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[EviLore]

Monkey with Neuralink implant can play games with an unplugged joystick, or play Pong at a high level entirely with his mind.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Tech to take advantage of will see this in gaming to go along with VR.

 

[ManaByte]

I've seen how this movie ends. It doesn't end well for the humans.

 

[O-N-E]

Imagine trying to deal with an addiction when the brain thought to action time has been cut so drastically.

 

[Halo is Back]

Not impressed

 

[donfonzie]

This is exciting, but terrifying at the same time. Amazing that multiple neuralinks might make a person walk, but what if there's and error in the software, or someone with malicious intent takes over the system?

 

[ManaByte]

This is exciting, but terrifying at the same time. Amazing that multiple neuralinks might make a person walk, but what if there's and error in the software, or someone with malicious intent takes over the system?

Like in the Lawnmower Man?

 

[12Goblins]

that monkey would own me at pong wtf

 

[GaijinZero]

Musk is the last person I'd want putting anything in my head.

 

[KiNeMz]

holy shit. cyberpunk is real.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

To be fair I'm fairly certain I've been playing with neuralink monkeys as randoms in Apex lately.

I wonder how the margin of error and predictive nature of this is e.g. network prediction and latency already get you killed in games. In a instant this algorithm could drastically right or wrong and lack the human ability to override actions in a reflex or cancelling instant. Ok I'll stop babbling now.

 

[EviLore]

Musk is the last person I'd want putting anything in my head.

 

[EviLore]

This is exciting, but terrifying at the same time. Amazing that multiple neuralinks might make a person walk, but what if there's and error in the software, or someone with malicious intent takes over the system?

This is certainly a concern for paralysis patients who would be controlling their body movements via Neuralink routing. There are ways to address this, though, like thinking a set of safe words that lock down the system on a hardware level if something is amiss.

 

[ManaByte]

This is certainly a concern for paralysis patients who would be controlling their body movements via Neuralink routing. There are ways to address this, though, like thinking a set of safe words that lock down the system on a hardware level if something is amiss.

Imagine if Stephen Hawking had this.

 

[EviLore]

Imagine if Stephen Hawking had this.

Yeah. He was pretty damn fast with his eye-tracking typing system. Implanted geniuses communicating and calculating at the speed of thought may create a new divide in the species.

 

[ManaByte]

Yeah. He was pretty damn fast with his eye-tracking typing system. Implanted geniuses communicating and calculating at the speed of thought may create a new divide in the species.

 

[Rentahamster]

Amazing stuff.

I've seen how this movie ends. It doesn't end well for the humans.

Depends on the movie

 

[HoodWinked]

i doubt it's fully mapped to the neural signals. it's probably cheating kind of like autotune. where it is somewhat influenced by the underlying signal but then is auto corrected. the monkey was way too proficient at mind pong.

 

[Kenpachii]

Too easy to fake. Not convinced.

 

[West Texas CEO]

that monkey would own me at pong wtf

you suck at Pong, though

 

[Sevenfold]

We've come a long way since 2006.



Skip to 27 min.

 

[Ballthyrm]

Too easy to fake. Not convinced.

What would be the point of faking it ? It's not like they lack funding...

 

[Ionian]

We've come a long way since 2006.



Skip to 27 min.

LMAO the part after with the "gay bomb", where soldiers start having sex with each other.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

This is really cool. I wonder how deep the mechanics can get before they would lose interest. Dolphins would be an interesting animal to study with this tech.

 

[Ava.parker]

Future has become!

 

[BigBooper]

This feels to me like they must have felt after developing the atomic bomb. What a great, and terrifying future we'll have.

 

[pr0cs]

Usually the pessimist I can't help but be really excited for those people with spinal cord injuries and similar maybe having a chance at a more enhanced life.
There are so many good applications that it's difficult for me to be scared of this just yet.

 

[synchronicity]

As much as I have enjoyed the benefits of technological advancement, I find myself becoming more and more of a Luddite as the story unfolds. Despite any positives that can and do arise, I see a net negative - and a large one - for humanity.

 

[infinitys_7th]

This is the future I've been waiting for. Just hope it fully matures in 30-40 years.

 

[DESTROYA]

 

[eddie4]

new technology available
humans: how can we use it for weird shit

 

[ThatStupidLion]

damn!

they got heroin in that straw?!

 

[FreedomOfSpeech]

I bet this monkey gets to play ps5 before I do.

 

[vpance]

Will wait for the version that can delete covid from the body.

 

[EviLore]

Interview with a recent former Neuralink engineer. Technical but lots of behind-the-scenes details. Timestamped to more interesting bits:







Write capabilities on the electrodes. The biggest thing he's looking forward to is digitizing his consciousness and uploading to the cloud. Also being able to experience the world through other people’s consciousness.

 

[donfonzie]

Like in the Lawnmower Man?

That device seems to be a little different. Neuralink appears to take signals from brain, and convert them into something other machines can understand.

I was thinking could someone trick a device like a home security system to deactivate , or an ATM to give out money, thinking it's being sent a signal by the owners neuralink. Or in case of multiple nlinks in the body, force somebodys muscles into doing what they don't want.