Neuralink Monkey MindPong

EviLore

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








 
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Not impressed

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