"Initial results show promising neuron spike detection," Musk added. Reuters reported earlier this month that Neuralink was fined for violating U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) rules regarding the movement of hazardous materials.
  • Catoblepas
    82·
    11 months ago

    RIP to whoever was desperate enough to try it. Hopefully they don’t die as painfully as the Neuralink monkeys did.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
      33·
      11 months ago

      Imagine offering up your own brain (and probably life) for a beta alpha version of a prototype from a guy who’s products have never left the beta stage?

      As a software engineer myself there are certain things I know I never want to work on. Things like heart pumps and diagnostic machines where firmware needs to be so incredibly precise that one fuckup and people literally die. And these people trust the guy who makes Teslas. They’re fun to drive… I wouldn’t stick one in my brain though.

      • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        I don’t know what it is about Teslas, but everytime my wife and I get in one, we start feeling carsick after a while. It’s only with Teslas too.

        Still, as much as I’d never buy a Tesla, it is a functional car for the most part, and worst case you turn on the hazards and pull over (if the car doesn’t actively try to kill you). A brain implant sounds like an absurdly horrible idea. What’s the best outcome of one of these anyway? Ads playing in your thoughts?

    • garrett@infosec.pubEnglish
      24·
      11 months ago

      Yeah, I don’t like a guy who consistently tries to embody “move fast, break stuff” in the places I least want that to be the case.

    • helenslunch@feddit.nl
      20·
      11 months ago

      You would? I wouldn’t trust anyone to install anything in my body that doesn’t preserve my life. Much less any corporations.

      • 4dpuzzle@beehaw.orgEnglish
        12·
        11 months ago

        What about the ones that do preserve life? Like pacemakers? How long before we see all these anti consumer corporate BS panning out on those?

      • Butterbee (She/Her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        Good rule for life… NEVER let someone cut you open unless it will save your life or drastically improve it. I was thinking along the lines of quadriplegics regaining autonomy than just futurisms. I could get excited about something that gives people their lives back. Would that ever come out of a company run by Musk? I highly doubt it. But if it weren’t him or other tech bros there could be a chance that it could turn into something that helps people.

      • falsem@kbin.social
        1·
        11 months ago

        It’s one of the things that potentially prevent the technological singularity. That’s undoubtedly why the self-important Musk has an interest in it.

    • Moira_Mayhem@beehaw.org
      6·
      11 months ago

      Not me, this will lead to malware installed in the brain.

      You think popups are bad now?

      Wait till you get them in your dreams.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
      15·
      11 months ago

      I have a lot of negative opinions about Steve Jobs - but I admit he was one CEO that would have been so specific about the technology and so determined to get it perfect the first time that I could see him doing it to himself first.

      It’s that same determination that he told himself that he could cure his own cancer.

  • Floon@lemmy.ml
    10·
    11 months ago

    The Other Shoe: the first recipient was Mitch McConnell, and his episodes lately have been during firmware updates.