I find the wording weird: The neuralink’s threads have retracted from the brain.
The threads can’t move or disconnect on their own. Neither can brain cells. All that can be measured is a loss of connection.The far more reasonable explanation is that the brain cells at the connection point have died.
Not totally surprising, I feel bad for the person who was in a desperate enough situation to become a con man narcissist’s guinea pig.
It looks like we’re learning the lesson we already learned back when Bill Gates tried to mess around with the education system and faceplanted; just because billionaires made a bunch of money selling a fancy toaster they invented or whatever, doesn’t make them experts on anything else.
I’d sooner put a bullet in my head than something Elon Musk had a hand in.
The Gates Foundation has been working in education for over two decades, and still is
And has produced mostly expensive failures which they simply abandoned.
This is because Bill Gates is just a guy who helped cobble together a computer in his garage with his dad’s money, he doesn’t know jack about education and has repeatedly ignored the advice of experts because it wasn’t what he wanted to try.
We place too much virtue on wealth in this country, just because someone has accumulated a lot of wealth doesn’t mean they should be allowed to tinker with our society and try out ideas they had in a dream or w/e.
Instead they should just pay their taxes.
who helped cobble together a computer in his garage with his dad’s money
And the sold it with his mom’s connections.
To be fair, that article’s only about one of their education initiatives, and they’ve had many
They mention two, but it’s enough to make the point. There’s no justification for Gates to be at the helm, if he wants to help he can donate money to the groups and institutions that actually know what they’re doing or, as I said, just pay his taxes.
There’s no reason for him to be meddling, his ignorance is actually making the money less effective.
Well, I’ve got good news, you can do both at the same time with the patented cyber-bullet! When it implants, it implants 100 percent of the time.
I’m excited to get more cyborg parts especially after laser ablating my eyeballs
The older I get, the more becoming a robot tiger seems like as good a retirement plan as I’m gonna get.
Did the implant eat part of the subject’s brain and then die?
He just lost his free will, nothing to important.
Reaaaaaaaaaally??? Never saw this coming /s
You truly are a genius to realize that developing new technologies often encounter problems and it doesn’t always go smoothly.
Sounds like the brain scanner has dead pixels.
Didn’t it die and they had to pull it out of RFK’s skull?
Sooo, is there like a certain knuckle-cracking sequence to turn it off and on again or what? Lol
This is coming from a company by the same guy who approved the cybertruck.
They just want to get a product out the door no matter the cost.
About a month after surgery the implant started to perform poorly. They tweaked some software settings and now it’s running better than it did before the drop-off for a longer period, based on the actual blog post the story is talking about https://neuralink.com/blog/prime-study-progress-update-user-experience.
This is obviously prototype technology with insane risk. The guy only signed up because he’s paraplegic. It’s not in any way remotely ready for normal humans and probably won’t ever be in our lifetimes. IMO this is like self driving technology, it’s easy to promise the world but hard to actually accomplish what they say.
“Sorry guys, Elon is experiencing technical difficulties, please remain patient while we bugfix his Neuralink and then update it to Evil Overlord OS v0.2 alpha to his Neuralink”
