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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

As someone who suffers daily from a traumatic brain injury 5 years ago that's caused me to become physically disabled and cognitively declined, I'm super excited about this.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I'm kinda excited about the technology, but very pessimistic when looking at the way our current technology is used.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But what about the invisible spyware/adware(/mind control???) they'll be putting in without anyone knowing by using threads and components embedded inside the chip?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why should they hide it? They just sell it with ads and everyone who wants one has to endure them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As far as I've understood, these implants never had any sort of display functionality.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brain computer interfaces are an exciting field for helping people with health issues that we currently cannot help with. Nueralink aren't the only business working on them though so if, as seems very likely, they are overhyped and ineffective as a way to chase a good market value for another of Elon Musk's ventures, there will still be other organisations that do better work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Here's an example that popped up in a feed for me just now. An article from a reputable British newspaper about an American organisation (that isn't mismanaged by a self-aggrandizing, lunatic, grifter) successfully implanting chips into a the brain of a man who was paralyzed from the chest down to restore movement and sensation to his limbs.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-brain-chip-paralysed-trial-b2386217.html

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hey, I just realised that the link I shared was a response to my comment not yours and so you may not have seen it.

This is a recent article about a successful brain implant that has been completed by a different organisation to help a paralysed man gain some amount of control of body parts he previously couldn't control. https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-brain-chip-paralysed-trial-b2386217.html