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Elon Musk's Neuralink Announcement / Conference Friday Aug 28th

CloudNull

Banned
I am implanting 37..... first chance I get.

Literally going to have to charge your brain every night as you sleep. 2020 is wild.
 
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Kadayi

Banned
Neuralink can play Crysis confirmed.

Finally, something can run Crisis

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Still a lot of what-if conceptual stuff than concrete results. Very interesting. I think it will provide great results for the disabled like existing implants but everything else is still fantasy until its not. Doesn't matter anyway, as those pigs will annihilate us all. 🐽
 

Maiden Voyage

Gold™ Member
The applications for these devices are really beyond comprehension. This could be the start of a new revolution not only in terms of biology. The idea of being able to create a work of art in your mind and share with others... Accessing at any one time bits of data related to any topic you can conceive... transferring your neural data from your body to a computer... Inducing a state of euphoria at will... AR without the aide of external eyewear....

This is certainly some time away, but the future potential applications are ones we can't even yet think of. How cool.
 

EviLore

Expansive Ellipses
Staff Member
This was my question, btw. Didn’t get answered:



They mentioned how good their encryption is, but the more significant point of failure would be your smartphone paired to the device, not the over-the-air transmission. You could conceivably control someone’s brain function if you gained access to their smartphone.
 

oagboghi2

Member
This was my question, btw. Didn’t get answered:



They mentioned how good their encryption is, but the more significant point of failure would be your smartphone paired to the device, not the over-the-air transmission. You could conceivably control someone’s brain function if you gained access to their smartphone.

How much control does the device have? I doubt it can like, turn you off.

I got the impression the app is more like car key apps. You can start/stop the car, maybe unlock the door but that's kinda it ( atleast that's it for my mustang)
 

Maiden Voyage

Gold™ Member
Someone from the team mentioned having some of the hardware isolated from being accessed digitally, but it was somewhat unclear to what capacity. Given how early we are into it, I would bet the final consumer / patient product will have much different architecture.

The security concerns remind me so much of the novel Snow Crash.
Within the Metaverse, Hiro is offered a datafile named Snow Crash by a man named Raven who hints that it is a form of narcotic. Hiro's friend and fellow hacker Da5id views a bitmap image contained in the file which causes his computer to crash and Da5id to suffer brain damage in the real world.
 
Regarding security, in the future, Nueralinkers will be wearing tin-foil hats to protect themselves from solar flares, EMP bombs and trolls braincasting conspiracy theories about a flat universe.
 

Tesseract

Banned
Regarding security, in the future, Nueralinkers will be wearing tin-foil hats to protect themselves from solar flares, EMP bombs and trolls braincasting conspiracy theories about a flat universe.
neuralinkers will have consumed the whole of wikipedia and be inoculated against most info bombs
 

nocsi

Member
This was my question, btw. Didn’t get answered:



They mentioned how good their encryption is, but the more significant point of failure would be your smartphone paired to the device, not the over-the-air transmission. You could conceivably control someone’s brain function if you gained access to their smartphone.

Basically in the context of the smartphone, that's outside of their domain and control actually. But the industry is now getting to the standardization of continuous validation and attestation so in your scenario, stakeholders at each layer in the stack would be continually evaluating compromise and severing.
 
Well, this is some wild shit.

So, maybe 20-30 years until we can actually play Sword Art Online?

I dont think itll be that long, you can judge the degrees in which this will expand by how fast the technology can be implemented and the format can be scaled. If this is out the door and being purchased by the medical field within 4-5 years and in that time starts being purchased cheaper by consumers...that will scale rapidly.

I was really hoping they would see if they could expand mental capabilities of the pigs
 

jufonuk

not tag worthy
The chances of this being abused scare me greatly. It’s one thing Playing music into your brain controlling video games with your mind or watching movies in your head. its another having someone figure out how to hack your senses To trick you into all kinds of randomness. Plus the gap it will leave between rich and poor the haves and have nots. Either this or this device is just so underwhelming it’s nothing more than having an Alexa open in your brain. 24/7. Oh wait. What if someone is listening to your thoughts ? Nah I don’t like that.

Technology within itself I’m all for. But the way a lot of companies take information and mine it. I don’t trust of like that.
 
Technology within itself I’m all for. But the way a lot of companies take information and mine it. I don’t trust of like that.
I wonder how they want to solve this?

I have seen videos of people with open skulls being controlled by electrodes without noticing themselves.

Imagine that being done to you via WLAN.
 

Grinchy

Banned
What I find comical about all of this is the idea that even when we can just think of a thing we want to know an answer to, have it searched by the device in our pocket that's wirelessly paired to our brain, and display the results of our curiosity in an AR projection in front of us, people will still find a way to be even more misinformed than they are today.
 
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