Elon Musk's Neuralink company implants brain chip in first human
news.sky.com
The billionaire also revealed the name of his start-up's first product would be 'Telepathy'. The company says its initial goal is to enable people to control a computer cursor or keyboard using their thoughts alone.

Place your bets on how many days they last until they literally jerk it till they rip there own dick off (you know it’s a dude that agreed to get this).

More likely, he’s probably lying.

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    38·
    10 months ago

    The company says its initial goal is to enable people to control a computer cursor or keyboard using their thoughts alone.

    Don’t they already have this with eye tracking for people with disabilities that prevent them from using a mouse or trackball?

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      50·
      10 months ago

      Yes. It’s also been done, like 15 years ago, with invasive brain probes and IIRC with less invasive outside-of-the-skull electronics as well. Just like all the “experiments” neuralink was doing on monkeys was just stuff that had already been done 15 years ago.

      So far neuralink’s entire thing has been trying and mostly failing to do stuff that actual researchers did a long time ago, with tech that’s far behind its competitors. The only question is whether they’re grifting Elon, or if he’s in on the grift and they’ve got other marks.

      • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        22·
        10 months ago

        The only question is whether they’re grifting Elon, or if he’s in on the grift and they’ve got other marks.

        Probably a little bit of both. Elon is definitely trying to grift more federal money (like with SpaceX) to prop up his other vanity bullshit.

    • edge [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      tbf, being able to just think the words is easier than any physical accessibility method.

      otoh, I doubt that’s what Musk’s implant is doing.