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Elon Musk unveils pig with chip in its brain - Neuralink

Elon Musk has unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain to demonstrate his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.

“It’s kind of like a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires,” the billionaire entrepreneur said on a webcast.

His start-up Neuralink applied to launch human trials last year.

The interface could allow people with neurological conditions to control phones or computers with their mind.

Mr Musk argues such chips could eventually be used to help cure conditions such as dementia, Parkinson’s disease and spinal cord injuries.

Not sure how I feel tbh, I would much prefer testing is not done on animals (or the vulnerable/poor, but so long as no animals were harmed in the lead-up to this :neutral_face:

I guess this kind of tech is something we are going to hear more and more about, and is likely going to be part of the future of humans (/transhumans).

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dimitarvp

dimitarvp

Such kind of tech can never progress unless living beings – animals or humans – get harmed, in big numbers too. It’s inevitable by the virtue of us almost having no clue what we’re doing when it comes to the brain.

AstonJ

AstonJ

Not everyone was impressed…

“I don’t think there was anything revolutionary in the presentation,” he said.

"But they are working through the engineering challenges of placing multiple electrodes into the brain.

"In terms of their technology, 1,024 channels is not that impressive these days, but the electronics to relay them wirelessly is state-of-the-art, and the robotic implantation is nice.

“The biggest challenge is what you do with all this brain data. The demonstrations were actually quite underwhelming in this regard, and didn’t show anything that hasn’t been done before.”

He went on to question why Neuralink’s work was not being published in peer-reviewed papers.

brennan

brennan

Just hoping this will be used for the benefit of mankind

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