug to pull. You just feed them and bathe them and hope they wake up one day.
@steven G it can still be used to communicate with the patient after brain activity was determined with the fmri scan
People have been able to scan for brain activity since the 90s dude. you don't need to drill into someones head.
there are already devices that pick up brain activity (lot less invasive and easy to use/cheaper as well) and i think they are already being used for this purpose, its not what the neuralink was meant to do.
Well here's likely to be the major issue with this tech... The brain mapping isn't very likely to be the same for each person. Thus would likely have to be "discovered" and mapped for each individual.
Beyond this the issue the tech could be used in some really dark ways, effectively turning someone into a slave without them realizing what they are really doing. After all, our perception is our reality. Control what people experience, then you can control their both their thought and actions.
And you know why he wanted to own Twitter.
@BlackLivesMatter what part are you saying what to?
@BlackLivesMatter To the blind or people who are paralyzed? It is quite good. At least they would have a choice.
@BlackLivesMatter imo, why someone does something good doesn’t matter. Ego, money, pride, etc etc. all that matters is that something good happened.
@BlackLivesMatter So if you lost your sight tomorrow, you would rather stay blind?
This is just mind blowing... can't believe this is becoming a reality.
@Ed John lol you say that I bet you he’s ready to start right now. I say within ten year maybe sooner but this is definitely happening In are life time
This is just a first world thingy lol.
@cxrt i weep for the future daily
Not gona happen any time soon
@mr loqqe Why are you bothered by my comment? My life is amazing and I love it, I’d also love to see the huge futuristic like advancements we will make in my life time. No need to even reply to my comment
To be able to see through this advice basically means that you can see everything you project through it. So you could literally watch movies in first person or be able to access the Internet inside your brain. Virtual Reality is getting an upgrade
Or, it could show you an unskipable ad that takes up your entire field of view and becomes your reality for as long as the advertiser wants.
This is the stuff they talked about in the book for Ready Player One (not the movie) and Ready Player Two. Hopefully we at least end up with SAO. Lofl
Sooo SAO
i was thinking the same thing
So just imagine NeuroLink is a subscription-based service and you miss a month and they turn off your legs
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha yes £1.25p to activate the the part of your mind where you understand banter I love it. Elon turn my legs on I'm sorry I missed a payment. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂so true.
@pinkman I agree
@Jay •TX bro wants people to stay blind
@What was that??? the guys whos watched too much fiction
So I probably have no idea what I'm talking about but I have a few open-ended questions based on what the second speaker mentioned about stimulating neurons with a controlled electric current to communicate an image to the part of the brain associated with sight.
Couldn't you then, if you can find the right spots on the brain for the inputs, communicate/simulate any and every sensation?
Could any sight, hearing, scent, taste, touch be felt if you just have the right electrical current lighting up the right neurons in the right way?
And even further beyond that, could, you use these same electrical currents, which can carry information like images, and use them to send other types of information, like the entire contents of books or test answers, a telepathic conversation, or classified information?
I think the most beckoning question though is based on the part at the end with the pig. He mentioned how they were decoding muscle movements, but that it wasn't the focus of the project, and that in fact they were seeking to create movement. But doesn't the fact that this level of decoding is possible mean that the very information we receive and keep in our minds might eventually be reliably decoded too?
It feels like there's so many revolutionary changes in the way we learn, heal, communicate, and experience existence coming from this technology, with both awe-inspiring and terrifying implications that we have probably only begun to imagine.
The opportunities to help those without mobility shows great promise. They already have some brain interfaces now, but this looks smaller and better. The signals basically look like a robust EEG. Getting the signals to actually restore mobility will be the hard part. We can already read brainwaves from the forehead, but much less signal. For the non-disabled it seems like a better idea to focus on VR and AR with brainwave reading capabilities. The things that can go wrong with skull holes and brain strings are vast not to mention hackers that are already prevalent all over the world. Maybe keep it a medical device until the brains are secure. Also, couldn’t an EMP take out a future implanted population?
There is a lot that is impressive about this… but that surgical robot is really something. I work in surgery every day with robots and that robot is absurdly advanced.
The neuralink is pretty fascinating and amazing unless it is misused.
So sad when he gets a grip of humanity and we realize we were tricked then we are doomed we are halfway there for the last 2.5 years and 60 years in the making...Sayonara!
@Muhammad SyahmiHumans are just naturally evil. Especially puppets like Elong. Lol 💩
we all know it will be misused. look at facebook and any human creation... at first of their presentation, emotion and noble belief... But, at the end... it is misused
Medically, absolutely fascinating progress.
Ethically, extremely dubious, and terrifying, and will definitely be used for nefarious purposes after a number of years.
@BlackLivesMatter lmao ok clown
@BlackLivesMatter bro you are talking about your grandads pacemaker probably from the 90s or early 2000s. Most pacemakers can bluetooth and have wifi capabilities for diagnostics. Its not like some obscured technology. If you want to stay clueless thats on you.
@BlackLivesMatter quick google search will tell you everything.
@BlackLivesMatter Yes, pacemakera can connect to the internet.
Just as any new tech is used
Mapping the brain, incredible. This is just the beginning. The caveman carving the first wheel.
Several issues I've already noticed as someone who studies Cognitive Science.
1. The robot inserts the device into the brain. Are the people supposed to sedated? fMRI is already hard enough to get people to sit still, and I don't want to imagine how bloody this gonna be.
2. The robot was designed to insert a quarter-sized chip into the brain.
I saw they used a male mannequin, I think that would pretty much guarantee this being a death sentence or especially risky process for women, as they are not the same size as men.
3. Musk said they could restore vision to the congenital/early blind.
That's a pretty much useless feat as there are already existing surgeries for some conditions. The issue is that although their vision is restored their brain doesn't know how to interpret the signals.
Wow, amazing I Wana see it's full potential when it's fully completed 😍🤩🤑🤑
Now I know what people felt like when they witnessed Edison or Forest inventing the lightbulb and radio. Musk is a name that will be on a list in history books.
Incredible advancement in human technology with scary implications. This seems like something that could be incredibly dangerous, and I suspect it will require an incredible amount of care to prevent this from being used in unintended ways. The sky really seems to be the limit here.
People complain about new technology all the time, they never realise how stupid they look when people have easier lives because of the tech.
@Yanick i mean, you could theoretically travel faster than the speed of light, just not faster
Won't be used to help handicapped but to enslave us
@Khan Ch. how is there no info transferred with entanglement? If a particle is undefined and has no properties (doesn’t exist) before we measure it, how come that by observing it we determine its properties, which directly influence the state of its entangled counterpart on the other side of the universe? I would get that there is no info travel if the states of the particles were already predetermined before we measured them, but we know that is not the case. Or are you saying that space time isn’t fundamental and that reality goes deeper?
it's strange because Elon Musk is warning us about ai. Gues what ai will be able to do if humans have chips implanted in their brains. I mean come on, you can't tell me he didn't think of this.
Thank you Mr Elon Musk and team 🎉❤
I get we live in a tough world so this kind of stuff is needed but it can get crueler with this being weaponized and used as a form of control. I just hope this is in the right hands, restoring someone’s vision is on its way to what Gods do
@BlackLivesMatter but you're not blind, let people who are blind decide what they do or do not want.
@BlackLivesMatter I imagine by your strong opinion on this that you must be blind. Clearly, only a bind person would be able to comment on such a matter. I would have thought that a lot of blind people would gladly pay a lot of money to have their vision restored, even if there were ongoing costs. But what can I say? I'm not blind, so my opinion is invalid.
@BlackLivesMatter right, well that was 2000 years ago. Not much use for people who can't see today.
Or, more to the point, what gods don't do.
Most anything could be used for evil. I understand your concerns but at the same time, it could be said about a lot of things. Cars, Guns, The internet, security cameras, the government, the list goes on. I don't think we as a civilization should fear new tech but we also need to understand that at some point someone WILL try to take advantage of it. Whether that's something small like making it stupid expensive or on a darker note destroying 100s of 1000s of people's lives. This is why we should embrace the advancements but do everything in our power to safeguard the user and bystanders before ever releasing it to the public. I still personally think we are quite a ways from this being something that everyone has in their head. I feel it will stay mostly a medical device for most of our lives. With the exception of some event taking place where people either need to have the device for some unforeseen reason or are forced to.
Musk is right about AI- for it to stay aligned to us or to have a chance against a pure AI antagonist, it must be human-foundational.
Scary to think years from now, the concept of doing it by inserting 64 threads directly into the brain will be considered barbaric... Maybe I should hold out until the tech evolves.
"Quick decision maker on the fruit front" - Elon has really grown on me over the last 3-4 years or so.
A universal code of conduct needs to be created for these technologies.
I've telling people this! It's going to require someone that is outside the business to lead it too. This is opening up a massive new world and way of life. Eventually, and much sooner than most people realize, we will all have to make a choice. Eventually everyone will become a cyborg and continue to morph into machine or get left behind. And there will be tremendous benefit despite the fears
The age of the super villains have begun… we are going to see a real life doctor octopus soon walking around town
Considering this is the only company doing this, what good would that do?
Good luck trying to get selfish humans to adhere to a code of conduct
@Eat N Play that was always the plan, he discussed his roadmap on the podcast. Handicaps first, then much later, telepathy and instant information.
Imagine the data they could collect on you if you had one of those in!! 😂 that’s insanity. Every thing you see and think about will be sold to companies who want to know everything about you.
In my opinion, this is why Apple made sure to drop any issues they had with Musk. When he announced that he’d make a phone if Apple removed Twitter, yes it was an empty threat, but they knew that, even if it took him a long time (along with a signature Elon delay) and a lot of money, he could make a phone that would blow everyone out of the water. Ironically, Elon’s attempt at controlling AI is only going to accelerate the growth of a decentralised AI network, which I think will lead to superhuman evils of which we cannot imagine.
Elon is not the one who build this technology, he is clueless about it.
he just fund the companies and talents that he interested in and make it as if he is the one who create it.
Just like what he did with Tesla
if they want to, Apple is just as capable to build this kind of stuff,
their trillions of dollar is real, not fakes like Elon's "pumped" Trillion dollar
Neuralink Cofounder even Invests in Rival company, because the Rival companies just
way better way ahead of Neuralink.
so, no, Elon is the Loudest one, not the Best one.
most of the time he did an absurd claim but can't back it up.
his other companies was barely survive, bleeding money, not profitable, and just fade in background, like Solarcity and Boring.
unlike Apple who own Multiple winning products in multiple unrelated categories
I've been reading about this for around 30 years or so. The technology is what's finally catching up.
@Juan money
Same. I’ve been reading this for 89 years now and it’s finally catching up. Crazy.
@Kellie Lienne you didn't have to do the guy like that
No
@Kevin stop posting yt comments and smelling your own farts in your mother's basement
People from the 1950’s: I thought we’d have flying cars by now
This is cool for something that'll be available 20 years from now
Is there any other big tech actually doing anything for humanity or is Elon the only one. To think how lives could be vastly different if big tech and business would stay out of politics and just create useful things.
Amazing. Imagine how many blind or partially paralyzed people will be healed by this technology. Just 100 years ago a simple root canal was fatal.
At first I was like “how are they going to know exactly which lower motor neurons to activate amongst a wide group of people”? And then I realized that they are going to have to program it based on the feedback of each human they are putting it in to then program the movements that work most comfortably for the individual. Simply fascinating. Your can kinda see Fourier patterns in the test. This is super fascinating and will only get better and better.
@BlackLivesMatter I didn't think you did. My position is more that there may well be people who are happy to go through with that and who feel their lives have benefited from that option. Everyone else need not opt in and remains no worse off. If the majority of people are in that second category, the venture would flop
@BlackLivesMatter It would suck if someone made you go and get the surgery against your will. If you don't like the option but don't have to pick it, you're in a position no worse off than you were already.
@BlackLivesMatter so don't pay the subscription...? In that scenario nobody has lost out because people have just gained options
@Wilson ^ This.
For the examples given with the pigs, it's just a supervised regression problem to learn the function that translates cortex to spine.
Although in patients where the link has already been severed, it will be a little more difficult because you can't simultaneously compare the two. That said, you could just arbitrarily connect cortex neurons to spinal neurons: the brain will quite happily do the learning itself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Rainie B. The job of the artificial neural network is decoupled from whatever system is responsible for stimulating the nerves.
There exists a non-linear mapping between the output from the implant and the movement of the leg.
We know this relationship exists but we cannot see it with our little human brains. The ANN’s are perfect for fitting this function. (See Non-Linear Function Approximation). It does not need to be Re-programmed (much) because it learns the mapping by itself.
You are right in that stimulating the nerves to try and cause a movement can be very dangerous but this job is handled by a completely different system on board the chip (using what the network has learned from it’s training)
How do you think Elon Musk can tweet all day and do heaps of other stuff he's def linked up
Like a lot of other people here this incites a feeling that is mix between total excitement and extreme anxiety. Where will this go, what are the implications? It may seem like a gimmick, or something inconsequential but by rubbing away at that boundary divide between us and our machines we are widening the future and its possibilities.
Given that there won’t be enough ‘clients’ to justify the R&D costs to develop this technology, just think how they will ‘pivot’ to the general population.
Mind boggling, great for the people who need it. Imagine you are paralyzed and not able to communicate in any way.
For people aware of EEG signals, a task that depends on eye movements like the shown keyboard demo is quite easy to implement as you would get very strong and clear signals from the eye muscles to mark the direction of movement for the mouse. The imaginary tasks that don't involve eye movements are way more challenging to model using brain EEG signals. You could achieve same results with eye movement tracking electrodes placed on the face not inside the brain.
@pr0m0c0de Which is how it should be. No one person can ever master everything. You'll do greater things collaborating with other people. Some people are talented but cant do a lot without guidance or leadership from someone. That someone might not be even be as technically smart as them, but can be good visionaries, or well connected or with lots of resources etc
@BladeTrain3r I'm sure we're going to see many "implantable devices explode as a consumer technology" just like we did Teslas
@Kleiner Most technology is iterative, the key takeaway here is the improvement in miniaturisation, surgical technique and granularity of signal.
It's nothing much new in concept, but it's better than what came before. If it keeps getting better eventually it will be considered good enough for early adopters to try out, if that goes well it enters into the mainstream of medical science. If it gets that far, I'd bet we'll see implantable devices explode as a consumer technology...
A lot of ifs, but whether Neuralink specifically succeeds or not, I think it's pretty inevitable and these demos are solid indicators of progress in the areas needed to make it viable outside of experimentation and prototypes.
@Ignacio Navarro consumer level wireless implant? No one? because they are all medical devices? on top of being R&D devices that are not authorised for general medical use. reasearch has been done on the topic "Brain-computer interface" since the late 1960s. first humans trials were around the late 1970s. limitations on the number of channels and processing power were likely major factors back then too. but there is one major reason why R&D slowed down significantly. the efficacy of the implant degraded as time went on due to scaring around the electrode so you maybe only get control back for a few years. it will likely be decades till there is any "consumer device" clinical trials take years, getting human test subjects and regulatory approval is also a slow process. we are now maybe only just at the cusp of being able to make this technology that we know should be possible for decades to actually work in the real world. but it all requires money, funding will be hard to come by until someone demos a breakthrough.
#1. This isnt EEG, this is a small internal implant with internal electrodes. #2. You could not achieve the same results with eye movement tracking electrodes on the face as it processes electric signals in the brain for clicking as well, you would have to program an abstraction for that to achieve what you are saying, such as blink=click which then would not be the same as this. #3. You are dumb and ignorant. Please never speak again.
This is just amazing
I think a lot of technological advancements are positive but this feels like it's not good at all, maybe for the disabled, but it will obviously be used for nefarious purposes. We're not mature enough to deal with weapons or technology as it is on a collective scale - how will we be mature deal with this so we don't abuse or exploit others? I don't think we're ready. This could easily be our downfall, a tyranny we can never escape.
Absolutely incredible
Absolutely beautiful idea...
As a physical therapist, this type of work has the potential to bring tears. The hope that this gives to so many individuals suffering with paralysis, as well as their families, is astounding
@BlackLivesMatter Even though what you are saying is true in its core for most rich and influential people. Looking at this situation in particular, and considering Elon Musk being someone who unbiased is innovatively following his path, regardless of what any party or any group of people say or do against him, makes me think this situation is an exception to your premise.
I mean we already have a lot of problems, for which we for years HAVEN'T FOUND a solution into or REFUSE to implement the ways we know to solve them, so not making new steps to find new ways and possibilities CAN be detrimental to us, and because of the peculiar situation we are in as humans, will most likely devolve us rather than moving forward.
This technology, as dangerous as it can be, can also be useful.
It all depends on the way you use it.
But as every other DANGER (Phone, Internet, Networking, People, Government). Choosing our path depends on people's heart.
@BlackLivesMatter yeah that sounds horrible. Good thing if wont be anything like that
@BlackLivesMatter I guess you can think and speculate all you want. We wont know what really happens until it happens
@@yourewrong1120 what claim did I make?
@@yourewrong1120 You're the one making claims without evidence. Have you ever heard of the burden of proof? The fact that you think I'm required to respond to your every statement and prove you wrong is laughable. It's like me saying Bigfoot exists and its up to you to disprove me.
At our current trajectory, we are heading for a CyberPunk future. High tech, low life.
The tech is a big lever. Which direction are we going to head with this though? Will we get over our egos and greed, or will we drown in the data stream?
Based on history and current events, it really doesn't look good.
wow what a amazingly scary thing. This is a incredible feat of humanity!
Being able to bridge the gap in a severed spinal column is a thought I've had since about 10 years old, and it makes so much sense, just the technology was lacking.
@BlackLivesMatter Isn't there this old white doctor in Africa doing everyones cataracts for less than a couple of dollars a head? Incredible.... Big Pharma the true enemy.
@Fireteam Omega yeah the wireless bridge seems very plausible to me. Can't wait to see it developed
It's still lacking if it was as simple as attaching a set of new wires from point A to point B it would have been done. Honestly I have more faith in substances isolated derived from stem cells that are used in neuronal growth being used as a sort of repair glue. Either that or seeded cellular scaffolding 3d printed into the damaged area.
Can't wait for this tech!
@Spiritual Wisdom okey
this is unwise.
This is both exciting and extremely scary at the same time.
@Insert Money I'm a bit late, so sorry about that...if you mean H+ I would agree...
...in other words, 'more' than human is probably more of an accurate description.
Therefore, not ultimately (tho' there may be some good aspects to it) a good thing.
Their intent towards us, regarding this technology, is certainly not benevolent.
Your gonna have this on your brain and somebodies gonna hack your brain and listen to you
@BlackLivesMatter do you really require a source for every scientist hindered by the Catholic church in history? The list is long. But top of the list is the guy who discovered molecules way before modern scientists did again but was called a heretic and forced to abandon his research.
@BlackLivesMatter I reckon your opinion would change if you were blind xD
@BlackLivesMatter Democracy existed before the internet, yes.
ANd if we could remove the whole internet from the world everywhere, then yes, I would agree with your statement.
My statement with the internet is based on the fact that it already exists. if some people have access to the internet and others dont, then democracy is critically at risk..
So its like saying kings used to rule countries before guns existed therefore its unnecessary for a leader of a country in modern times to have any access to guns in order to stay in power because look at all those leaders who ruled without guns.
The problem is now the potential invaders have guns, so you have to have them too if you want to stay in power.
Bringing it back to the internet... the technology exists. people are using it to share true information but also lies and propaganda. people are using it to build movements like BLM (which I support) but also using it to fight against those movements.
We cant close pandoras box, the internet is here (not to mention AI.. and a bunch of other tech) and if these techs are not given to the people to defend them from corruption then democracy, and a bunch of other stuff like general human rights are at serious risk.
Damn I kinda want to be their human subject for experiment
me too. if you figure out where to apply, let me know
I think to my self would this work on teaching us more about how things like giant trees interact with the outside worl? We could finely know the last thoughts or images before death or slightly after death?🤔
Any data is good data.
Imagine missing work because you need a firmware update
Wow this is amazinggggg! Brilliant!
WTF I literally had no idea Neuralink had come this far. This is insane.
Edit: Damn guys, can I not just be amazed by the tech, and enjoy seeing the advancements in technology that humans make? I don't care who invented this tech first. It's my first time seeing how far it has come. Let me be, lmao 😆
@BlackLivesMatter That would be crazy if they made blind people pay every month to see. I doubt that would happen, there would definitely be many legal problems with that, and I'm pretty sure Elon ain't evil
@The Saint of Hope No one is to be trusted, that's not some billionaire specific trait
@alangregory5580 you didn't say you used to be an "Elon fanboy" too, did you? Then no, I wouldn't hit you with the lefty label like I did the Thanos looking dude. My point being the only people who loved him once and now hate him are all LEFT. It all started when he purchased Twitter and shown the world that the left has been actively lying, hiding facts, and working with the FBI to remove a sitting president, create division, and protect the current presidents son's illegal pay for play scheme. I would bet all I own or my very life that he is a leftist and I would win guaranteed.
Yeah neurolink is pretty dope
No
Good for Elon Musk!
Dude this is actually so amazing, I hope whenever human trials happens we are able to make way more breakthroughs in this tech because the possibilities seem endless
this is incredible!
That’s kinda crazy, we are entering the next level of evolution, imagine a world where we could fix our bodies to the molecular level.
This is truly mind blowing. Would’ve never imagined this high level of technology has achieved in today’s world. I think I won’t see those sci-fi as “too” imaginative anymore. Scientists are amazing!
@Dank Coder golden
@Harper Ho I don't think it is unfair even an MRI can't get the reading to do what they want to do with the neural link(ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine)
and I don't think the sensors they are implanting are anyway close to the amount of data an MRI gets
@jonnym umm I think it’s more complicated than what you described and it’s kinda unfair to dismiss the hard work that our scientists have been putting into this.
This is going to go nowhere. An inferior device like this could not possibly comprehend the vastness of the brain, over a 100 billion neurons that individually make thousands of connections with each other. More connections than the amount of atoms in the universe. All this is doing is activating a tiny fraction that compares to a single drop of water in the ocean. It will never establish control over the brain to do actions as complex as walking. The brain changes and grows. Making new connections, the link does not. Our brains are billions of years in the making, imagine someone working on something for billions of years. Everything about the brain is thought of to collectively work together. This device is not part of the brain and will cause problems in the future
@Renovatio2142 only since the industrial revolution, the middle ages folks had it worse, you were borned, harvested some crops, and then died. That for hundreds of generations
Just think about how much hope this gives ppl with disabilities, the amount of ppl this technology will help and the amount of happines/joy it will give to the world is mind blowing.
Then you have weirdo liberals/leftist out there that seriously hate Elon with a passion it’s completely insane, even some that wish death on him all over politics , it’s just sad really.
He has done nothing but use his pull to bring smart motivated ppl together to do great things for humanity and yet these politicians have some ppl so brainwashed that they are almost demons and despise anything shining a light into the darkness.
Me watching seriously
My 6 year old cousin : what is this?
Me: it's a mind control machine
Cousin: is he a super villain who can make people walk and control people's mind??
I love the idea of restoring peoples vision but I want to play games with my mind. I’ve always thought of only I could control every movement with my mind. Crazy
If the machines in Matrix would have had this technology Neo would not have escaped so easily.
That's an amazing job done by Miguel Nicolelis!
Thank you, Professor Nicolelis
This is really scary, the impact of this in the world. It would be a revolutionary device that will take your own will…
People slowly being taught what to think, making choices because they were moved to, now they’ll have a decision that their already programmed accept, to fully give up their minds.. Scary times
It’s neat to see these, but all I can think of is:
- What if you damage the brain or spinal cord
- What if someone can hack the system itself
- What if the system doesn’t operate as it should (knee bends forward 90 degrees instead of backwards 90 degrees
- What are the long term effects, if any
- How durable is the material and how can one get “a replacement” if it’s damaged (say a car accident)
- Speaking of damage during an accident, what would happen to the actual links
I don’t know... I just don’t see why this makes much, if any, actual real life logic. Some may benefit, sure, but others may get it like they do a new phone every year or two: it’s not needed, they just do it because it’s the top tech.
I doubt I’d ever use this myself, coming from a catastrophic brain injury myself, I know how delicate the brain is and what tampering with it the wrong way can lead too.
You're absolutely right they aren't anywhere close to long term safe usage or achieving what he claims. Neurons use very precise potassium and sodium ion exchange of electrical potential in channels in a complex way to create a neural network. That's essentially nanoscale work... but trust us yes we don't have nanotech devices we're just going to sew some wires in and apply current ok 😅
That clip with the pig's leg muscles contracting is so mind blowing to me, and the fact that they can stimulate different muscle groups is so so cool. Imagine what this could do for paraplegics or even quadriplegics. Truly fascinating stuff!
@Tim Ogul meat puppets will become obsolete. Drones in the air, drones on land, drones in the sea. That is the future of warfare.
@Game Channel you are a fool
@A he's not saying he wants it, he's warning what this technology could do in the hands of evil
We can really hope that their technology won't be mind-blowing to us.
It is cool but we’ve been able to this for about 30 years
as a kid playing tony hawks underground on the game cube back in the day i couldnt imagine that this is where we’d be in 20 years
When Elon connects himself to NeuroLink and merges his conscious into an AI construct so we can enjoy his stupidity forever. I'll give this channel a thumbs up.
Neuralink the best bio-tech company by 2050.
I’m still upset smartphones exist. Now AI and this?
We can never be left alone
I've never even imagined walking again.... After you lose anything, you adapt. I didn't think it would be in my lifetime that I would see someone commit time and money towards a solution. After you've sorted the kinks out I'll be second in line 👍🏽😁🤞🏽❤
Hello @The Truth "More connections than the amount of atoms in the universe." is a self contradicting statement given the every connection require atoms and each brain is part of the universe.
This is going to go nowhere. An inferior device like this could not possibly comprehend the vastness of the brain, over a 100 billion neurons that individually make thousands of connections with each other. More connections than the amount of atoms in the universe. All this is doing is activating a tiny fraction that compares to a single drop of water in the ocean. It will never establish control over the brain to do actions as complex as walking. The brain changes and grows. Making new connections, the link does not. Our brains are billions of years in the making, imagine someone working on something for billions of years. Everything about the brain is thought of to collectively work together. This device is not part of the brain and will cause problems in the future
@VEGAS 702 He's already a freakshow. He ain't got nothing to lose.
You'd never know that feeling unless you're in his shoes.
@Acidic Videos Let's just put things in perspective:
A piece of brain tissue the size of a grain of sand contains 100,000 neurons and 1 billion synapses.
The human brain contains about 100 billion neurons and many more neuroglia which serve to support and protect the neurons. Each neuron may be connected to up to 10,000 other neurons, passing signals to each other via as many as 1,000 trillion synapses.
Wiring into the brain...
I believe they quoted 64 threads every 50mins. 1000 threads for a theoretical grainy 1000 dot image. Forget reading. Forget watching TV. A 50" TV has around 8million pixels. Just listen to the whoopers and clappers cheering BS statements.
It's all in the video...
"We believe"
"Maybe"
"Might"
"Possibly"
64 threads is a quite specific and interesting number. What's next? ...the 128bit version. 😆
It's a joke right! 🤣
look at the long list of his failures before you put something of his in your brain
These technologies have been around for a while. Stephen Hawking used something similar. Musk is Imo taking it to an advanced level and introducing new functionality.
Just like bombs, knives and poisons, things we create could be put into good use, and could be used wrongly. Technology itself is not the issue, human behavior is. And I'm looking forward to this incredible technology that could one day bring great benefit to the society.
Keep up the great work.
none of those things compare to this even remotely. Enjoy having your brain chipped and branded by elon. There will be humans and there will be devices used by elon.
Imagine this chip being hacked after installation into the Brian😂
The code for the software and the schematics needs to be open source If I were to put that in my head
This has shown me that we are way closer to full dive VR than I thought. We already have ideas for how to input visual data. And, we have a method for inputting signals into nerves for muscle movement which I imagine would also be possible to intercept signals to put into a machine.
@Experimental 2. a quantum computer neural network with trillions of parameters is the simplest blueprint to recreate our reality
@INFINIITY proof?
We're really not THAT close. Elon is really good at hyping and overselling ideas that arent even his own. He is not an innovator. More like a thief.
@kingof206 we’re already in a Simulation
Gaming in the future will be crazy. Gonna transport you right into it the game itself. Call of duty real life modern warfare 4
Remember when he said he was distancing himself from this technology and a.i. and then he fully embraced both?
All a trick using psychology to trick the masses to gain humanity's trust for his agenda...
With the potential this has, it appears that it worth the risks
So there showing you that they will control body function, thoughts, and emotions and you will willingly embrace it Bc most don’t even see anything wrong with this, what a world🤦♂️
This is how it looks like to give a presentation you did 5 minute before lesson and checked once..
This is pretty exciting technology. I hope I live long enough to see major strides in this field.
This is going to go nowhere. An inferior device like this could not possibly comprehend the vastness of the brain, over a 100 billion neurons that individually make thousands of connections with each other. More connections than the amount of atoms in the universe. All this is doing is activating a tiny fraction that compares to a single drop of water in the ocean. It will never establish control over the brain to do actions as complex as walking. The brain changes and grows. Making new connections, the link does not. Our brains are billions of years in the making, imagine someone working on something for billions of years. Everything about the brain is thought of to collectively work together. This device is not part of the brain and will cause problems in the future
Now imagine, that all this data is fed into an AI.
Even just to the internet, would be so amazing
Can Elon make some type of device that helps his speech so he’s not always stuttering
When my Grandpa seen my first cell phone (a flip phone) he said,
“what a time to be alive”
More than a decade later and we have this..
It’s crazy how much we are advancing technologically
@Rayane Kemmoun Hahaha dw see the comment just above I was agreeing with you lol
@Joël bro thank the fuckinf lord, I legit didn't even know u were joking bc he literally speak like that 😭
@Rayane Kemmoun I was obviously joking...
@Joël can we stop looking at this so deeply and see things in a simple matter? In our human evolution or life span the things we made/created were slow progress if you compare that to technology, it has mostly come to a faster evolution than all our previous inventions, just for AI as an example, I don't understand how someone can be like oh yeah its just 0100101 when one day it could literally wipe us out if we're not careful
@Rayane Kemmoun No no he is right, at the end of the day everything is made from elements, we just arrange them differently since a few million years but we never really made progress
What a time to be alive...
Yep can’t wait till my government not only knows what I do but what I think as well :)
Its typical for us as humans to fear this type of technological/neurological synergy. Fear of the unknown. Incredible discovery.
Unknown what do you mean people are scared of their government being able to control their movements and know their thoughts😂
This is what my dreams are made of as a neuroscience student 😍 Thanks elon for inspiring me as always
must be such an interesting thing to learn . Would Nearalink cure floaters in eyes and other types of eye injuries and diseases ? I think this is amazing . Hopefully it all works out fine
Okay, as a species we are making incredible work! We shall carry on,
And realize that the planetary bodies show signs of adjustment, long-term,
and the fun game should be known with all.
That's how the real game starts, IMO. LOVE CAN BE OBJECTIVE.
This a remendous advancement in technology, one that will go down in history.
We still have not yet managed to get to perfect electronic circuits like electrons from outerspace can still cause a transistor to make a wrong descision and they are connecting these circuits to human brains directly think about if one transistor makes a wrong decision it can result into death or it might damage other cells in the brain causing permanent thinking disability or malfunction.This is terrifying.
I am still sceptic about security. It is not big deal with few people having this but imagine if lets say 30% of western world will be using this technology. Exploits could be devastating.
Elon deserves a noble peace prize. This man is the future of the entire planet. One man. His ideas and companies are the first steps to us becoming immortal. Insane.
@Silastvproduction yep pretty soon actually rapid technology will give lots of new names and minds a spotlight
In a few hundred years Elon will be named in the same sentence with the greats such as Tesla, Da Vinci, Newton, Einstein
For somebody that always says AI is becoming dangerous (Elon) sure doesn’t care to apply the same logic to his own work
This is absolutely fascinating. Insanely powerful inventions will come out of this technology. It looks like they have a major focus on safety of insertion which seems to be the main safety concern with the implant, which is great to see! I'm sure it's a trivial application in comparison to giving a blind person vision and allowing paralysed people to move again, but I'm still most excited to see full-dive VR technology coming closer and closer!
As a veteran PCVR user (3000 hours) I think this is unrealistic to think of full-dive VR in our or the next generations, just enjoy your current VR headsets, they won't be outdated anytime soon
Na life will get more exciting once we all start seeing the impossible happen, life can be predictable hence why it's easy to form stereotypes. I'm talking about not being limited by the cards we are given. Hence why I'm glad you mentioned VR, we could be any character we want and meet the woman of our dreams without rejection even being an option, or hack someone into being intimate with us under the influence of these powerful tools, sounds quite scary
@Theo Roche Lol. I think there's plenty excitement in life already. But I welcome more tools to better interact with the technology we create!
@Ian Fincher no it's not. that monkey thing was done a decade ago...
@Ville this is the cutting edge in neuroscience right now. What are you talking about?
I’ve watched enough black mirror to know how this is gonna end
It seems as if Elon is interested in technology and science. If he makes money, it seems secondary.
A Technological breakthrough like this is crazy, but humans are flawed creatures, without a code of ethics on how this technology is treated it could end in a disaster. Will musk sell the technology and products to national health services who them provide them to patients for free or will this be a product that is sold directly from musks company to the consumer who then go to private hospitals to get it installed ?
The AI's, this, immortality, this has a very high chance to be the most important century of human history.
Very exciting developments being made, i don't know how accurate whats been presented here is to reality and time tables. However the fact that a major billionaire is backing the development makes me hopeful for the development of brain computer interfaces and the resulting medical technology.
and to think, when biden praised all the automotive manufacturers about their ventures into the EV market, he left Tesla out of the conversation. You need to ask the question, why was that?
Does Elon practice what he’s going to say before he gets in stage?
Bro why Elon so nervous lmfao he does this all the time